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A Dictionary of London
… Misc. Ch. Bundle 68, file 12, No.333) (quoted in N. and Q. 11th S. 3, p.243). Not further identified. Yeuan (St.) See Audoen … Further east in Rocque and Strype. First mention: Made a general place for lading and discharging goods by Act of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 Walter son of Ponz held of the king 3 hides in YELFORD, together with estates in Westwell … in Gloucestershire, notably Southrop. 15 Later Walter's Domesday estate, sometimes described as the honor of … acquittal in 1795 of Warren Hastings (d. 1818), governor-general of India, descendant of the John Hastings who sold …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; containing 148 inhabitants. This parish … The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at 5. 3. 9., endowed with 400 private … inclosed some time ago by act of parliament. The soil in general is fertile, and well adapted to tillage, in which the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Yetminster 100 YETMINSTER (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XI, S.E. (b)XXI, N.E.) Yetminster is a parish and village 4 m. S.S.W. of Sherborne. The church is the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in lace-making. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 13. 4.; net income, 317; patron and incumbent, … as his superior lords. In the reign of Richard I., a general massacre of the Jews took place here, under …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to a piece of shaped wood designed to fit across a person's back and shoulders, with a chain hanging from each end onto which a PAIL could be attached and thus carried with less strain. OED earliest date of use: …
Survey of London
… CHAPTER 11: YORK BUILDINGS ( formerly George Street) Date and Description. York Buildings, the name which was once used … Street circa 1852. Only four houses there, Nos. 6, 7, 9 and 10, all of which are on the west side of the street, … from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and is probably the original house erected circa 1676, but it …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… and then the city defences, following the circuit S.W. of the Ouse from Skeldergate Bridge, to Lendal Bridge, … walls to the marshy banks of the two rivers. A palace in King's Court possibly included remains of the S.E. gate of … the three bartizans and forebuilding once rose above the general level of the battlements of the tower. In 1818 the …
Survey of London Monograph
… ancestors, manor of Bayhall, in Pembury, Kent, and 8. 6 s. 8 d. a year from lordship of Huntingfield, Kent; reapp d … place to Devenish, another St George connection; d. in King's Bench prison 30 December 1678; bur d in St George's, … E.M. wt. 5, pat. 26 March, salary from 4 February 1872. 'General' de Havilland, of Havilland Hall, Bishops Hill, near …
Survey of London
… Norwich Rents (see p. 58). Bishop of Norwich In 1536, the King, after providing the Bishop of Norwich with a house in … Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, in exchange for the Duke's house in Southwark. This grant preserved the rights of … of an anchor. The side elevations have banded columns and general surface treatment in conformity with the south front. …