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Survey of London
… PALACEHISTORY The King did not wait for the completion of the legal formalities before taking possession of York … at Whitehall before Philip and Mary to receive Cardinal Pole as special ambassador from the Pope. A year later (4th November, 1555) Pole held a synod of both the convocations at Whitehall, that …
Old and New London
… Whitehall forsaken as a Royal ResidencePartial Restoration of the PalaceThe Cock-pitCromwell and Sir Roger L'EstrangeDeath of Oliver CromwellThe Ultimate Fate of Cromwell's BodyThe … colour, seemed to have grown after death. An ashen pole, pointed with iron, had received the head clumsily …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… been the greatest distress among all classes in all parts of the country. Let us try to be proportionably grateful. 2. … very soon also. Prostitution is carried on in some parts of London to a shameful extent, and the parishes in which … of his entertainment entitled 'A Journey from the North Pole to the Equator'. The proceedings were conducted in a …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… was favoured with a sharp thunderstorm, perhaps a remnant of that one which astonished Liverpool yesterday. The Queen … gone to Manchester; they take up their abode at the Earl of Ellesmere's during their stay there. The enquiry into the … diagrams etc. Fine and cold. Today the stoppage of the Wolverhampton Banking Company was announced, liabilities from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Count Alan's manorial demesne at Wicken included three out of the seven hides formerly assessed on the vill, and a third of its twelve ploughlands. But he had on it, with 5 servi, … a., over half on the Little Isleham fee, were held freely of Wicken manor, excluding Spinney priory's 115 a. The lord …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1500-1714 Widdis-Wilshman Widdis-Wilshman Widdis, Brian of Wilts, 'paup.' New Coll., matric. 23 Oct., 1601, aged 15. … 25 Feb., 1607-8, M.A. 27 Jan., 1613-14; vice-principal of Gloucester Hall, and chaplain to Katharine, Duchess of … B.A. sup. Oct., 1539; one of these names prebendary of Wolverhampton 1547, rector of Beaconsfield, Bucks, 1549, etc. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WILLAND ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Halberton, Collumpton and N. divisions of Devon, 2 miles … WILLENHALL, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Wolverhampton, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… papists in Willesden c. 1641 or c. 1714, 74 and in spite of the early Irish immigration Roman Catholic churches and … at Harlesden in the 1880s, and the introduction of annual processions to the shrine of Our Lady of Willesden in 1903 provoked attacks by …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Willey WILLEY Willey was a small parish on the edge of the east Shropshire coalfield, 4 km. east of Much Wenlock and south-west of Broseley which it adjoined. … the village. 46 Enlarged to plans by Griffin & Weller of Wolverhampton c. 1859, 47 it remained in use until 1972. It …
Statutes of the Realm
… 1688 Chapter I. An Act for a Grant to Their Majestyes of an Ayd of Two shillings in the Pound for One Yeare. [Rot. … Vernon Henry Cavendish Robert Coke Godfrey Menell Samuell Pole Thomas Browne Thomas Bates Nicholas Wilmott John Burowes … Drake Sir Ames Pollard Sir Bourchier Wrey Sir Courtney Pole Sir Coplestone Bampfield Sir Francis Northcott Sir …