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Survey of London
… York Place CHAPTER 1: YORK PLACE Towards the end of the twelth century Richard of Ely (also known as Richard … death, he granted to his cousin, William of Ely, the King's treasurer. The monks of Westminster were the lords of the … and assignees for ever." The grant ( Westm. Abbey Domesday Book Cal., f. 341b) was witnessed by inter alios (i) Richard …
Survey of London
… York Road, was made across demesne land of the Arch bishop's manor of Lambeth. Except for a fringe of cottages along … on a series of arches, was designed by William (afterwards Sir William) Tite. 95 It was opened on 11th July, 1848. In … Waterloo Station Centenary, 18481948, by British Railways. D.N.B. St. Thomas' Hospital Group. Minutes of the General …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the centre of production in Europe was in SAXONY. Although the product itself was long known, the method of manufacture there was only explained in the late … zaffre and not SAPPHIRE [Inventories (1699)]. The Book of Rates for 1660 has three adjacent entries 'Saffora, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ZEAL-MONACHORUM ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Crediton, hundred of North Tawton, South Molton and N. … roads. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 8. 9., and in the gift of Mr. Tombs: the … union of Oakhampton, hundred of Wonford, Crockernwell and S. divisions of Devon, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Oakhampton. …
Survey of London
… ZOAR STREET AND ZOAR STREET CHAPEL In 1687 the Baptists of Southwark built 201 a meeting house in Gravel Lane on … The street is marked on the 1745 edition of Rocque's map. Wilkinson refers 179 to the chapel as John Bunyan's meeting house and it is possible that Bunyan may have …
A History of the County of Somerset
… source whence the present account has been compiled. Day's great work on the British fishes contains but rare … as far up the Channel as Portishead. Pre-Historical Map Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, in his Book of Duck Decoys, published in 1886, mentions the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Vertigo substriata is a mistaken identification of Miller's record of Turbo sexdentatus which is Vertigo antivertigo, … the district are those by the Rev. Canon A. Merle Norman, D.C.L., F.R.S., 1 and by Mr. E. W. Swanton. 2 A. GASTROPODA … the county so long ago as 1795, when Lewin published his book on British butterflies. Somerset is the only English …