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A History of the County of Northampton
… castle with three towers supported by two leopards rampant or. Northampton, the county town, lies mainly to the north … North, and was a good base for movements against the west or south-west. In 1173 it was one of the strongholds that … under age, and he only held the earldom from 1159 to 1183 or 1184, when he died without heirs. 61 Various charters of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… neighbourhood of St. Mary's Church, some quarter of a mile or more to the north-east of the walled town, whence it … on the west, and farther to the west is the ancient Bugle or Bull Street. The last two run no farther northwards than … On the east side of the old town the long streets or alleys running north and south, called Back of the Walls …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… is not Mayor till 1523). The soldiers are either Billmen or Bowmen. The weapons include swords (2 s. each), daggers (3., d., 4 d., or 6 d.), pollax (3 s. 4 d.) and halberds (16 d.. The contributions are either in money or in kind. e.g., a pere of bregyders or Bregyndelles, a …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… The militia is in you. I would have the word, declare or direct. Because this House must pay them, it is, … suffered some of his rebels to live in their provinces. Borel, then their ambassador, answered, ' that it was a maxim … upon that, how they had used both himself and his brother. Borel, in great simplicity, answered, Ha! Sire, c'estoit une …
The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… Hortun (near Wem) by Hugh Fitz-Richard to William Macer, or Macrus: "Hugo filius Ricardi omnibus hominibus suis … gave the said William sixty shillings. Temp. Hen. III. or Edw. I.Grant by Henry de Erdintone to Rob. de Stantone and … (1227), 10 Aug. an. 40 (1256), and 22 Sept. an. 42 (1258 or rather an. 41, 1257), and the confirmation by Edward, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… structure retains so little ancient work that little or nothing can be said of the development of the plan. Two … century. It has been so much rebuilt, however, that little or nothing of the original work remains except in the … prebend; William Boule was the defendant while William de Borel is given as prebendary by Le Neve; Coram Rege R. Hil. …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy
… dim. marcam Rogerus de Driffeld ij s viij d Willelmus Borel ij s viij d Robertus de Huntingdon xvj d Willelmus … by the sheriff, and so were under a different category, or foreign to the Pipe Rolls, which were exclusively devoted …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy
… MSS. lxviii. 10). Aysgarth. Domesday Echescard, the garth or enclosure of oaks, contrasted with Askrigg (Ascric), or the Ash Ridge, higher up the valley. Cf. Eskrick. Nappa, … afterwards the chief seat of the Metcalfe family. Shaw or Shaw Cote, in the same parish. Sic. Clifton-upon-Ure, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… evidence of the actual practice of textile crafts, woollen or linen, in the county. No specimens of the finished … a loom and wove for itself, which seems unlikely, or whether there were skilled local craftsmen supplying the … and Bedwynsecured exemption in respect of their 'burel' cloths, ne occasionentur in aliquo de burellis suis …
Trinity House of Deptford Transactions, 1609-35
… those on the lower gundecks should be made bigger by '2 or 3 inches square'. Her ports are also too near each other; … ships built for the king hereafter [f.58v] should be 4 ft or 4 ft 8 or 9 inches above water. The size of the ports is right and …