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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 2. On 23 Sept in Willingham, 'there being a feast or wake kept ...and a great concourse of people from severall … of the severall parishes of Cambridge held up the bucklers or hilts against all comers out of the Isle of Ely where Mr … of blood, being provoked as formerly, said, It is a lye, or you lye, and further told Mr Castle that if it pleased him …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… 1778. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A37/4] For Shelburne House, London, or Bowood, Wilts. Adair & Co. supplied goods and carried out … Windsor are known stamped ADAMS 122 MINORIES LONDON, or variants of wording. [D; GL, Upholders Co. records; GL, … Hall Blinds for windows curiously painted on canvas, silk or wire. [Temple Newsam Exhib., 1976, 21; GL, City Licence …
A History of the County of Somerset
… on Charlton Horethorne and Stowell is divided by a valley or combe running east to west now occupied by a stream and … the parish in 1860 and a station, later known as the Upper or Top station, was opened west of the main street. In 1878 … 1983. 13 The earliest known settlement is a late IronAge or Roman site near the boundary with Horsington parish; near …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Northampton, 2 vols. Baker, R.S., 18912 'Hunsbury or Danes' Camp', Associated Architectural Societies Reports … and Papers 13, 225 31 Dryden, H.E.L., 18856 'Hunsbury or Danes Camp and the Discoveries there', Associated … and Wales Krause.J., 1957 'The Medieval Household: Large or Small?', Economic History Review 9, 42032 LAO Lincolnshire …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the churchyard, records in Welsh, but without either name or date, that a man was buried there who lived three miles to … Castell Mawr. Near it, on a hill called Coppayr Wylva, or "the mount of the watch-tower," are some remains of an … another deeper and broader fosse, called Fs-yRhuveiniaid, or "the Roman fosse." About two miles to the west of the town …
The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book, 1462-1511
… of the craft and the profit of the people. And that six or four of the best [men] of the same craft be chosen and … appropriate. [1.] First, that no foreign should hold house or shop in the City or the suburbs thereof nor sell nor buy … Item of Richard Beaumont for like cause 6d. Item of John Plays for like cause 2d. Item received of William Vyan for …
The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book, 1462-1511
… Accounts 24-46 24. [f. 31] Be it remembered that I John Plays, umper, William Parker and Robert Howton, wardens of … payable next Easter 10s. 25. [f. 31v.] The account of John Plays, umper, William Parker and Robert Howton, wardens of … Parker and Robert Howton have received of the wife of John Plays, on whose soul may God have mercy, on behalf of the …
St Martin-in-the-Fields
… Either the Easter fee which occurs later as 'token' money, or a collection towards the expenses of "the paschal Light," … was across the chancel arch; on the centre was the Rood or crucifix flanked by figures or the Virgin and the Apostles. The figures faced west ( vide …
St Martin-in-the-Fields
… of Red velvet w t deacon and subdeacon 15 w tout Abbis or others appartaynyng to the same Item Receued of the gefte … kept in (1) a dome-shaped pyx suspended above the altar, or (2) a pyx kept in a cupboard on the superaltar, or (3) a cupboard in the wall, or (4) a detached erection on …
St Martin-in-the-Fields
… S'm xvj d Item receued for the Midull lights and for iiij or Torches at the buriall of the Good wyff Pecoke S'm ij s … at Cristemas ij d Item payed to A laborar for .iiij. or dayes at v d the daye S'm xx d Item paied for ij. quarttes … Jesus altar was not unusual, with a Jesus Mass to be said or sung at regular intervals. The first or earliest mass said …