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Two Tudor Subsidy Rolls for the City of London
… William Cowper, mercer.] ST MARYE BOWE PARISH [English] £ s. d Richard Grainger (£60) 3 William Laier (£60) [x - Mddx. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Owen acknowledged that there had been a quarrel in Lincoln's Inn over the keeping of the records in the Tower of London … Office of Arms, and that he had taken exception to Ryley's responses, reminding him that 'there was a distance between … and place aforesaid, use gentle and lowlie, or proud and loftie, words and gestures, to and of Yorke Herald. And were …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… A "dissent" report "DISSENT" REPORT. To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. May it please Your Majesty, We, the … Society). See also the chapters on the Companies in Mr. Loftie's History of London, vol. I., pp. 120225, and the … Grocers', Goldsmiths', and Clothworkers' Companies. See Loftie's History of London, vol. I., p. 165, and the passages …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Horethorne, E. division of Somerset, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Wincanton, on the road to Blandford; … are quarried. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 9. 9. 4., and in the gift of the Rev. Thomas Fox: … repair. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 11. 10. 2., and in the gift of Mrs. Moilliet; …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… to the grange of the monastery, in revenge for the friar's treachery, and was proceeding to burn the abbey itself, … the north-east by Llanano, and on the west by St. Harmon's. It is intersected by the road from Kington to Aberystwith. … 13. 9.: the vicar of Wrexham receives a rentcharge of 14 s. Aber, or Aber-Gwyngregyn ABER, or ABER-GWYNGREGYN, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Lesmahago, Upper ward of the county of Lanark, 6 miles (S. W.) from Lanark; containing, with Turfholm, 881 inhabitants. This village, formerly called Macute's-Green, derives its present name from its vicinity to the … ABBEY PARISH, Renfrewshire.See Paisley. Abbey St. Bathan's. ABBEY ST. BATHAN'S.See Bathan's, St. Abbotshall …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… 376 are in the village of New Aberdour, 8 miles (W. by S.) from Fraserburgh. The name of this place is supposed to … Aberdeen; the patron is A. D. Fordyce, Esq.; the minister's stipend is above 200, with a manse, built in 1822, and a … direction, the most famed of which is one named Mess John's Well, a strong chalybeate, celebrated for its medicinal …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at 12. 9. 9.; patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph: the … the interest of which, together with a rent-charge of 10 s. bequeathed by Edward Hughes, is paid to the master of the … In 1846 a school was established under Dr. Williams's endowment, from which the master receives 25 per annum, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… county of Berks, of which it is the county town, 6 miles (S.) from Oxford, 26 (N. W. by N.) from Reading, and 56 (W. N. … king of Wessex; on which institution Ceadwalla, the king's son and successor, bestowed the town and its appendages. … the site was afterwards given, by Edward VI., to Christ's hospital in this town. The Guild of the Holy Cross was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the bishop of London. 84 The church was valued at £13 6 s. 8 d. in 1291, 85 and again in 1428. 86 In 1536 and 1549 it … were recorded in 1548, 98 although in Elizabeth I's reign a small piece of land, valued at 1 d., was said to be … in 1464, 1477, and 1479. 1 Mrs Sarah Crayle left 40 s. a year in 1730 for an annual sermon, as did Mrs. Ann …