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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (9) large monument, said to be of William, fifth Earl and first Duke of Bedford, 1683, and of his wife Anne, daughter … c. 1530, probably by John, Lord Russell, afterwards first Earl of Bedford. The walls are of red brick with some … a shield with arms:a cheveron between three roses. On the first floor of the E. wing are three fireplaces of Totternhoe …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… wing has two roofs with hipped ends, and a window on the first floor has original moulded mullions and iron casements …
Survey of London
… 4 15 s. per acre), 2 for ninety-nine years, paying in the first year a rent of 150, which was to rise in the fifth and … public regulation of building to Kensington for the first time. The houses were to be built of sound bricks and … the south front were destroyed by enemy action during the war of 193945. The interior of the chapel is broad and …
A Dictionary of London
… ed. 1720, I. ii. 108-Boyle, 1799). In Old Bethlem. First mention : "Checker Alley," 1559-60 (Ct. H.W. II. 674). … Aldgate High Street South out of Aldgate High Street, the first turning east from the Minories (O.S. 25 in., 1880 ed.). … at No. 53 A. in Aldersgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First mention : Strype, ed. 172O. Cherubim Court South out of …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… the N.W. corner-post of No. 15 and the bracket of a former first-floor jetty are seen inside an adjacent workshop. No. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Farm. A wooden building used at Yatesbury airfield in the First World War was re-erected in the Street in 1920 as a memorial hall. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 8 Two open fields, the east field and the west field, were first recorded c. 1230. 9 They lay east and south-west of the … on the manor was partly offset in the 17th century by the first crop of a meadow in the near-by parish of Crudwell …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1730, 31 ascended the south side of the valley to meet first an ancient route from Hampton Fields in Minchinhampton, … 68 The pamphleteer Joseph Trapp (1679-1747), who held the first endowed chair of poetry in the University of Oxford … House deeds. Ibid. D 690/XI/9, cutting from Evening World, 7 Dec. 1932. P.R.O., Ind. 25526 no. 299. Ex inf. the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for livestock are unconvincing, but the qualifier, Cherry, first recorded in 1576, may have arisen from the former … Brooks Roads as far as Coldhams Common. Before the Second World War that stream's bed was covered over, so that the water …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Reginald, who held it until at least 1388. 54 In 1401 the first vicar was appointed by the master of Peterhouse. John … a historian and an international lawyer. After the First World War the living ceased to be held by fellows of the College. …