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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of yours to your own natural indulgence, and Lord Portland's kind representation, rather than to any merit of mine, … them therewith. But they doubted whether they would or could consent to the remitting more money till the account … the taking of a French fishing boat by H.M.S. Portsmouth prize, which boat, with the master and men, you desired might …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… title of Earl of Jersey in the county of Southampton. [ S.P. Dom., Entry Book 345, p. 513.] Sept. 1. Whitehall. … Robinson had written from Stockholm, that there were six or seven ships unquestionably belonging to the Swedes. They … the time within which goods taken shall be allowed as prize, be sent to the Admiralty, though there is a doubt as …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… for the time being, the clerks of the signet attending, or other his Majesty's servants: that his Highness' letters to the Grand Signior, … would colourably take us as his prisoners, claim us as his prize and free us from the Turks: which was accordingly done …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… (now North) Street, already purchased with part of Dyer's money, was to be held by the schoolmaster rent free and … 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 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Northwich, Second division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 1 mile (N. W.) from … It comprises 4140 acres, of which 467 are common or waste land. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in … year from eleven acres; for which, on both occasions, the prize of 30 guineas was awarded by the Society for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a … and Nonconformist schools better suited to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed … history or geography, at a night school run by a former prize-fighter. 17 57. Witney grammar school: plan and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … gable to the street, perhaps of the late 15th or early 16th century. No. 49 Market Square is a … two days and included races on Curbridge Downs, with the prize of a 'handsome superb cup'; 348 in the early 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish before the beginning of the 19th century when dame or 'petty' schools were recorded. 76 A Sunday school, started in 1813 on the 'new' or National system, closed shortly afterwards for lack of … glebe house and supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton College, was attended by 101 children, and in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Elizabeth Seys, by will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the … The income was not fully used and a surplus of £342 3 s. 8 d. existed in 1828. 13 In 1834 a school was built by … the Woodchester Endowed school, up to £10 for apprenticing or for an exhibition for further education, £20 for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 … to have been succeeded there by the mercer John Barnes (or Baron), ten times mayor in the early 16th century. …