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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" …
Old and New London
… of the ceremony, which took place on Holy Innocents' Day (December 28), 1065. Edward, in order to ingratiate … and Brayley's "History of Westminster Abbey," "on the day of the translation of Edward the Confessor, a vessel of … was first opened for divine service; and on the same day, writes Dart, from "Wyke's Chronicles," the body of …
Old and New London
… incidents attending some of them. It was on Christmas Day, in the year 1066, that the new Abbey of Westminster, the … continued, and it is not mentioned at what hour of the day or night the conflagration ended. The English who had … that nation to enter the Abbey or Westminster Hall on the day that ceremony was performed. Some of them were, however, …
Old and New London
… a train of other buildings, of which we can at the present day scarcely form an idea. In addition to all the land around … his going into his office when half the business of the day was over, his nights being devoted to play. He now lies … Oldfield will be scared To find that at the Resurrection Day They all so near the consistory lay." The Craggs …
Old and New London
… attainted of the felony; he had forty days, from the day of his appearance before the coroner, allowed him to … that he dwelled in the porch of the cherch both nyte and day. William Longe kepte stille the se, onto [the time that … description of a procession of Sanctuary men:"The vj. day of December the Abbot of Westminster went a procession …
Survey of London
… proclaimed it one of the prettiest productions of his day with itsporch, of the Ionic order, selected from a choice … Waterloo Road, which had been bought out of the fund, for day and Sunday schools, was acquired by the London and South …
Old and New London
… of 480 Persons concerned in the Riots on "Evil May-day"Edward Stafford, Duke of BuckinghamAnne Boleyn in her … are told that Henry III. entertained here, on New Year's Day, 1236, 6,000 poor men, women, and children. It was here, … crowned in his father's lifetime; "and the king upon that day served his son at the table as server, bringing up the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and that Roger and his men would make suit to the two law-day hundreds. 4 Later in the 13th century both the abbot and …