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Old and New London
… Bishopsgate CHAPTER XX. BISHOPSGATE. The Old GateThe "White Hart"Sir Paul Pindar's House: its … its HistoryAllusions to it in ShakespeareFamous Tenants of Crosby HallRichard CrookbackSir Thomas MoreBonvici. … The house being considered far too splendid for a mere clerk in Chancery, much in debt, was nicknamed "Fisher's …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Lands belonging to Bisley … Stonehing at Brown's Hill. 60 The lands produced a rental of £35 in 1689, 61 rising by the late 18th century to c. £49, … £10 of their income to a schoolmaster and £2 to the parish clerk, and apply the residue to church maintenance and the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 Hugh d'Avranches, earl of Chester, held the large manor of Bisley, extended at 8 hides. It evidently … in 1608 when it was held from Bisley manor by Thomas Ward, clerk, in right of his wife Anne. 70 In 1621 Ward, who was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES In the late Anglo-Saxon period Black Bourton belonged presumably to the large royal manor of Bampton, though if so it was alienated piecemeal before … the University Museum in Oxford, where Bramwell was clerk of works. 89 In 19878 the house was internally divided …
A History of the County of Oxford
… RELIGIOUS HISTORY Black Bourton had its own church by the mid 12th century, apparently jointly established by the lords of two Black Bourton manors. From the 13th century it was an … seem to have been conscientious, though there were periods of relative neglect particularly in the 16th and 18th …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Michael) BLACKAUTON ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Kingsbridge, hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and … Primitive Methodists, and Warrenites, also a Scottish kirk and a Roman Catholic chapel; and in the rural parts of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Blackburn hundred Mitton THE HUNDRED OF BLACKBURN ( CONTINUATION) MITTON (PART OF) - … and Mary Jane Nelson, widow. Robert de Clitheroe, clerk, granted a pasture called Crawshaw in Bailey to Richard …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Blackford BLACKFORD Blackford in 1839 The ancient parish of Blackford is a detached part of Whitley … daughter Catherine and to her husband, George Bethune, clerk, and was held in 1810 by Catherine's son George …
Old and New London
… Blackfriars Road The Surrey Theatre and Surrey Chapel CHAPTER XXVIII. … ROAD.THE SURREY THEATRE, SURREY CHAPEL, &c. Formation of Blackfriars RoadThe Surrey Theatre, originally the "Royal … the height, is the reader's desk on his right, and the clerk's on his leftthe clerk being a very grand personage, …
Survey of London
… Development, to c.1819 CHAPTER XIX - Blackwall Yard When the ship-repairing firm Blackwall Engineering closed its … Blackwall Yard in 1987, it brought to an end a tradition of shipbuilding and shiprepairing on this site which had … of the porter's lodge on one side and rooms for the Clerk of the Yard on the other. The Clerk's accommodation on …