Search
Old and New London
… quick-flowing stream, once so bright and clear, is now a sewer! but its name remains immortalised by the street called after it. Although, according to a modern antiquary, a Roman amphitheatre once stood on the … In 1815 Hone took great interest in the case of Eliza Fenning, a poor innocent servant girl, who was hung for a …
Old and New London
… Speaker Expelled for Bribery"Remember Csar"Trampling on a Master of the RollsSir William Grant's OdditiesSir John … shy and suspicious. His manner when not at his ease Mr. P. G. Patmore describes as worthy of Apemantus himself. He would … here, at Olibar Turner's, a law stationer's, that Eliza Fenning lived, whom we have already mentioned when we entered …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… centuries the southern section of the Dyke may have marked a boundary between early Anglo-Saxon territories. 3 The Fleam … city. 20 V.C.H. Cambs. i. 362. P.N. Cambs. (E.P.N.S.), 35; R.C.H.M. Cambs. i. 144-7. For further discussion, below, Fen … (Rec. Com.), ii. 432; Cal. Pat. 1553, 92-3; 1555-7, 537. e.g. Assizes at Camb. 1260, 13, 15, 22, 24; Rot. Hund. ii. 432; …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Flint - Freystrop Flint FLINT, a borough, sea-port, and parish, in the poor-law union of … are in the town. The name of this place is supposed to be a corruption of the word Fluent, an abbreviation of the Latin … as is proved by the circumstance of its even now occupying a rectangular intrenched area, like that of a Roman place of …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… King at Westminster, Michaelmas Term, anno 38 Henry VI. [A.D. 1459]. Precept issued to the Keeper of the King's prison … Lieutenant to bring up the body of John West, "notary," a prisoner there, together with the reason of his detention, … after the Feast of St. Martin in yeme [11 Nov.], to await a judgment of a jury in a plea of trespass between the said …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… shal be for the tyme whan ye be assignyd: And in alle oþ r thynges that to your offis longith to do wel and lawfully … pibaker with in your Warde that sillith owt of here hows a galon of the beste ale a bove jd ob' a galon of the secund ale above jd: ne oþ r …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and thirteen north-east of Cambridge, covered 4,204 a. until Landwade's 127 a. were incorporated in 1953, … two volumes, 1854-8, the first sponsored by his employer R. D. Fyson's wife, and three more in the 1860s, and for a … C.A.S. xxxii. 116-17; below, manors (Abbey estate). e.g. Ely Standard, 23 Sept. 1976; Newmarket Jnl. 12 Sept., 14 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and take their site, buying for the parish in exchange a plot on the high street, where six 'new almshouses' were … MS. 5809, f. 8 (from benefactors' table in ch., 1745); C.R.O., P 71/3/1 (terrier 1794); summarized, Char. Don. i. … 71/8/1, s.a. 1854-5; cf. Camb. Chron. 13 May 1854, p. 4. e.g. P.R.O., RG 9/1035, f. 38v.; RG 10/1600, f. 36v. Cf. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… manor, which rendered £10 by tale, by 1086 blanch, besides a three-day food farm of wheat, malt, and honey. That farm … a week, many labourers demonstrated, breaking ploughs on R. D. Fyson's farm, burnt down soon after. 99 He and three … for Feltons and Bassingbourns, cited below, local govt. e.g. P.R.O., SC 2/770/1; ibid. DL 29/288/4721; DL 29/290/4771; …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… assizes of bread and of ale, 84 successfully claimed under a charter of Henry III, presumably one covering the whole … Com.), ii. 502 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 107. P.R.O., JUST 1/95, rot. 50 and d. Ibid. CP 25/1/25/39, no. 2. … Ibid. L 1/68, pp. 12-13, 82-3, 99-100; L 1/70, pp. 63-7. e.g. ibid. L 1/70, p. 41. e.g. ibid. L 1/136, ff. 8v.-9, 85; L …