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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… 1701 September 1701 Sept. 2. Loo. Royal warrant to the provost and fellows of Trinity College, Dublin; reciting that the … house. Then I came away. While I was there, about 12, the Portugal ambassador came in his coach to Mounier's lodging, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… William III Undated 1699 Undated 1699 The following undated documents are among the papers relating … the Great Mogol, the several kings in the East Indies, and other remote princes, have been of late written, lymned … Charles, of London, sugar, shew make, etc., at Poart, in Portugal, for London, being under sail, descried four ships …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Queen's Coll. 9 July, 1612, D.D. 8 June, 1614; chaplain to the master of the rolls 1614, of Lincoln's Inn 1621, rector of Lydlinch 1609, and vicar of Fordington, (both) Dorset, 1609, rector of East … Michael 1563-7, Lincoln 1571 and 1572-83, ambassador to Portugal 1567, and to the low countries 1576, etc., dean of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be … The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … and in November of the same year. Ambassadors from Portugal were entertained there in 1489 and a treaty of peace …
A History of the County of Oxford
… economic life 1500 to 1800 ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its … cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing … and Canada, with finer blankets exported to Spain and Portugal. 134 Exports through the Hudson Bay Company seem to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and … between 1916 and 1918 mostly by German prisoners and Portuguese labourers accommodated at the workhouse. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Parish church and church life PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century … 176 and in 1794 the church acquired, apparently from the Portuguese embassy in London, a Schnetzler organ and a wooden …
A History of the County of Oxford
… CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong … but no Witney townsmen seem to have been implicated, and in 1577 only five recusants were reported there. 2 Among … masses were celebrated in the former workhouse chapel for Portuguese prisoners of war helping to construct Witney …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … (I.W.) in 4 parliaments 1705-14, envoy to the court of Portugal 1714, governor of Barbados 1721; died unmarried 15 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Yazor Y Yaddlethorpe YADDLETHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of Bottesford, union of Glandford-Brigg, E. … It is situated on an acclivity above Bottesford beck, and comprises 733 a. 3 r. 6 p. The common lands were inclosed … is maintained with the Baltic, the Mediterranean, Portugal, and other parts of the continent; and a regular …