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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … vicinity of this town; in which, according to Burnet's History of his own Times, was shed the first blood in the … of the Resurrection, in three compartments, executed by Jarvis and Forrest, from a design by West, at an expense of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… purposes; the Cathedral Close as well as St. Mary's College and Wolvesey Palace (previously extra-parochial) … boundary to include on the north, part of Abbot's Barton, which was added to the parish of St. Bartholomew … the ground. Moreover, 'la greindre partie de mesme la cite est pleinement gaste et anienti par reson du povert et …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In the reign of his youngest son we hear 3 of a fine paid … 9 The proceedings customary at Winchester for the landlord's recovery of the land when rent was in arrear are of … sale on account of their necessity, 'et per hoc testatum est per majorem et probos homines civitatis.' So Edmund goes …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… description of this church by Wolstan, printed in Mabillon's Acta Sanctorum, is unfortunately very obscure, but the … buried there in 1069. But the duration of St. Athelwold's building was short. In 1079 Walkelin the first Norman … and Fox's badge of a polican occurs constantly. His motto 'Est Deo gracia' is in the spandrels of the doorway. The …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 'for the liveries of Nicholas the keeper of the king's house at Windsor.' The existence of a chapel within the … the first seven years nothing was done, but the chaplain's pay of a penny a day points to the maintenance of the … Regis et Confessoris A.D. 1898 41 in. 6. Vox Dei Gloriosa Est I W 1615 44 in. 7. Nos Avribvs Nobis Vos Cordievs Deo …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1536 when the rents of the customary tenants were worth 53 s. 3 d. and those of the free tenants 44 s. 10 d. 88 There were 5 freehold tenants at Winstone c. … Glos. (1856 and later edns.). Glos. R.O., D 1388, Miserden est. rentals. Ex inf. W/Cdr. H. M. Sinclair, of Miserden …
A Dictionary of London
… of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of use (S. 42). "Wolsieslane "lay between the tenement of Sir John de … part stopped up and built on by the Chamberlain of London (S. 42). First mention: "Wolsiesgate," 1300 (Lib. Horn. fol. … parishes of All Hallows upon the cellar and St. Laurence Est mentioned in a grant of 1276-7 (Watney, p.290). Watney …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the area that became Wombridge … to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was evidently in the Crown's … Local Govt. P.R.O., SC 12/32/32; above, Man. and Other Est. P.R.O., C 142/786, no. 67; Salop. News Letter, xxxiii. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … 1902 edns.). V.C.H. Salop. ii. 82. Above, Man. and other Est.; Staffs. R.O., D.593/J/22/15 (datable 1539 × 1547). Cal. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what … on the east by a stream dividing Hadley wood from the king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, … 2nd ser. x. 192; xi. 334-5; above, Hadley, Man. and Other Est., and Econ. Hist. (Agric.). For the name Springwell brook …