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A History of the County of Essex
… of Ham, which comprised 8 hides and 30 a. and lay wholly or mainly in West Ham, was held by Alestan. In 1086 it was … Hall 177 until 1738, when Cambell Price sold it to John Pickering, merchant. Pickering left it, by his will dated 1754, to his niece Ann …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… S.E. corner, and there are remains of the former feed-pipe or overflow in the middle of the S. end. The date of this … but, on the other hand, they do not resemble in form or texture the normal bricks of the 17th century, which seems … string. ConditionGood. (75). Houses, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, Pickering Place, on the E. side of St. James' Street and on …
Old and New London
… physicians, until it has passed into a proverb. "Victory, or Westminster Abbey!" Nelson is reported to have exclaimed, … House, the Jerusalem Chamber, the cloisters, and one or two fragments of buildings on the southern side, the Abbey … that offer themselves to the memory, we find Sir John Pickering, and Sir Bernard Brocas, who lost his head in the …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Thomas, in tail. Witnesses: Ralph de Bethum and James de Pikeryng, knights; Matthew de Redmane, Richard de Preston, … and that William Banes shall pay the said Geoffrey or his wife 6 marks towards such costs as he had incurred in … Preston, Sigeswicke, Mansergh and Whinfell which were then or late in the occupation of Giles Backhouse, William …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… falling from the base of Black-Combe to a level or flat nearly as low as high-water mark, and again rising to … Saxons Streanes-heale, which Bede interprets Sinus Phari, or "the bay of the lighthouse;" and in the Domesday survey is … is also carried on very largely. The Whitby and Pickering railway, which was originally opened in 1838, and …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 40 by the union of two previously separate parishes, Wick (or Wyke) Dive and Wick Hamon, which were already distinct … exposed. 47 Baker described the soil as a cold white clay, or in some parts a brown stone brash loam, overlying … family from at least the 1840s until it was bought by Pickering Phipps, the Northampton brewer, in 1883 and a new …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… king's books at 2. 13. 4., and in the patronage of Mrs. Pickering. Wildboar-Clough WILDBOAR-CLOUGH, a township, in … Lady William Gordon; it contains 100 sittings. Wilerick, or Willcrick WILERICK, or Willcrick, a parish, in the union of Newport, division of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Norman undertook to maintain the church and to hold three or four services annually, an arrangement that continued in … of A. W. Blomfield and at the expense of Leonard Pickering. 24 The chancel was given a new boarded roof, … The plate was claimed as an heirloom by Francis Pickering when he succeeded to the Wilcote estate in 1931. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in a meadow called in 1543 Butler mead, later Wilcote or Poure's (Power's) mead, said to lie in Cogges, … was more commonly farmed by its owner, notably by Leonard Pickering until his death in 1880. In the later 19th century and earlier 20th the estate was farmed by Eliza Pickering's brothers-in-law, William and Charles Sutton. 81 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… followed the edge of a wood to Ofling acre and the old or sheep way, presumably the Wilcote-Hailey road. The next … in the phrase 'Yccenes feld, where the cnihtas (servants, or soldiers) lie'. 72 The survival of the Celtic name Yccen … for the whole of the 19th century, with the Wellington and Pickering family at the manor house, and a tenant family at …