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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… held by the tenure of finding the king, whenever he should hunt in Dartmoor, two good arrows stuck in an oaten cake. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Gillett in 1860, was sold with four tied houses in 1875 to Hunt Edmunds Brewery of Banbury, which subsequently acquired …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ox-roast by the early 19th century. 350 A Whitsuntide hunt in the Chase woods and Wychwood Forest, joined by … with common grazing rights. In the 19th century the hunt was announced several weeks in advance by 'a motley … ritually broken, before continuing into the Forest for the hunt. By the 1830s a beer cart followed the procession. Of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… spectators, the course was highly regarded, but National Hunt rules were alien to the patrician tone of Newmarket and …
The Environs of London
… Christopher Crow, Esq. who, in 1727, aliened it to William Hunt, Esq.; it is now the property of his descendant of the … Samuel Braddyl, Esq. 1757; John Holmes, Esq. 1758; William Hunt, Esq. 1767; Deputy Francis Ellis, 1772; Richard …
A History of the County of Essex
… that ridings were left so that the king could continue to hunt, 51 and during the early 18th century timber was …
A History of the County of Essex
… of the Wanstead estate. 41 Crow sold the hall to William Hunt in 1727, after obtaining a private Act of Parliament. 42 … apparently of the early 17th century. By 1771, William Hunt, nephew of the purchaser of 1727, had pulled down the …