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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) YIELDING, or Yelden ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 … 317; patron and incumbent, the Rev. E. S. Bunting. The church is an ancient structure, and contains an interesting … of which it is the capital, 193 miles (N. N. W.) from London; containing 28,842 inhabitants. The origin of this …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… Ancient and historical monuments in Middlesex Yiewsley 60 YIEWSLEY (A.c.) (O.S. 6 in. XIV, … (3) Red Cow Inn, 60 yards S.S.E. of the modern church, was originally timber-framed. (4) De Burgh Arms Hotel, 325 yards S. of the modern church, has been extensively altered and added to. It retains …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… were attached by the use of a COLLAR, the difference in method resulting from the way the two types of animal … carried with less strain. OED earliest date of use: c1050 in the first sense; 688-95 in the second sense Found made of … visitor in the 1720s commented on the many gardeners round London who 'offer all sorts of young trees ... for sale.' …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the following Inventory, after a very brief historical … past nine centuries the castle has been, like the Tower of London, a fortress, a royal palace, a mint, and a prison, as … the Roman one. St. Mary Castlegate, a pre-Conquest minster church, served the inhabitants of the castle site. Finds …
Survey of London Monograph
… the officer of Edmund of Langley, created Duke of York in 1385, but the first reliable reference to York is in 1484 … The Yorkist white rose en soleil royally crowned. 1. HENRY FRENCH or FRANKE French (Franke) Comfort, temp. Ed. IV. … Duke of Calabria; d. 28 March 1502; bur d in Greyfriars' Church (Christ Church, Newgate). Lant's statement that he was …
Survey of London
… CHAPTER 6: YORK HOUSE The York Water Gate (see pp. 5960) in the Victoria Embankment Gardens is now almost the sole … profightes of the gardeyns there." The Duke had already a London residence in Barbican, and he seems to have used the … hired in turn by the Spanish, the Russian, the Danish, the French and the Portuguese Ambassadors, but so much had to be …
Survey of London
… and author of the famous Dialogus de Scaccario, was in occupation of some houses in the town of Westminster. … Cross of Christ; Laurence of St. Alban's, rector of the church of Attlebury; and Richard of Wokindon, rector of the … disguised, "the fyrst was the kyng him selfe and the French quene," attended by twelve knights, also disguised, …
Survey of London
… 50 and 51, Strand. The George on the east side has been in use as an inn ever since it was built circa 1675. It … (Plate 51b). The window frames are flush and the arches in gauged work and the general appearance of the front, which … of the eighteenth century. Internally the building is in a very poor state of repair and only the shops, the fronts …
Survey of London
… Float Mead, The Twenty-one Acres, and The Seven Acres. In 1807 the Archbishop obtained an Act 92 authorizing the … p. 28) in 182429. 74 Part of this land was sold to the London and South Western Railway in 1848 when the line was … Directories., The Times. L.C.C. Solicitor's Dept., Deeds. Church Commissioners: Deeds, 86885, 2/2 Local Act 47, Geo. …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… of Thomas Aleynson The moiety of 8 messuages with lands in Calton, Northby in the parish of Topclyff and Skypton upon … John Salven, kt. Manor of Arswell, the advowson of Arswell church, and lands in Arswell. William Fairfax and John … the moiety of the manor and of the advowson of Eueryngham church. Edward Jenney, kt., Robert Southwell, kt., Thomas …