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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… Whereupon came the aforesaid Amy and asked that prohate or proclamation of the said testament might not prejudice her claim to dower or other sufficient estate according to the custom of the … without Bisshopesgate. To Thomas de Porkele, his cousin ( mon cosyn), a tenement called "le Bretasse" 18 in Thames …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Lake, then 438 a. of arable, constituted 16 yardlands, or about 27 a. to a yardland; 126 the glebe in Lake at that … in agriculture, and 2 were engaged in retail trades or handicrafts. There were also 6 female servants. 148 There … the Air, 254. V.C.H. Wilts. ii, pp. 133, 153. Dugdale, Mon. vi. 338; V.C.H. Wilts. iii. 276. W. Farrer, Honors and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Dillington (148990), of Tollard Royal. George Howder, or Houton (1447), of Marston Meysey, William Stephens … and included beyond the borough and parish of Wilton all or part of the parishes of Burcombe, Barford St. Martin, … without trespassing on the adjacent frontiers of Salisbury or taking in the parish of Laverstock. V.C.H. Wilts. v. 73. …
The Environs of London
… very ancient records Wimbledon is described as a grange or farm within the manor of Mortlake, which accounts for its … finest tulips and gilliflowers that could be got for love or money; yet in these outward pleasures he nourished the … 42 orange trees in boxes, valued at 10l. each; "one lem"mon tree bearing greate and very large lemmons," valued at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… was never permitted to enter the congregation of men; or any man the house of the nuns, except priests only, who … entered it never to go out again, unless a good reason or matter of great expediency sent her out by the advice [of … maps). Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ed. D. Whitelock), s.a. 718. Mon. Germ. Hist., Auct. Ant., xv, 51416. D. Whitelock, Eng. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… substantial premises west of the church. 3 The high bridge or mill bridge was probably built in the Middle Ages below an … c. 1771 and the mill bridge was rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century with two segmental arches, possibly using the medieval pier. 5 Akers or Hawkers bridge, of two high arches and a central buttress, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the north, now blocked up, with shafted jambs of late 13th or early 14th-century date, now much defaced and only visible … The octagonal panelled font appears to be of late 16th or early 17th-century date. In the centre of the south wall … Catherine's Hill. Its belfry was blown down in 1286 ( Ann. Mon. [Rolls Ser.], ii, 106, 375). It was annexed to the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of sixteen days, though frequently increased to twenty or twenty-four by temporary grants 3 and often in practice … with the fair of St. Ives and the famous mart of Holland or Boston. During the fair-time at Boston and Winchester even … et seq.). Turner, Domestic Architecture, i, App. 275. Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 57. Hunter, op. cit. 5. Pipe R. 25 …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… lay within the walls, but the east and west sokes, or suburbs, which entirely surrounded it, were for long … of the rates. City of Winchester. Gules two leopards or set fessewise and facing one another between five castles … state 'Londonia bis combusta est: Wintonia semel' ( Ann. Mon. [Rolls Ser.], ii, 41), but, as has often been pointed …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… organization. Whether the gild merchant existed before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first … 'tenurial heterogeneity,' 12 nothing but 'a juxtaposition or patchwork of fragments of great estates.' 13 In other … proceeding, except three that were at Winchester ( Ann. Mon. [Rolls Ser.], ii, 47). Vide supra. The charter of King …