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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… piety; he is said to have written the life of St. John of Beverley and other treatises, and the life of Odo, the first …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… St. Christopher, St. Edward the Confessor, St. John of Beverley, St. Robert and St. Anne and the Virgin, also …
A History of the County of York
… Hall (W.R.), Ouseburn (W.R.), Green Hammerton (W.R.), and Beverley (E.R.), owned tithes in numerous parishes of the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… century Economy Economy Before the end of the 16th century Beverley had successfully claimed remission of taxation … assessments of the 1630s ranked the taxable capacity of Beverley below that of Doncaster and Leeds, 42 and during the … absence of industry. Instead of a predominant manufacture Beverley had a host of small handicrafts and trades, some of …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Affairs, 1642-60 Military and Political Affairs, 1642-60 Beverley was strategically unimportant and was to prove … 24 With tension mounting, the king stayed briefly in Beverley during his attempt to force Sir John Hotham, Bt., … sent to Hull to assist his fellow-member Hotham. Certain Beverley men then hatched a futile plot to undermine Sir …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… of invasion in wartime produced only occasional alarms in Beverley. In 1662 the watch was set as a safeguard against … to provoke government interest in either the security of Beverley or its parliamentary representation. The town … of Jeffreys, the Lord Chief Justice, who had visited Beverley in 1684 and wrote to the corporation on the eve of …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… patrons, and the mildness of religious cross-currents in Beverley may also partly account for the almost complete absence of electoral contests. Beverley thus follows the pattern observed elsewhere in which … Warton (d. 1645), a member of the leading family in Beverley. In the election for the second parliament of 1640 …
A History of the County of York
… expeditions— one to Hull on 23 April, the other to Beverley at the end of July; soon after the latter he …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… made worse by proximity to the busy town and port of Hull. Beverley experienced a severe outbreak in 1604 and 1605. … an outbreak in Hull gave rise to stringent precautions in Beverley: townspeople were forbidden to go to Hull without … or christenings. Those measures were successful, for Beverley was not affected. 63 Precautions, again apparently …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… some of his hearers, and from the 1650s Quakers met in Beverley. 52 In addition to issuing occasional Sabbatarian … Hessle. 55 Among well known puritan clergy who preached in Beverley during the period were three masters of the grammar … until his death in 1658 but had taught and preached in Beverley since the 1620s. James Burney, incumbent at the …