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A History of the County of Oxford
… reference, magazines, general reading, ladies' reading, chess, conversation, and lectures. An annual subscription of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… St. James was running cricket, football, rambling, and chess clubs and, by 1914, a women's hockey club. 23 St …
A New History of London
… book he printed in England was a Treatise on the game of Chess, translated by himself from the French. He was …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… board games during the dinner hour aroused an interest in chess. Pupils also benefited from the generosity of Mrs …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… The Tower. 33. Sir Allen Apsley to the same. As a game of chess, earnestly played, and for a great wager too, so is the …
Statutes of the Realm
… weight cont. cxij li. j li. Chesse bords the dozen j li. Chess-men the groce cont. xij dozen xij s. Chests of Iron …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… that the one, probably checker, defined a pattern like a chess board using only two colours, while the other defined a …
Survey of London
… argent, a label of 3 points gules (Colvile); 2, argent, 3 chess rooks gules (Walsingham); 3, argent, on a bend gules a … Two crests are carved above each shield (a) a lion (b) a chess rook. A shield at the base gives azure, a lion argent, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the town. This place derives its name from the small river Chess, which rises in the neighbourhood, and, after running … and strawplat; and there are several mills worked by the Chess for the manufacture of paper, and a silk-mill worked by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Dell Farm and the road to Chesham, on the S. bank of the Chess, was found in 1834, partly excavated in 18634, and … W. of the village, on a hill overlooking the valley of the Chess, is built of flint rubble, with stone dressings which …