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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and Brook respectively. One fair was to be on the vigil, day, and morrow of St. George (23 Apr.), the second on Whit … and Wednesday following, and the third on the vigil, day, and morrow of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14 … before the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (24 June), the day of the Translation of St. Edward the Confessor (13 Oct.), …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to knit stockings. Men received between 8 d. and 1 s. a day, but the income of a married couple was limited to 5 s. a … two or three looms, and frequently a husband worked by day and a wife by night to augment the family's income. An … Coll. i. 74. Ibid. 84. Ibid. 93. J. Waylen, 'The Falstone Day Book', W.A.M. xxvi 384-5. V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 155. Hist. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… had married John St. Lo and survived her father by half a day only, and Joan, his daughter by his second marriage. All …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in a hired room. 85 This became the Church of England Day School for which premises were built with the aid of a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… son are mentioned in 1484, 35 and William died on the last day of 1505, holding the manors of Westhampnett and Pott of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in Westmeston hamlet. A charter for a fair on Martinmas-day was granted by Edward II. The living is a rectory, valued …
Old and New London
… of Henry VII.'s chapel was 14,000: a large sum at that day. The royal miser spared no expense in this piece of … last resting-place will not be known till the last great day of all. We now pass into the south aisle, which contains, … by the erection of a monument; and even at the present day no other memorial remains to point out the spot where she …
Old and New London
… on which the Commons sat in this house was the last day of the life of Henry VIII., and that their last act here … most interesting in English history. Up to the present day there is a board in Poets' Corner, outside the building, … time in the seclusion of the cloisters; and there the day of the month was proclaimed every morning after "prime" …