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Survey of London
… Amwell Street and Myddelton Square area in 2005 Almost the entire area around Amwell Street and Myddelton Square belonged historically to the New River Company, whose extensive Clerkenwell estate … up with houses, and eventually disposed of, is related in the preceding chapter, which also discusses the planning and …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… a new Parliament A 1 Seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England, to petition for a New Parliament: Or a List of the Principal Labourers in the Great Design of Popery and Arbitrary Power, who have …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… - Anvil Anacard [anna cardina; anacardium; anacardie] The CASHEW - nut; the fruit of the West Indian tree Anacardium occidentale. Since it was …
A History of the County of Essex
… Compton, Bishop of London, Archbishop Sheldon required the bishop through the various archdeacons, parish clergy, and churchwardens, to … an ecclesiastical census. 1 Compton was to inquire (i) the number of persons 'or at least families' who by 'common …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Isle of Ely Introductory note Introductory Note The Hearth Tax was granted to the Crown as a perpetual revenue in 1662, by Act 14 Car. II … was abolished in 1689, by Act 1 Wm. & Mary c. 10. Broadly the Tax consisted of a halfyearly payment of 1 s. for each …
A History of the County of Essex
… ANALYSIS OF SOME MEDIEVAL TAX ASSESSMENTS: ONGAR HUNDRED The tables below bring together certain statistics derived … from medieval fiscal records. They aim at showing how the places in Ongar hundred compared in wealth and density of settlement with one another and how the whole hundred compared in those respects with other parts …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… The numbers in brackets are the serial numbers of the monuments. ANALYTICAL INDEX Abarough, arms of, see … Aldermen, see Occupations. Alessaundre, William, owner of The Barracks, (258) 118a. All Saints, see Dedications of …
Magna Britannia
… antiquities Ancient Church Architecture. Saxon.Several of the Cornish churches retain traces of Saxon architecture, and some of them exhibit curious specimens of that style: the most considerable remains of this kind are to be seen in the church of St. German's, formerly the cathedral of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… earthworks ANCIENT EARTHWORKS Although earthworks are the most durable of all man's handiwork when exposed to Nature alone, they cannot withstand the encroachments of the builder. With the continual spread of habitations for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ancient Earthworks Introduction Excavation affords the only method of ascertaining the age of most earthworks. Not until the spade has disclosed the evidence which an ancient …