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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… lives; remainder to pious uses. Should his wife claim or receive any portion of the above tenement as her free-bench or dower according to the use and custom of the City of … given by Edward III. to the Priory of Dartford. 4 Stanham or Stoneham, a hamlet situate a little more than half a mile …
Survey of London
… built up many years earlier and included the London Spaw or Spa from which the name derived. The whole of the ground … waylaid a section of the crowd near the Spa Fields Cake (or Pie) House (Ill. 314). A few hundred headed off to the … heaps of brick earth, excavated for laying foundations, or occupied by immense heaps of bricks, manufactured or …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… year for placing four boys at 5 each to handicraft trades or husbandry; surplus income was to be saved for repairs and … the trustees, were to consist of the mayor and burgesses or aldermen who resided in the borough and parish, together … school; no boy might leave before he was fourteen, or stay on after he was fifteen. The curriculum was extended …
A History of the County of Somerset
… substantial premises west of the church. 3 The high bridge or mill bridge was probably built in the Middle Ages below an … c. 1771 and the mill bridge was rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century with two segmental arches, possibly using the medieval pier. 5 Akers or Hawkers bridge, of two high arches and a central buttress, …
Survey of London
… jurisdiction, became known as the Bishop of Winchester's (or later the Clink) Liberty. Plots of ground along Bankside … and commonly called the Wylys, and the second herbage or crop of the episcopal meadows on the west side of the said … are given in subsequent chapters. Winchester House or Palace Camden 84 states that Winchester House was built by …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the college underwent expansion, taking in three or four more quadrangles. It occupied the site of St. … a dependency of the monastery on the west, and the garden or playing-fields called Meads were extended at the expense … sudden uprisings like those of the Peasant Revolt of 1381, or the earlier Town and Gown Riots of St. Scholastica's Day …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… organization. Whether the gild merchant existed before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first … 'tenurial heterogeneity,' 12 nothing but 'a juxtaposition or patchwork of fragments of great estates.' 13 In other … by the Conqueror to make room for the 'king's house' or palace 15; the remaining thirty-three paid nothing. 16 In …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… is unknown, but St. Athelwold (96384) greatly enlarged it, or, according to the later account, completely rebuilt it. … west front of Walkelin's church. Lucy. Gules three luces or. William of Wykeham (13661404) seems to have done some … the tooling coarse, and the attached shafts semicircular or a little more than a semicircle in plan. The main arcade …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… no grounds for assuming it to be older than the Conquest or that any part of it occupies the site of defensive … within the lines of defence, instead of the more usual 4 or 5. It also fills a prominent place in the great series of … been preserved, and has in connexion with it a chime that plays the old psalm tune 'St. David' every three hours. The …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 39 and it is not possible to decide whether Windsor Castle or Corfe Castle was the scene of the tragedy. On the whole it … forbidding her to raise money for his cause by selling or pledging any of his French fiefs, 68 but in the following … reading Greek and studying divinity and philosophy. 237 Plays were several times presented before the queen by the …