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A History of the County of York East Riding
… Elections Parliamentary elections played a large part in the economic and social life of Beverley throughout the period. The right to return two … was firmly vested in Pelham and 'the adjacent country gentlemen', Newton was decisively defeated, demonstrating the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… from Hull, R. C. Broadley, spent five days at Beverley. The visit cost him £5 18 s., of which, as he noted in his journal, 17 s. 6 d. was for the … the trade of innkeepers and shopkeepers and the educated gentlemen officers were a welcome addition to the limited …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Beverley, 1700–1835 Town Government Town Government The structure of the government of the town as laid down by the charter of … one a maltster, and one a tanner. In 1831 they comprised 4 gentlemen, 5 attorneys, 2 medical men, a banker, and only one …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Bibliography Introduction This is a list of bibliographic references to all works used in addition to the material provided by the Dictionary Archive. In the first … with one Hundred and sixty Copperplates, by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland, in three volumes, printed for A. Bell …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Billesdon is a large village, situated nine miles east of Leicester on the main road to Uppingham. The area of the civil parish is … be founded on fact. 27 But Cade prepared the sons of local gentlemen for Cambridge 28 and regretted that some of these …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in this Session. Bills brought in this Session. AN Act for the making of the Arms of the Kingdom more serviceable in Time to come. … the Naturalizing of Sir Robert Dyell, Knight, one of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Privychamber, and George Kirke, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Birch Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY In the Middle Ages the separate manors of Great and Little Birch occupied the main part of the … of them in the period 1501-60. 83 Colchester merchants and gentlemen sometimes invested in land and houses in Birch, for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Birkenshaw BIRKENSHAW, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish of Birstal, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 6 miles … supply, bread became so dear as to induce a number of gentlemen to form a flour and bread company, which soon …
Old and New London
… Bishopsgate CHAPTER XX. BISHOPSGATE. The Old GateThe "White Hart"Sir Paul Pindar's House: its … its HistoryAllusions to it in ShakespeareFamous Tenants of Crosby HallRichard CrookbackSir Thomas MoreBonvici. … during his year of office a masque was performed by the gentlemen students of Gray's Inn and the Temple, in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Michael) BLACKAUTON ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Kingsbridge, hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and … Norfolk, with a numerous retinue of bishops, knights, and gentlemen, who conducted him to a magnificent tent of cloth …