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Magna Britannia
… 160 yards by 120. There is another on Sir Lawrence Palk's estate. The camp at Ugbrook, called Castle Dyke, is an … Narber, about half a mile from the coast, on Mr. Basset's estate, is a small circular work called the Castle. On … are several camps and posts at Posbury hill, in Tedburn St. Mary, a camp called Leathern Castle, in Colebrooke …
Magna Britannia
… King Edward III, when Ralph Lord Dacre obtained the King's licence to castellate his mansion of Naworth. Much of the … the entrance to which is by a very strong door, well secured with iron grating and bolts; the approach to it … more existed, except as a heap of ruins in 1739, when Buck's view was published 5. Great part of Millom castle, which …
Magna Britannia
… plooyth wyth the. ...." In the east window is a figure of St. Ursula, crowned, and surrounded with glory; and beneath … forming part of the ancient monument called the "Giant's grave;" and is no doubt to be referred to the period when … drapery, now s.et upright. In the south transept of Bake well church is an altar-tomb, enriched with figures, in bas …
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… the top is a parapet of open work, in which the Countess's initials, E. S., frequently occur. The state apartments are spa cious and … which is the date of 1478. It is pro bable that this, as well as many other articles of the furniture of this mansion …
Magna Britannia
… the most remarkable. Wetheral Safeguard, or Constantine's Cells, consisting of three chambers cut out of a rock, at … opere exstruc"tum;" which the citizens of Carlisle shewed St. Cuthbert in the year 685, as recorded by Bede. At the … superstition, the prosperity of that house depends, is well known from the Duke of Wharton's ballad, which begins, …
Magna Britannia
… was found many years ago near Spurston, in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Carlisle. British and Roman Roads and Stations, … which, as may be seen by the plans of them in General Roy's work 10, were British fortresses of considerable … another of these British trackways. The British towns, as well as their roads, have been mostly defaced by the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… At this level, apothecaries served as the poor man's doctor. It is significant that the rich Miss Bingley sent … shops were not. One advertisement placed in 'Aris's Birmingham Gazette' stressed the importance of position in the town as in 'A well accustom'd Apothecary's Shop, neatly fitted up' …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… cul-de-sac to its present route; a group of six tenements S. of the church was demolished (map in NRO). After acquiring … 18 Apethorpe Church Ecclesiastical (1) Parish Church of St. Leonard (Fig. 18; Plate 56) stands at the E. end of the … Apart from Apethorpe, Mildmay had only a London house, in St. Bartholomew's. When he bought it, Wolston's house had …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ft. above OD on both sides of Willow Brook, here draining S.E. to the R. Nene in a broad open valley. The stream has … (4), previously unlocated, has now been discovered in the S. of the parish (Fig. 20). This village is one of the few … chapel which was first mentioned in 1250 was dedicated to St. Nicholas and the last-recorded institution was in 1448 …
The London eyre of 1244
… appealed Peter of Harrow of a breach of the king's peace, but he does not come. Therefore he and his pledges … place to place, keeping him imprisoned until the feast of St. Lucy [13 Dec. 1241], when he died in his prison. And that … him, and afterwards, on the vigil of the feast of St. Edward [? 12 Oct. 1243] they came again to his house and …