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A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1622 and thereafter controlled the seat until the Civil War. William Lenthall, 6 who succeeded Whitelocke as recorder …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from 1914 until c. 1928, and after the Second World War services were maintained chiefly by student pastors from … use for school and evening services until the Second World War, and was converted into a private house in 1957. It was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… acquired by Humphrey Weld in 1641 and burnt down in the Civil War in c. 1644 (Hutchins I, 349). In 1785 the account book of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Herbert, he was an active supporter of the king during the Civil War, and on the defeat of the royalist cause part of his … have been the residence of the Woodroffe family since the Civil War, 72 but although James Woodroffe held land in Cone …
A History of the County of Somerset
… only in the centre of the village until the First World War. 1 TRADE AND INDUSTRY Building stone was dug in the east … church. S.R.O., DD/BR/ely 1/6; D. Underdown, Som. in Civil War and Interregnum, 107, 134, 137, 206-7. D.N.B.; below, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a regiment of horse under Charles I. in the parliamentary war. In the hamlet of Godstow was a Benedictine abbey.See … the largest burthen. In the reign of Henry VII., a shipof-war of 1000 tons was built at Woolwich, which that monarch … with the destructive efficacy of its heavy ordnance in the war with the Dutch, it obtained from that people the …
The Environs of London
… belonging to the Navy; the guns of most of our men of war being laid up there in time of peace: there are also …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester, which was so frequently the victim of intestine war and of accidental calamity, was fortified by Hugh de … up in the island of Bevere. In the parliamentary war, Worcester was the first city that openly declared in … Worcester: the number of parishes is 171. For purposes of civil government it is divided into the five hundreds of …