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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… The present Volume deals with Westminster Abbey alone and thus differs from the previous volumes of the … The pre-eminent position of the Abbey as an imperial and national monument is sufficient to justify exceptional … treatment so far as the description of the structure and its contents is concerned. It is also the excuse, if …
Survey of London
… South Kensington' and the Science and Art Department CHAPTER V - 'South … who ever since the setting up of the Select Committee on Arts and Manufactures in 1835 had been warning an often … the work of the Prince's eminence grise, Ludwig Grner, in association with Humbert. Grner also designed furniture and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Chaloner was the son of Sir Thomas Chaloner, the courtier and naturalist, and Edward Heylin the brother of Peter Heylin, the Laudian … fool, unable to meet his debts or carry out his threats, and forced to beg Heylin's forgiveness on his knees. He …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Sherehog, London, grocer, Philip Bisse, William Hodson and Henry Dudley, all of London, vintners February - December … tavern, Cheapside, in December 1639 that Joshua Collin and William Wigg quarrelled Abstract The principal … whom Collin, a ward constable, accused of jostling him and calling him 'brokerly fellow or knave or Rascall', in the …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III
… tercia linea.' [ This cancelled entry is in the duplicate and is not cancelled.] De licencia veniendi in Angliam. Simon …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… housed the family chapel of the Constables of Catfoss and the south side that of the Constables of Wassand. … make a judgement; but this did not prevent local gentleman and yeomen reporting that, by local repute, John belonged to 'the best house of the Constables' and 'the Constables of the house of Catfosse were accounted a …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III
… pleasure, the keys of the treasury with the treasurership and all things pertaining to it clearly drawn up in writing. … it to the said Peter or Robert. Close. The prioress and convent of Alnestowa have letters of licence to elect an abbess in the room of Mabel, deceased; and there came to the king Isilia, the sub-sacristan, and …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III
… de Bello Campo, Robert de Lexinton, Oliver de Vallibus, and Adam son of William, as justices in eyre in the county of Norfolk touching all assizes and pleas, as well of the crown as others, which have arisen … eyre in that county touching those which were summoned and postponed and not finished before the justices at …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III
… 1235, membrane 14d 1235. MEMBRANE 14 d. Nov. 6. Woodstock Association of the abbot of Malmesbiry with Robert de Lexinton and his fellows, justices in eyre in the county of Wilts for … of Southampton between Richard son of Peter, demandant, and the said abbot, tenant, of a mill and 18 acres of land …