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Magna Britannia
… copper and lead ores will be found described in Woodward's Catalogue of English fossils. The following are the most … bings of lead, the average price being then 5l. 10s. per bing. Though spoken of by this writer as one concern, there … were then worked, perhaps for copper. T. Denton's MS. The bing, which is a provincial term, is 800 weight. In his notes …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… London to Rye. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 15. 10. 2.; net income, 786; patron and incumbent, … E. division of the county of Gloucester, 20 miles (E. by S.) from Gloucester, and 82 (W. N. W.) from London; … by a measure containing 800 cwt. of clear ore, called a "bing," most of the proprietors having smelting-mills. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… As described elsewhere the Chirton estate passed to Durand's great-nephew Miles (cr. earl of Hereford 1141 and d. 1143). Miles's eventual coheirs were his three daughters Margaret, who … to his son Abraham the younger. 51 In 1663 Elizabeth Bing bought the estate from Abraham Chamberlain the younger. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… by prince Edward, afterwards king Edward I. in his father's life-time, anno 35 Henry III. to be held on a Monday … running thence by the town of Eleham, and at half a mile's distance, by the hamlet of North Eleham, where there are … in the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, sold it to Bing, who, before the end of that reign, passed it away to …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Henry III. holding it of the king in capite, as one knight's see. After which, the family of Crombwell became possessed … of Thomas Thatcher, it went in marriage to Mr. Henry Bing, of Wickhambreux, on whose death, his son Mr. John Bing, became possessed of it. He died in 1766, and was buried …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… several of the Martin Cats, the same as those at Hudson's Bay) over which is the extensive tract of wood-land, called … the Herst woods, in which so late as queen Elizabeth's reign, there were many wild swine, with which the whole … of it s. p. in 1792, and by his will de vised it to George Bing, lord viscount Torrington, the present possessor of it. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… north of England; and William, who possessed his father's seat at Fairlawn, and the rest of his estates in this … whose daughter Mary carried it in marriage to Mr. Henry Bing, of Wickhambreux, whose son John Bing 2 sold it to Mr. Edward Baker, for the satisfying his …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes St John (Margate) ST. JOHN's, alias MARGATE, IS THE NEXT ADJOINING PARISH north-eastward … almost obliterated its antient parochial name of St. John's, that of Margate being the only one now known to most … Dover, and though united to it ever since king Edward I.'s reign, yet so late as in that of king Henry VI. it became a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Bendeville, by the service of bearing one of the king's goshawks, beyond sea, from the feast of St. Michael to that … into the possession of Lionel, duke of Clarence, the king's third son, in right of his wife Elizabeth, sole daughter … as that seat, into the possession of the right hon. George Bing, viscount Torrington, the present possessor of it. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… small, never here growing to any size. In Henry the IIId.'s reign there was a family resident here, who took their … Gatton, married Simon de Norwood, and had all her father's lands in Surry. In one of the windows of the north chancel … land to be applied to the use of the poor, vested in Henry Bing, and of the annual produce of 2l. The poor constantly …