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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the … of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … diversified with hill and valley, and with water. Virginia Water, issuing from a valley commencing near the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … although it retained the range of occupations typical of a small, prosperous market and industrial town. Throughout … were traded for beaver-skins with the native Americans of Virginia and New England, who wore them as loose coats, and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of wood] Cox, following Randle Holme, described it as a COMB made of close, light WOOD such as blackthorn [Holme … (1727)]. Alternatively it could refer to a child's hobby-horse or a TOY horse, but probably not to a ROCKING … worm tea, possibly the same one, was still on sale in the U.S.A. during the1850s. It had its own entry in an American …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Nov., 1638, aged 16, M.A. 16 Nov., 1648; B.A. from Cambridge, Harvard college, New … Index Eccl. Wormeley, Ralph s. Ralph, of York River, Virginia, arm. Oriel Coll., matric. entry 14 July, 1665, aged …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… (Norf.) in the early 12th century. 12 Thetford created a vicarage, of which it held the advowson until its … 18 The vicar received £1 a year in 1254, 19 £6 13 s. 4 d. in 1291, 20 and £12 16 s. 4½ d. in 1535. 21 The … (1974/5, 1980/1, 1985/6, 1990). e.g. E.D.R. (1897), 190. C.U.L., E.D.R., C 3/24; C 3/31; C 3/39. Below, nonconf. C.U.L., …
The Environs of London
… of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by … free from the payment of the same, when they came to God's board, might say a Pater noster and an Ave for his soul, … 1710; Edward Digges, Esq. son of the Hon. Dudley Digges of Virginia, 1711; James Jackson, 1732; Christopher Hill, Gent. …
A History of the County of Essex
… and 8 miles south-east of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a. (929 ha.). 33 The Stour forms the northern boundary, and … which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … recorded in 1590, was dismantled in 1919 and taken to the U.S.A. 74 The Grange, a copyhold of Church Hall manor, was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural boundary is a feeder of the river Cam in the south-east; parts of the … cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … It was not included in the sales of the 1940s and in 1962 Virginia, widow of Roger Wright Rogers, sold the farm to …
Survey of London Monograph
… Bluemantle, temp. Ed. IV. York, temp. Ed. IV. Arms: Vert, a saltire engrailed or. 2. THOMAS HOLLINGSWORTH Hollingsworth … ancestors, manor of Bayhall, in Pembury, Kent, and 8. 6 s. 8 d. a year from lordship of Huntingfield, Kent; reapp d … the College. B. 17 October 1826, probably in Philadelphia, U.S.A., where his father John Haviland practised as architect …