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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and south-west by Berkshire, on the west by the county of Oxford, on the north-west and north by that of … Chesham, Ivinghoe, Newport-Pagnell, Olney, Prince's-Risborough, Fenny-Stratford, StonyStratford, Wendover, and … Newport-Pagnell are polling-places. It is included in the Norfolk circuit; the summer assizes are held at Buckingham, …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… Mayor to the Lord Treasurer, 1 acknowledging the receipt of his letter, commending to the Court of Aldermen the cause … to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, reciting the Queen's Proclamation dated at Nonsuch, 3 the 8th of July, in the … de Codington with Henry the Eighth for Little Melton in Norfolk, July 10th, 1539. The old Manor House was pulled …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… were now a fortified town it could not sustain the siege of a single day; but in times of simpler warfare, when … days of its chivalry and splendour, and catch, in fancy's ear, the solemn cadence of its cloistered nuns. What! … These manors are now the property of His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, having descended to him through a long line of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bungay BUNGAY, a market-town, in the union and hundred of Wangford, E. division of Suffolk, 40 miles (N. N. E.) from Ipswich, 40 (N. E. by E.) from Bury St. Edmund's, and 109 (N. E. by N.) from London, on the road to … deemed impregnable by its possessor, Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, in the reign of Stephen; but that monarch, in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1425, however, it was held in dower by Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, 2 and in 1476-7 Elizabeth, duchess of Norfolk, had … then apparently formed a hundred by itself, 5 while King's Barns (in Upper Beeding) was evidently in Steyning hundred; …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… called Burgh Castle, and widely known as the reputed site of Garianonum, occupies the bold promontory which terminates … of the vanity of conquest, and the nothingness of man's proudest works. By whomsoever erected, or by whatever … on the opposite shore of the estuary, at Caistor, in Norfolk; overlooking the fact that this very spot anciently …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the union, and partly in the hundred, of Kingsclere, but chiefly in the hundred of Evingar, … and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 9 miles (S.) from Newbury; containing with Earlstone tything, 845 … in the union and hundred of Blofield, E. division of Norfolk, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Acle; containing 214 …
Calendar of Documents Preserved in France
… Burgundy Burgundy BURGUNDY. ABBEY OF CLUNY, IN THE DIOCESE OF MACON. [ Original Charters in … LXXIX. 180. MS. lat. 5459, fo. 118 d. See Duckett's Cluny Charters I. 62.) 1383. Charter of Henry I. notifying … tithe there of another Richard with two acres of land; (in Norfolk) the church of Merton with its appurtenances, which …
Survey of London
… XXIII Burlington House: Stone Conduit Close The history of Burlington House commences with the erection about 1665 of … strip 100 feet wide at the west side being held to Denham's use, a similar strip at the east side to Pulteney's, and … bronze statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds, by Alfred Drury, R.A. (18571944). It was commissioned by the Academy …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BURNETT ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Keynsham, E. division of Somerset, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Keynsham; comprising 607 acres by measurement. … union of Docking, hundred of Brothercross, W. division of Norfolk, 2 miles (N. W.) from BurnhamWestgate; containing 109 …