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A History of the County of Lancaster
… structure retains so little ancient work that little or nothing can be said of the development of the plan. Two … century. It has been so much rebuilt, however, that little or nothing of the original work remains except in the … 1633; ibid. 11. Lancs. and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xiii, 63. A piper and his host were censured for playing in a house at …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… mountainous country of the Lake District, having Thurston or Coniston Water in its centre and Windermere for an eastern … boundary. The northern half is known as Furness Fells or High Furness, the southern half as Low or Plain Furness 1; … 3; Newtown, 1; Peaseholme, Robert Leache and Richard Piper, 1; Stanke, Yarlside Cote, 3; Newton and Billingcote, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… The area is 9,446 acres, including the tithings of Denmead or Barn Green, Chidden, Glidden, Rushmere, and Ervill's … are green meadows sloping upwards from the road to one or two houses, which stand well back with a back-ground of … Ervill's, 1 miles west; Furze Hill, 1 mile south-east; Piper's Hill, 1 miles south-east; Soake, 1 mile east; and …
Old and New London
… none of whom, however, reached maturity. It was in 1551 or 1552 that Gresham's real fortune commenced, by his appointment as king's merchant factor, or agent, at Antwerp, to raise private loans from German and … ambassador at Brussels was to bring over with him 20,000 or 30,000, but he afterwards changed his mind, and sent the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Burgesses were admitted by patrimony without payment, or after serving an apprenticeship on payment of £1, or, if strangers, on payment of a fine often of £1 or £2 but increased in the 1590s. 53 The minute books suggest …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 74 A similar guild for the minster parish was founded or confirmed in 1508. 75 The religious and ceremonial … each steward, and 8 d. from each brother. 77 On Rogation or Cross Monday 1502 the governors watched the procession of … Church property in the town, who were mostly courtiers or Crown officers, sold it to local men is obscure. 97 Early …
Old and New London
… and for which he had been demanded again and again, or, in the vulgar phrase, dunned de die in diem, he was at … of some work then in hand. He received the cashsome ten or twelve guineas. Full freighted with this sum, he was … the Earl of Worcester's gardener, by the Earl of Salisbury or his agent, that if he could prevail with his lord to cut …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy
… vj d o.q. De Roberto le Carter xiiij d o.q. De Alicia Piper iiij d De Willelmo Wetherby iiij d De Rogero Banger x d … to Yarm. Persons bearing the names of Aslakeby and Estir or Estria occur in the Guisbrough Chartulary (ii. 42, 431) in … (Pedes Fin. Ebor. 30, 31 Edw. I., No. 82). Lythe par. East or Low Worsall, Kirk Levington par. Waupley, Loftus par. …
Old and New London
… says Manningham, "we had a play called Twelve Night, or What you Will, much like the Comedy of Errors or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and neere to that in … great Earl of Leicester) was elected Palaphilos, constable or marshal of the inn, to preside over the Christmas …
A Survey of London
… The warde of Faringdon extra, or without The Warde of Faringdon. Extra, or without The warde of Faringdon without. The farthest West … of timber into the field, then backe againe by the Pens (or folds) in Smithfield, by Smithfield pond to Cow lane, …