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Alumni Oxonienses
… 12 July, 1667, aged 18, B.A. 1671, M.A. 1674; vicar of Long Preston, Yorks, 1677, until his death in 1703. See Al. … 1622; chaplain of Christ Church 1641-8, created B.D. 1 (or 2) Nov., 1642, student and precentor; canon of Chichester, … junior cardinal and 3rd minor canon 1703, and subdean or 1st minor canon of St. Paul's 1733; vicar of Edmonton, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wasdale - Waste-Lands Wasdale, or Nether Wasdale WASDALE, or Nether Wasdale, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Bees, … Here is the beautiful lake Wast-water, three miles long, half a mile broad, and forty-five fathoms deep, or …
A History of the County of Sussex
… ancient parish was roughly square in shape, with a long strip going north from the northeast corner. 63 Parts of … Worthing entrepreneurs organized trips to it by charabanc or omnibus. 79 A narrow ridge of Upper Greensand north of the … in the centre and west part, where the land rises to 250 or 300 ft., 81 much remained uninclosed heath until the mid …
A Survey of London
… Authour) a common practise in the Citie, that an hundred or more in a company, yong and old, would make nightly … to walke in the streetes. When this had continued long, it fortuned that, as a crew of yong and wealthie … hee orday ned that if any man chaunced to bee robbed, or by any meanes damnified, by any theefe or robber, he to …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… of the City touching their Mill, which, without injury or hurt to the common weal, they desired to maintain with … the assent of his lordship, which he heartily desired, or otherwise the work would be in peril of failing, and the … Theobalds, 5th October, 1624. The celebrated member of the Long Parliament; one of the five members whose attempted …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… well as innumerable small buildings, no doubt workingsheds or dwellings of the potters. Other kilns are also marked on … aisle of two bays was added to the Nave. About the middle or second half of the 13th century a further scheme of … head and label, containing a figure of a man in a long gown and with a modern head; below the niche is a panel …
A Dictionary of London
… 1568 (ib. 121), so that perhaps it may have been on or near the boundary of the two parishes. See Estwatergate. … included in Watling Street. Leland calls it " Atheling or Noble Streete," but since he showeth no reason why, I … alternative route through the City was constructed before long and that the Ermine Street may have entered the City …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… About 1760 the tithe of beasts fed on the fen commons had long been converted into a modus of so much an animal. 20At … catechized in Lent, and had 20-30 people attending the 3 or 4 sacraments held yearly as was the practice from the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to the manorial estates, numerous smallholders with little or no arable could support themselves on the extensive … 1500 after the village crofts, later Cambridge Way field or furlong. About 1868 it was reckoned as 68 a. 4 Hall field … in the southern fields passed c. 1760 from the Pecks, long its tenants, to the Masons, previously bailiffs at Denny …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fenland, yielding £5 a year in 1729, when £3 12s., or 1 s. a month for each child, went to the school. … 1818, and chosen in the 1820s by the lessee of Denny Abbey or his agent, learnt to read on the foundation. The master, … brick to similar simple Gothic designs; All the teachers long remained Anglicans, but many labourers in 1878 thought …