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The Manuscripts of the Corporations of Southampton and Kings Lynn
… Fourth. III.2 Henry VI. to 2 Victoria. Fourteen Assembly (or Congregation) Books, being registers of the acts and … called Congregations, viz.: (1.) 29 Henry VI. Assembly or Congregation Book No. I. (2.) 929 Henry VI. " " " No. II. … pryvie seall, And at he for e Wurchipp of is town in alle ynges shall wele and honestely gone in ourneye accordyng to …
A History of the County of Warwick
… confined to freeholders, who were limited to one horse or beast per person, sheep being prohibited altogether. 1 For … to inclose by the method of agreement ratified in Chancery or the Exchequer, and on 28 October 1614 Replingham entered … 19 December. 14 The area of the land to be inclosed was 7 or 8 yardlands, or 400600 acres, of which 200 acres was …
A History of the County of York
… 30 intra-mural churches and their parishes are spread more or less evenly over the city. Outside the walls there were, … to the river had been the meadows of St. Clement's—Nun Ings—and so after 1586 became part of St. Mary's, Bishophill, … Fields, Hob Moor, Micklegate Stray, and the riverside ings, lay no townships, and its boundary formed the boundary …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… appointment in the room of those who by reason of sickness or other hindrances cannot give their Attendance.' In the … to distinguish them from those serving in ordinary or extraordinary prior to 1702, and simply 'chaplains' …
A Survey of London
… I wil beginne at Temple Barre, on the right hand or North side, and so passe vppe West, through a Backe lane or streete, wherein doe stande three Innes of Chancery, the … distraught and lunatike people, of what antiquity founded, or by whom I haue not read, neither of the suppression, but …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… signify among the antient Britons and Gauls, a bridge, or passage over a river; since it is no where used, but in … used by our Saxon ancestors to signify a city, town or castle) they called it Hroueceaster, and by a further … miles from London. The remains of the antient Roman road, or Watling-street way, leading from London hither, is very …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 39 The origin of the modern name is uncertain. 'Walegra' or 'Wallgrave Hill' was mentioned about 1611 as a local … Walsgrave Hill. Isolated references to the parish as 'Sowe or Walsgrave' occur in 1588 41 and as 'Wal(s)grave upon Sowe' … suggested from a compound of weald and graf (grove or copse). 43 It is possible that when William Brown rebuilt …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… Lord Byshopp at the tyme of the examynacon of the busenes or privatlie dealt with therein by the lord Byshopp or any from hym. Butt as wee have heard the said Schoolmaster … by the recognizance and before I had received your letter or informacion against hym towchinge the cause of his …
A History of the County of Leicester
… 3 Henry Mosley was described indifferently as yeoman or weaver. 4 Thomas Swan, yeoman, was a miller as well as a … yarn. 28 William Ludlam the butcher had no slaughterhouse or shop and was probably a grazing butcher. 29 John Boxall, … wool and locks from fells that might have been purchased or might have come from some of his own sheep. 54 Thus the …