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A History of the County of York
… merchants and a few Englishmen, including Adam Benet from Leicester. 98 Their presence in York may serve to remind us …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1287 Stephen Hepworth (recurs). 128990 Ralph de Leicester. 12902 Geoffrey de Pakenham. 12935 Henry de Boyton. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… freedom of choice. The election of the powerful Earl of Leicester in 1564 introduced a succession of statesmen-Chancellors. Leicester nominated successive Vice-Chancellors, leaving only … tests were first introduced, and it was the Earl of Leicester who recommended that motions to be submitted to …
Old and New London
… Ellis, of Tankerton Castle, Whitstable, formerly M.P. for Leicester. He had for many years a mania for collecting …
Survey of London
… was the Hon. Henry John Coke (son of the first Earl of Leicester) who negotiated for this site in tandem with W. S. …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… on rising ground on the south side of the river. The Leicester branch of the Grand Union Canal, which runs through … Norman's fee seems to have been absorbed into the honor of Leicester. In medieval Theddingworth the most important … family in the honor of Skipton and those of the Abbot of Leicester and various lay tenants in the honor of Leicester. …
The Environs of London
… with a large retinue, and staid four days; the Earls of Leicester and Warwick, the Lord Admiral, Lord Howard, Lord …
Alumni Oxonienses
… prebendary of Lincoln 1636-40, vicar of Claybrooke, co. Leicester, 1639, chaplain to James, 1st duke of Richmond, … 1524; one of these names rector of Nether Broughton, co. Leicester, 1543, and of South Ormsby, co. Lincoln, 1554. See … 1680. [ 11] Thornton, Matthias s. Henry, of Crapron, co. Leicester, pleb. Lincoln Coll., matric. 24 Nov., 1637, aged …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres, and is intersected by the road from Northampton to Leicester. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 10 miles (N. by W.) from Leicester; containing, with the chapelries of Bagworth and …