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City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… and Grocers' Companies, appears to have consisted, to a great extent, of merchants and wholesale dealers; others, … which must have become extinct, along with all their great charities, without their assistance. The present … time of Edward VI. The purchase money was probably to a great extent subscribed by then existing members out of their …
Two London Chronicles from the Collections of John Stow
… souldiers of Arde 7 com nere to Guysnes purposyng to had a great boty of catell; but ther were resisted by the men of … gyue most for it. 21 In this yere was browght to y e citie great plente of frute, for ther cam in one market in to …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… amongst ourselves. The brave Sindercomb hath showed as great a mind as any old Rome could boast of; and, had he … little generosity as slavery hath left us) as to think so great a virtue can want its monuments even amongst us. … that have died for their country; when we admire those great examples of magnanimity, that have tired tyrants' …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Town of Colchester and of the parts adjoyning, receive a great part of their Sustenance by making of Bays; that for … by view of the Seal, wherein (the Law requiring it) such great care hath been had from time to time, that upon the …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Roper Knight, Defendant, for Depopulation, converting great quantities of Land into Pasture, which formerly, for … the tilling, manuring, and husbanding thereof, to the great benefit of the Common-wealth, and of his Majesty. One … thereunto, formerly used for Tillage, into Pasture, to the great decay of Husbandry in those parts, altho he might have …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Majesty, by his Highness's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date at Westminster the … informed this Court, that because his Majesty in his great wisdom foresaw, that without government of that Trade … Works, his Majesty did by other Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date at Westminster the …
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5, Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham
The volume covers 9 parishes in north and north-east Middlesex, completing Gore hundred and embracing the whole of Edmonton hundred.
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 16, Kinwardstone Hundred
The volume relates the history of the 15 parishes in Kinwardstone hundred in east Wiltshire, including Froxfield and Great and Little Bedwyn. The hundred lay between two medieval royal forests, Savernake and Chute.
A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4
This volume covers the city of Worcester, as well as parishes in the hundreds of Pershore and Doddingtree, in the south and west of the county. These include the towns of Pershore, Great Malvern and Hanley Castle.
A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 6, the Borough and Liberties of Beverley
Beverley stood high among the provincial towns of medieval England, with the great minster church and the college of St. John.