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Survey of London
… or pretended, as to the parish boundary. According to the hermit, when he was in the garden with his servant they came … going in procession as usual about their parish when the hermit would not allow them to pass, although courteously asked to do so. The hermit was in his garden, armed with a great club, and having …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… of anthems, 20 l. A scholar of Oxford, 20 s. "To father hermit of Totneham," 6 s. 8 d. Englisfeld, for the "standing" …
A History of the County of York
… the minster in the king's presence. Meantime a prophesying hermit who inveighed against Henry had been beheaded, and on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at the north end of the town, which was tended by a hermit when it was first recorded in 1355. 583 At the …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… a 'holy refuge' to a band of monks wishing to follow a hermit's life. 14 In a like manner they record how …
Old and New London
… gravel excavated on the top of Highgate Hill by an amiable hermit, who had taken up his abode there. "A two-handed … difficulty." It is stated in the Ambulator that the last "hermit" of Highgate was one William Forte, who lived in the reign of Henry VIII. But of this hermit and his work we shall have more to say on a future …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Statistics from the Board of Agriculture (1905). Here a hermit is supposed to have lived, but nothing remains to …
Register & Records of Holm Cultram
… with the clearing ( landa) which Roger Goki, late hermit, held there. They may cultivate it or hold it in …