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Journal of the House of Lords
… 1830 Die Martis, 6 Julii 1830. [709] The Lord President in the Chair. Captain Richard Alsager is called in, and examined as follows: What is your Profession? A Sailor. I have been Nine Voyages as an Officer in the Company's Service, and Five as a Commander. You have …
Journal of the House of Lords
… 1830 Die Martis, 15 Junii 1830. [583] The Lord President in the Chair. John Stewart Esquire, a Member of the House of … is examined as follows: You have been frequently in China, have you not? I have. In what Situation have you been there? I have been there in …
Journal of the House of Lords
… 1830 Die Jovis, 17 Junii 1830. [599] The Lord President in the Chair. Mr. John Simpson is called in, and examined as follows: What is your Business? That of an Insurance Broker in London. Have you been long engaged in that Business? Yes, …
Journal of the House of Lords
… June 1830 Die Veneris, 18 Junii 1830. The Lord President in the Chair. [617] Hollingworth Magniac Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: You were an Agent at Canton, … were you not? I was. For how many Years? I first went out in 1809; I returned Home finally in January 1827; I was at …
Journal of the House of Lords
… 1830 Die Jovis, 24 Junii 1830. [651] The Lord President in the Chair. Sir James Brabazon Urmston is called in, and examined as follows: You were in the Company's Service in China? I was. What was your …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Michael), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Hungerford, hundred of Selkley, Marlborough … and cultivated. Previously to the battle of Newbury, in the reign of Charles I., a sharp skirmish took place here between the parliamentarian forces and the royalists. In 1760, a fire consumed seventy-two houses; and in 1817, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… The priory of Lancaster was founded by Roger of Poitou, in the reign of William Rufus, as a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin at Sées in Normandy. Sées formed part of the inheritance of his … of Lanc. Ch. 16-17. Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 6. Mr. Farrer infers from these proceedings that …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Alperton - Altrincham Alperton ALPERTON, a hamlet, in the parish of Harrowon-the-Hill, union of Hendon, hundred … unite here. Alsager ALSAGER, a chapelry, in the parish of Barthomley, union of Congleton, hundred of Northwich, S. … 11. 4.; net income, 112; patron and impropriator, Sir John Crewe, Bart. The church is in the early English style, with …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Alstonefield is an upland rural area 3,530 a. (1,429 ha.) in extent. It was created in 1934 from the existing civil … the south-west side of the village given by Henry Harpur-Crewe (d. 1991). 77 There was an inn called the Black Lion in … was owned in the 13th century by Combermere abbey (Ches.), which established a grange there. 10 There was a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… FAWFIELDHEAD Fawfieldhead was formerly a township in Alstonefield parish and later a civil parish 5,383 a. … on the west side of the township. 70 In 1836 Sir George Crewe, on a visit to the area, considered it suitable for … Methodism in the Moorlands (Wesley Hist. Soc., Lancs. and Ches. branch, occasional paper no. 5, 1987), 5. S.R.O., D. …