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Calendar of Border Papers
… hoverynge in any part of the isles or coastes of Scotland, Orkney or Shetland, but hitherto I can lerne none otherwise … then that abowt the x th of August they passed betwixt Orkney and Shetland to the Fayre Island, and compassynge … Mackkye and Mackdolland (laytly commed to Edenburgh from Orkney and the West Isles), that the Spanyerdes are not seyn …
Calendar of Border Papers
… the 26 th instant, there came to this town the Master of Orkney brother to the Earl of Orkney, without safe conduct or warrant by me. On being … Bowes and the gentleman porter, sent for the Master of Orkney, and in their presence, told him of the sundry reports …
Calendar of Border Papers
… M r Offley of London, driven by weather into harbour in Orkney, where the Earl of Orkney "after many slightes and devises," seized the ship and …
Calendar of Border Papers
… the King called me to him, and touching the Master of Orkney's being stayed at Berwick and his promise to enter, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in this country, being only recorded from Ilfracombe and Orkney in Great Britain. Until quite lately the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… in the college rebellion of November 1768, 82 and the 'Orkney Arms,' now known as 'Skindle's,' through which the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… BRESSAY, BURRA, and QUARFF, a parish, in the county of Orkney and Shetland; containing 1798 inhabitants, of whom 904 … Stirling from Linlithgowshire. Burness BURNESS, county of Orkney.See Cross. Burnhaven BURNHAVEN, a village, in the … a quoad sacra parish, in the parish of Bressay, county of Orkney and Shetland; containing 870 inhabitants. The district …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… sold the estates to George Hamilton (d. 1737), 6th earl of Orkney, who freed the Broadwell estate from incumbrances only … by his eldest daughter Anne (d. 1756), styled countess of Orkney. In 1753 she and her husband William O'Brien (d. … Mary (d. 1790), a deaf mute who in 1756 became countess of Orkney. Her husband Murrough O'Brien (d. 1808), 5th earl of …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… the Prince of Wales leased Cliveden, Bucks., from Lady Orkney and lived there in great style until his death in …
Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066 - c.1214
… are internal inconsistencies in both of these. Even on Orkney itself, his translation, and the observance of his …