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The Environs of London
… Barking. Morant derives it from the Saxon words Beorce and ing, signifying a meadow planted with birch-trees; but … visible not far from the town 2. Situation, boundaries, and extent. Barking lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the … Mountagu. Lord Hatton died in 1670, being then governor of Guernsey 194. The title is extinct. "William, son of Sir …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was agriculturally productive by 1210, yielding corn and having a mill at which to grind it. 16 In the late 13th century and early 14th the farms of Wallhurst manor, which included a … reared pheasants. In the 1930s there was a fine herd of Jersey cattle at Woldringfold. 56 At High Hurst there had …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… village of Cranford lies to the north of the Bath Road, and the lands of the former parish of Cranford surround it on … but on the eastern side it extended slightly farther north and a small leg stretched southwards over the Bath Road. East … he is buried. 48 A fourth fellow, Warren de la Rue, of the Guernsey family, built an observatory by Springfield, on the …
Survey of London
… Craven Street and Hungerford Lane CHAPTER 4: CRAVEN STREET AND HUNGERFORD LANE Early History of the Site. Craven Street … 1807, was captain of one of the "Companies of Invalids" in Jersey in 1794. In 1802 he was in charge of the troops in the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ridge with a complex geological structure. Its irregular and often dramatic landscape has much in common with north … was divided, though the town itself was never large, and looked southwards into Dorset rather than north and west … provide the dating evidence. Penes Countess Poulett, Jersey. E. Devon R.O., CR 528. S.C. 6/Hen. VIII/6174. Ibid. …
Cardiff Records
… vellum; fair condition.] Endorsed: "O. 16851767. I. d o"; and on last cover: "Masters Reports Outwards." [The earliest … burd' 24 tt s m r Comp a Engl' ab S t Martins Reporteth and Maketh of the said Vessell, & all the Goods wares & … 22 d 1704. John hampton Enters the Ship Durell Gally of Jersey fforreigne built (propriety English about 70 tt s as …
Cardiff Records
… Hawshaw, was appointed in 1732 to cruise between Milford and King Road. The Cardiff Custom officials write to the … "the Smuglers do begin in this Channel to appear already, and about a fortnight ago there was one of them, of Aberthaw … that one Richard Robinson a Notorious Smugler who lives at Guernsey carries on a considerable Clandestine trade by …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Hants, baptized 28 Oct., 1573, brother of the last named and possibly father of the next. Dabridgecourt, Thomas born … father rector of Wyke Regis, Dorset, and chaplain to the Jersey garrison, but deprived at the restoration. See … & O.H.S., iv. 275. [ 15] Dauver(g)ne, Edward s. Philip, of Jersey, pleb. Pembroke Coll., matric. 5 Dec., 1679, aged 15; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Walsall, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 1 mile (N. W. by W.) from … and cordage, to Newfoundland, and sheep and lime to Jersey and Guernsey, and in the importation of wine from Portugal, and …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… laws concerning prices of wines, was read the second time; and an order was made for taking into consideration a … is a law; for the Lord Chancellor may enter his cellar, and sell at statute rate, and remedy abusesTo heighten the … to the present Earl of Granville. Elizabeth Castle, in Jersey, (of which he was Governor) was the last place that …