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A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… and the lord of Water Eaton manor confirmed that Eisey's was the mother church and that Water Eaton was part of … the boundary between them followed the Thames. 3 Eisey's boundary followed watercourses for its entire length; Water Eaton's followed watercourses for about half its length, and for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… declined to 283 in 1991. 6 SETTLEMENT Because Leigh's farmland has not been exploited for gravel extraction … buildings. 17 In 1894 a red brick school and schoolmaster's house were built on Swan Lane and in 1896 the medieval … Stroud Brewery, 23 but was closed c. 1960. The Foresters' Arms had opened by 1881 and was still in business in 2007. 24 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… is nearly flat. The stream which is followed by the parish's south boundary is Woodbridge brook and, like the Ray, … principal farmstead on a reputed manor called Chadderton's stood nearby, and in the 16th century was also said to be a … A beerhouse opened c. 1870 was presumably the Butchers Arms, which was standing on the west side of the Cricklade …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… along lanes leading to its railway station. John Aubrey's suggestion that the parish name derives from the abundance … church house was an inn commonly called the Carpenters' Arms by 1789, when John Cole leased it from George Pitt, lord … 1362 a constable of Minety procured victuals for the Black Prince. 17 Minety evidently remained within the forest in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… separate civil parish in 1866. 15 Most aspects of Braydon's history are treated separately in the last section of this … of land which belonged to Cricklade St Sampson. Purton's more northerly finger, extending westward from Purton … of late 20th-century housing south-east of the Foresters' Arms at Common Platt and Sparcells, built as part of …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… of King James, was the Spanish Match, which had the King's heart in it, over-ruled all his Counsels, and had a mighty … most high descent, though of a different Religion. After Prince Henry's death the King propounded a Match with France. … them with an evil design, required them to lay down Arms, and to make no more Levies, but to live in peace as …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… themselves peaceably under his Government. A cessation of Arms proposed by Fedinand, is refused. King Ferdinand, in his … upon him, by virtue of his Coronation in the Emperor's life time, and had thereby made the Kingdom a Donative. The … with the Protestants. After that time, Bethlem Gabor, Prince of Transylvania, made known to the Directors …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… with some difficulty, by the aid and conduct of Henry Prince of Nassau. The Protestant States of Austria renounce … him, what ruine was like to follow him by taking another's Crown; and for his own part, being called upon by the … be meet, that their Forces be in readiness; And where the Arms, Munition, and Victuals may best be provided; with such …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Historical Collections 1621 The King's Speech to the Lords "My Lords, The last time I came hither, … he shall not approach within twelve miles of the Court, or Prince, nor of the King's High-Court usually beld at … Soon after came Sir Giles himself, and like an Herauld at Arms, told me to this effect, He had a message to tell me …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Broad Seal for that purpose: wherefore it is his Majesty's pleasure, that they make no niceness or difficulty to … an unmeasurable distance between the deep resolution of a Prince, and the shallow apprehensions of common and ordinary … of Great Britain shall be infallibly assisted with the Arms of Spain, for the restoring of the Palatinate. Bristol …