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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… receiver general of hearth money in. See Leigh, Thomas. Chess, game of, paper relating to Chester order for payment …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… gentry in places in residents in travellers from or to Chess, game of Chester county palatine of chamberlain of vice …
The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the fifteenth century
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… screens, stands, etc. 1751: 2 night tables 1. 4. 6. 2 chess tables 3. 3.. Mending a voider .9. 6.. 1752:2 night … Portable Writing Desks, Tea Chests, Backgammon Boards & Chess Men, Card Cases, Tablets, a great variety of Toys, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… lectures and entertainments, a library, and classes in chess, French, book keeping, and a range of arts and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… exhibiting at the town hall, in 1894. 73 Hampstead Chess club existed by 1885, as did Belsize Chess club in 1888, and met at Stanfield House until the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… village was called Chestham river in 1647 40 and later the Chess brook; 41 in 1647 the chief tributary in the south was … parish. 54 A wood called Wantley, apparently south of the Chess brook, was mentioned in 1376, and Wantley wood in 1518; … of the village, on land which slopes northwards to the Chess brook. 69 The modern Parsonage Farm evidently occupies …
A History of the County of Sussex
… parcels of several meadow at Wantley, presumably along the Chess brook, seem to have been highly prized during the … six oxen c. 1255, 22 perhaps included meadow along the Chess brook north of Wantley, where there was common meadow later: Littlewish east of Chess bridge, recorded from 1331; 23 Widebrook or Whitebrook, …
Henley: Social and Political History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… by 1723. 1 Other inns had shuffleboards and (apparently) chess boards, complete with their 'men'. 2 Recreational use … view of the river'. By 1858 there was also a reading, chess and music society with rooms in Bell Street, which … and hosted lectures, musical entertainments and chess tournaments on winter evenings. The patron was the …