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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in duty bound ever pray John Boles Watson, manager of the royal theatre at Cheltenham. Ref.110 BA1/1/522/76 (1790) To … of John Boles Watson master or manager of his majestys royal licenced theatre at Cheltenham in the county of … 28 George 3 chapter 30 John Boles Watson, manager of the royal theatre at Cheltenham. Ref.110 BA1/1/450/46 (1792) To …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of the tenth part of a knights fee, and also by the royal service of finding the king a right-hand glove at his … &c. Primier duke and earl of England, next after the blood royal, custos rotulorum of the west Riding of Yorkshire. This …
A History of the County of Essex
… whilst the number of farmers fell from 13 to 5 and of agricultural labourers from 113 to 104. 89 A threshing … parish in the 19th century. 96 Membership of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union was strong from 1874 until 1889 … but from 1894 union activity declined. 97 The reduction of agricultural wages in 1919 led to protests, but the farmers' …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1825 there was a National Sunday school. 10 The National Society gave a grant towards the building of a new schoolroom …
A History of the County of Essex
… out of the 30 parishes in Lexden hundred, and 535 in 1851. Agricultural depression from the late 19th cent- ury caused … Hall manor house provided a focus of settlement for the agricultural parish. The other manor houses were Garnons in … as an inn in 1750, was the meeting place of a friendly society between 1794 and 1849. 87 The one and a half bays on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in consideration of a grant of 200 from the Incorporated Society. A free school is endowed with an annual pension of … by subscription, aided by a grant from the Incorporated Society; and contains some monuments to the Bethune family. … and facilities of equestrian exercise. The Royal baths, erected in 1823, comprise India, medicated, …
A History of the County of York
… the vicars-choral, the appointment of papal provisors and royal officials to the chapter caused increasing … changes to the minster. In 1539 Richard Layton, one of the royal visitors of the monasteries, was appointed Dean of York … and a canopy to make good the seizures of the royal commissioners. 94 The progress of the Reformation in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and was served, at least in the 13th century, by a royal chaplain (Hutchins I, 698). It was restored in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… homes. In the Middle Ages and later Worthing was a small agricultural and fishing hamlet of less importance than the … the summer and autumn shows of the Worthing Horticultural Society. 49 Glass-house growers also began to take a part in … 64; Jesse, Agric. of Suss. 92; V.C.H. Suss. ii. 285; Jnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd ser. x. 287. See below, Econ. Hist. …