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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; … and the other conducted on the British and Foreign School Society's system. Of five Sunday schools, one is in connexion …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… YIELDING, or Yelden ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from … ordinance for embodying the militia, the king ordered his friends to meet him in the city, whither he directed the … all of which are well supported. The Philosophical Society was instituted in 1822, and in 1826 obtained from the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… York Castle THE DEFENCES OF THE CITY OF YORK AN INVENTORY Note. The walled city is divided … three parts which are here termed the Micklegate area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the …
Survey of London
… Embankment Gardens is now almost the sole surviving relic of the great houses which in the medival and Renaissance … he remained a prisoner, in spite of the petitions of his friends that he might be "removed to a better air, for he is … p. 307. Correspondence of Matthew Hutton, Surtees Society. Egerton Papers, Camden Society. Hist. MSS. Comm., …
Survey of London
… York Place CHAPTER 1: YORK PLACE Towards the end of the twelth century Richard of Ely (also known as Richard FitzNigel or FitzNeale), Bishop … circa 122732. Archbishop Gray's Register (Surtees Society) LVI, pp. 199200. Among the witnesses are Reyner de …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 30 Ed. I (1301)
A fifteenth granted by Edward I at the Parliament held at Lincoln in spring 1301. It covers the North Riding, one wapentake of the East Riding, and the liberties of St Mary's and St Peter's in York. From the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, volume 21.
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 … Rolt claimed that zaffre was so much in demand that the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Zoology Fishes, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals FISHES The fishes of Somerset have received a good deal of attention from the … subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in 1851 ( Proceed. pp. 95110). Very few additions … of the Somersetshire Archological and Natural History Society for 1893. In drawing up the following list I have …
A History of the County of Somerset
… NON-MARINE Favoured in its situation and the quality of its soil, the county of Somerset yields a record of inland … species of Coccinella, the Ladybirds, are among our best friends, as both in the winged and in the larval state they … presented to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society, about 1860, by Mr. Woodland, who told me that it was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… further search will do much more than extend our knowledge of the distribution throughout the county of the species … Crustacea, p. 178. Fossil Estheri, Palontographical Society, p. 67 (1862). Transactions of the Linnan Society, vol. xxvi. pt. 2, p. 426 (1868). Loc. cit. Darwin, …