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A History of the County of Oxford
… West mead (75 a.) lie along the north bank of the river with no physical boundaries between them; together they are … 13 lots, represented by 13 cherrywood balls each inscribed with the name of a lot, 9 belonging to Yarnton and 4 to … Rothe, Watery Molly, and White; the Begbroke balls are Boat, Perry, Walter Geoffrey, and William of Bladon. Tenants …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, … valley through which this beautiful river winds abounds with picturesque and romantic scenery, and perhaps no stream in the country is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… rectory, rated in the king's books at 5. 3. 9., endowed with 400 private benefaction and 400 royal bounty, and in the … importance. There is a day and Sunday school in connexion with the Established Church. Yn-Dre-Isa (Yn-Y-Dre-Isf) … two brothers Hywel and Madoc, whom that chieftain had made prisoners. It did not remain long in the possession of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to Llwyd, the learned Welsh antiquary, it is identified with the city termed by the Britons Caer Effioc, and, among the towns mentioned by Ptolemy, with the Eboracum of the Romans. The latter name is probably … Park, in the county of Durham, had nearly made them prisoners; but by the treachery of Roger Mortimer, who opened …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… of 263 acres on both sides of the rivers Ouse and Foss, with a perimeter, omitting stretches of water, of 2 miles. There were four main gates, or bars, all with projecting barbicans, six postern gates, and 44 … from 1802 to 1896 and intermittently before then of state prisoners, like Lord Clifford and Aske. (p.s. see p. 176.) …
Survey of London Monograph
… temp. Ed. IV unconfirmed. Query if he is not identical with John Water, Warwick and Chester. See Chester (7). Arms: … & later dictionaries add: Crest: A demi-talbot argent with an arrow gules in the mouth. 4. ROWLAND PLAYNFORD … Castlecombe & Lusthill quarterly (see J. Wrythe) with crescent for difference in centre of the quarters (Coll. …
Survey of London
… In 1536, the King, after providing the Bishop of Norwich with a house in Cannon Row, Westminster, granted 190 Norwich … to the office of "kepying of the Bysshop of Norwyche place with the profightes of the gardeyns there." The Duke had … commonly called Suffolke Place alias Norwiche place with the appurtenances and 50 messuages, 10 cottages, 4 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Baker says this fish is very rare, but that he has met with specimens in Taunton market from the south coast, and in … Bay. Specimens of small size are often brought to market with other fish. Baker has seen a specimen from the estuary … In September 1887 a young female was taken alive on a boat in the Bristol Channel ( Zoologist, 1887, p. 433). The …