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Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XXXVIII Precept of James IV concerning trade with free burghs (1490) XXXVIII. Abstract of Precept by King James IV., commanding the observance of a … by King James III. and his Council, decerning all ships, strangers, and others, to go to free burghs and there make …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish … Yarnton after 1839, when Sir George Dashwood, 'to prevent strangers coming in', spent heavily in buying up cottages …
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 … masked, with other masquers, giving themselves out to be strangers coming "as ambassadors from some foreign prince," …