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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… (Letter-Book I, fol. 227 b). 3 A woman of this nickname, says Stow, for many years kept a victualling shop in Tower … running down from Tower Street to the Thames. It was, says Stow, sometime the dwelling-house of John Chichley, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 851, in which the latter were defeated; but Bishop Gibson says the battle happened at Wenbury, in Devonshire, with … of the very town of Wimburne." And in another place he says: "the soile about Wimburn-Minstre self is very good for …
The Environs of London
… the trench is deep and remains very perfect. Camden, who says that this camp was called in his time Bensbury, is of … who was lord of the manor in the year 1656 19. "Lambert," says Coke, author of a book called the Detection, "after he … Fuller calls Wimbledon-house "a daring struc"ture;" and says, that by some it has been thought to equal Nonsuch, if …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Robartes, a kinsman, writing to the Earl of Oxford in 1713 says that Radnor spent at least 20,000 on the estate (H.M.C. … determine (C. Hussey, Country Life LXI, 28 May 1927, 851, says 'a quantity of pseudo-Georgian decoration was …