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Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… Giles Hooper, gent., were appointed bishop's registrars for their lives. fo. 145 d. Robert Layng, M.A., and Henry … were appointed registrars to the archdeacon of Wells, for their lives, by Henry Layng, S.T.P., archdeacon of Wells, … father. John Paine junior, N.P., appointed chapter clerk for life, on the death of William Westley, esq.; nominated by …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Vicesimo secundo Jacobi Regis. Acts this Session. AN Act for the reviving and making perpetual of One Act, made in the … the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for the erecting of Hospitals and Abiding and Working Houses … An Act for the Maintenance and Increase of Shipping and Navigation, and for the freer Liberty of Fishing, and …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… happinesse to the people, and of true obedience to us. And for this effect, that holy and able men be put in places of … may flourish in learning and true pietie. Some things for advancing of those ends we did of our own accord promise … to stop the influence of our royall goodnesse and bountie for afterward, but that, by these reall demonstrations of our …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… &c. IV. Sess. 9, May 23, 1741.Act and Recommendation for the observation of a Fast within the Bounds of the … us; and all these justly inflicted by a righteous God, for our many sins, grievous backslidings, and provocations, … which may secure the rights and privileges, the trade and navigation, of your subjects, and prevent the further …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… General Assembly to certain Ministers and Ruling Elders for discussing Affairs referred to them. The General … 31, 1828.Commission to some Ministers and Ruling Elders for the Reformation of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, … more salutary than the moral and religious influence of an engine so extensive, and so well directed, which, with an …
Survey of London
… John Harrison had won the reward offered by Parliament for a method of finding the longitude at sea. He also … he published several volumes, retained their popularity for a considerable number of years. After his death, in 1821, … William Bridges Adams, the inventor of the fish-joint for railway rails, and his wife, Sarah Flower Adams, the hymn …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… has been found only in the Books of Rates under DRUGS, for example [Rates (1657)]. It was probably what Nicholas … Tomlinson (1854), Gloag (1952, revised 1991). Aeolian engine [eolian engine] A so-called ENGINE powered by wind or 'condensed air' …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… bishops held at Oxford, a blasphemous impostor, condemned for assuming the office and pretending to the wounds of … of its original character. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Adderbury, West ADDERBURY, WEST, a township, … 11. 6. 0., and in the patronage of the Rev. H. C. Cotton, for the next turn; afterwards, of Richard Corbett, Esq., of …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… Page203.Mr. R. B. Dodd, civil engineer, has prepared plans for erecting a suspension bridge over the Tyne at some … and easy. But the present time does not appear favourable for the execution of such vast local improvements. Page … and Mr. Dodds, plasterer, have agreed to execute it for 300 less. The chapel will be 134 feet 9 inches long, and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… AND SECOND VOLUMES. TO VOLUME I. ERRATA. Page 39, 1. 6. for Saxonica read Saxonici. 64, 1.16. for were read was. 76, 1.21. for Wired read Widred. 137, 1.3. … in the principles of religion, in writing, arithmetic, navigation, and drawing, and are afterwards bound out for …