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A History of the County of Chester
… when polling was adjourned the Whigs, supposing that their man had won, pursued the mayor and justices into the coffee … i. 153; ii. 448-9; iii. 689- 90, 709-11, 731-5; M. Knights, Politics and Opinion in Crisis, 1678-81, 298-9; Cal. …
A History of the County of Chester
… had gained most votes in the earlier stages. Usually the man favoured at the first meeting of the aldermen J.P.s was …
A History of the County of Chester
… for merchants from elsewhere. 3 Trade with the Isle of Man and south-west Scotland, the latter beginning in the … Chester craftsmen began importing raw materials from Man for their own use. 4 Chester was central to the coastal … the period. Beggars came from Wales, the Isle of Man, Ireland, and poorer parts of the NorthWest, drawn no …
A History of the County of Chester
… portmote court by Elnathan Rowlandson, apparently a local man, 2 and about 1715 a miniature painter planned to move …
A History of the County of Chester
… for more shops to be opened there. Case was a quarrelsome man who neglected his cure, and whose incumbency of St. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to aldermanic power was steep and difficult. An ambitious man had first to enter the council (usually in his late 30s), … for many years 'whereby an ill example will be given for knights and gentlemen to infringe and invade the liberties of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… chiefly occasioned by the decay of clothing besides the knights and gentlemen within this county now for the most …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to found a library in the cathedral whereby 'every private man [who] cannot furnish himself might be supplied out of our …
A History of the County of Oxford
… royalists naturally occupied the best houses; noblemen, knights, and gentlemen were recorded in the parishes of All … three earls and three barons, besides several baronets and knights, but in the smaller houses were the king's surgeon, … council was unwilling to countenance 'an eyesore to any man'. 92 Even so the city's recorder pointed out to the mayor …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in Wittering. It is probably represented in the return of knights' fees of the Bishop of Chichester in 1166 by the …