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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… dated 1517 December 1839 recording furniture supplied to Stowe amounting to 52 2s 6d. Amongst the items delivered were … 15s and dressing glasses. [D; Huntington Lib., California, Stowe MS Box 148] Willmot, Joseph, 38 Church St, Mile End, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… chaplain to Earl of Denbigh and Sir Richard Temple, of Stowe, Bucks, rector of Martinthorpe alias Malthorpe, Rutland, 1669-91, curate of Stowe 1676, chancellor of Lichfield and canon 1684, deprived … of Colsterworth, (all) co. Lincoln, 1607, archdeacon of Stowe 1629, and canon of Lincoln 1632. See Foster's Graduati …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from weald, "a wood," and ham, "a dwelling;" the adjunct stowe, "a place," distinguishing it from other Walthams in …
The Environs of London
… from the Saxon words, weald, a wood; bam, a manor; and Stowe, a place. Situation, and boundaries. Quantity of land, …