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A History of the County of Oxford
… 58 lies 3 miles (4.75 km.) south of Witney and 3 miles east of Bampton, 59 The village, noted for its … including assertions that there were two Yelfords, West and East, the former belonging in some way to Bampton, the … tenants of Yelford's residual open fields, for taxation and other purposes, had become the responsibility of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … remained for some days. In the time of Henry VIII., the art of printing was first established in York, by Hugo Goes, … in 1794, and contains a well-assorted collection in every department of literature, at present exceeding 16,000 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the following … Clifford's Tower is now (1971) in the care of the Department of the Environment, the two prison blocks house …
Survey of London
… surviving relic of the great houses which in the medival and Renaissance periods bordered the Strand between the Temple and Charing Cross. a York House, to which the York Water Gate … possessed York House he collected a large number of art treasures there. Peacham in The Compleat Gentleman, …
Survey of London
… as Richard FitzNigel or FitzNeale), Bishop of London, and author of the famous Dialogus de Scaccario, was in … The monks of Westminster were the lords of the fee, and a yearly payment had to be made to them of a taper of 2 … monks, in which William was referred to as their dearest and special friend, was obtained before May, 1200, 2 and a …
Survey of London
… York Road CHAPTER 7 - YORK ROAD [See plates 25, 26 and 27.] The first Waterloo Bridge Act contained a clause for … Lambeth. Except for a fringe of cottages along Narrow Wall and for Phelps' soap factory, 91 which stood east of Narrow … charter in 1830 as The General Lying-in Hospital. Medical science made great advances during the middle years of the …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… 15745. HILARY TERM, 17 ELIZABETH. Francis Vaghan, esq., and Thomas Keilwey, esq. John Vaghan, esq., and Ann his wife, and Henry Knyvett, kt. Manor of Beylby and 16 messuages with …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Spear St, Manchester, carver, gilder, picture frame and looking-glass maker (181119). Recorded at no. 51 181118, and no. 61, 181719. [D] Zanetti, Joseph, 100 King St, … 30 September 1817, stating that Zannetti's Repository of Art at 94 Market St had been established for the last 20 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Zaffre - Zoobditty match Zaffre Also known as saffer and saffre, this processed BLUE mineral, that is roasted … COBALT ore, or impure cobalt arsenate. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the centre of production in Europe … until the ARSENIC came off in a white smoke that settled and was collected in a long wooden tunnel. The zaffre was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in 1851 ( Proceed. pp. 95110). … have since been made to the list given by Mr. Baker, and which is the source whence the present account has been … is said to have been picked up dead near Wincanton (vide Science Gossip, March 1876). The evidence however is very …