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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… such as OVERCOATs. Montgomery, quoting Arthur Young's Tour of the Southern Counties (1768), gave Witney as the …
A History of the County of Essex
… of the manor (also presumably in reversion after Mary Gate's death). 92 John Hoskyn, who presented pro hac vice in 1578, … Birch in order to provide an annuity for John Comyns's widow Mary. 5 In 1770 John Richard Comyns sold the advowson … Roding was valued at £5 and in 1291 and 1428 at £5 6 s. 8 d. 19 In 1535 it was valued at £16 13 s. 4 d. 20 The …
A History of the County of Essex
… husband. In 1235-6 Beauchamp Roding was held for 1 knight's fee. 36 It descended along with Eaton Socon until 1291, … after, for in 1638 it was sold by Sir John Ramsden and Anne his wife to Sir John North, K.B. 58 On North's death in … Mich. 9 Jas. 1. C142/487/127. CP25(2)/922 Hil. 3 Anne. Morant, Essex, i, 136, has John, brother of George …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… fled from Norwich to escape the penalties of Earl Guader's conspiracy. 2 These merchants brought with them a … an extent and survey of the manor taken in 1587, when Dame Anne Gresham was again a widow, it was determined by a … was, a surrender of the fen, with all the rights, &c., to Queen Elizabeth, by an act of the inhabitants in general, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… two parishes were once a single estate. 78 Beckbury (Becca's burh or house) 79 is bounded on the west partly by the … 19th century) 80 and has had several other names. Beckbury's northern boundary partly follows a tributary of the Worfe … 1585) and partly the RytonWhiston road. Beckbury's southern boundary, with Badger, follows no natural features …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and hundred of Shrivenham, county of Berks, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Farringdon; comprising 792 a. 2 r. 25 p., … to the dissolution of religious houses, and was endowed by Queen Elizabeth with 7. 11. 4. per annum, and afterwards by … Sir Christopher Wray, lord chief justice of the court of queen's bench in the reign of Elizabeth, was a native of the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… was ten marks: 'Tis now 6l. 5s. 5d. value in the king's books, and the prebendary continueth patron. In this town … Moreover he shall have the mansion called the priest's house, paying for the same to the canon sixpence per annum, … church, not here mentioned to belong to the canon."Rastal's Southwell. …
A History of the County of Essex
… of ponds and springs, of which the most notable was Miller's well, a medicinal spring situated at the point where the … prove a littoral settlement, have been found near St. Mary's church and at North Woolwich. 13 Until the later 12th … Street House, commemorated by its street names not only Anne Boleyn, whose legendary connexion with the house is …
The Environs of London
… 1s. at Wallington. Manors. At the time of the Conqueror's Survey, there were two manors in Beddington, exclusive of … hall is a portrait of a lady, which is falsely shown as queen Elizabeth; her arms are in the corner of the picture, … probably be attributed in some measure to the interest of Anne Bulleyn, to whom he was related through their common …
Survey of London
… in Bedford Street in the early years. Sir Francis Kynaston's aristocratic academy, the Musaeum Minervae, had a brief … of Roman Catholics was anticipated, and also that of the Queen's French friends. Kynaston asked that the King should … with regard to the faadea blend of Elizabethan and Queen Anne stylesand I cannot help feeling that it is at once …