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A History of the County of Somerset
… Wincanton in 1840 Wincanton in 1885 The river Cale rises on the western scarp of the Selwood ridge just above the … town, presumably originating around the parish church on roughly level ground beside the Cale, first evidently … 1977. 97 From the later 17th century the town was a stage on the London-Plymouth route; a post office was open in the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… with marble shafts having moulded capitals and bases, and on the south are two trefoiled lights. At the south-west is a … and all the rest modern copies of them. A fluted corbel on the north side of the second pillar is, however, … western arch of the arcade. The tracery of the east window on the south wall of the nave is modern, but the internal …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles … Walkelin procured from William Rufus the grant of a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St. Giles, to be held 'on … local foundations all abandoned. Amongst the holdings of laymen was le Ryole or le Righol, formerly John Gabriel's and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… to the actual early constitution of the borough. The light on its existence that should come from the Domesday Survey is … King Edward had from it in his time.' The result shows, on the oath made by eightysix principal burgesses ( de … mayor of the city, and his ministers, both clerks and laymen, from exercising his office in the city, from doing …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, … of 100 ft. The site is protected by easily defended slopes on the east and south, and has another slope towards the west … towards the west and was defended by banks and ditches on the south and west and by the cliff on the north; at the …
Survey of London Monograph
… sent to England with news of the battle of Auray, fought on 29 September 1364, and whom King Edward forthwith … filius Johannis Ashwell nuper Regis Armorum' occurs on Close Roll, 20 Hen. VI, m. 3 d. A moot point whether … has additions made by a Dethick; the arms of Dethick on p. 147, for instance, are an obvious addition over an …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and those of Murrow (East and West) are just outside on the south. Some of the houses of Murrow village are in … Fendyke Bank, the great bank stretching from Cloughs Cross on the Lincolnshire border southwards to Guyhirn, is one of … counties, and the landward counterpart to the old sea bank on the east side of Leverington. Fendyke protected the whole …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a result of a suit against the Crown regarding feudal dues on newly purchased estates 49, application was made for a … the following year, 51 which retained the £100 limit on the Corporation estates and restricted the franchise to 40 … nomination to stand for capital burgess, and was rejected on show of hands by 12 to 5. He demanded a poll and got in, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… In 1697 they built a permanent chapel off Falcon Lane, on land belonging to Henry Place, a wealthy woollen draper … in Crescent Passage was purchased for a burial ground, and on it a school was built in 1836. This was used by the Sunday … when Ishmael Burroughs, their pastor, published a pamphlet on the conversion of T. Mackenesse, a condemned robber. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Privy Council asked the Bishop of Ely (Cox) to report on the suitability of Wisbech Castle for this purpose. It was … to be sent to castles such as Wisbech and Banbury; the laymen were to be placed under guard in London. 48 In August … been converted and was 'an excellent musician, especially on the organs'. 64 In 1615 twenty-four priests were brought …