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A History of the County of Leicester
… the doughty radical printer and engraver, and Joseph Whetstone, the enterprising worsted maker of Northgate …
A History of the County of Leicester
… property in the borough, and a good deal of land at Whetstone, 171 where the mayor and burgesses held a manorial …
A History of the County of Leicester
… neighbouring townships in the county. In the village of Whetstone, to the south of Leicester, it had important rights … Courts were held for the corporation's tenants in Whetstone, which the mayor was allowed in 1569 to hold at his … of the chamberlains. 306 It was possible to call upon the Whetstone tenants for assistance in times of difficulty, 307 …
A History of the County of Leicester
… Stokes, the brothers John and William Biggs and Joseph Whetstone, were also Unitarians. 14 The expansion of … finance committee, which was presided over by Joseph Whetstone. 29 Apart from the committee, the care of the … The opposition to it was led by Thomas Paget and Joseph Whetstone and was probably moved by a desire to avoid any …
A History of the County of Leicester
… into partnership with John Coltman, a hosier, and Joseph Whetstone, a spinner said to have employed between 1,000 and … and finally in December 1787 a large mob attacked Whetstone's house in Northgate Street, and although fired on by Whetstone and his supporters broke in and did much damage. …
A History of the County of Leicester
… and gentlemen had lands as far afield as Great Dalby, Whetstone, Grub Street, and Tottenhall Manor, and many of the … rents. 249 The borough itself was a landowner and lord of Whetstone manor. In 1589 the Crown and duchy lands within the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Wymeswold (Leics.). 173 On 24 May 1558 the manor of Whetstone (Leics.) was devised to Trinity by Thomas Allen. …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… the drummer of Major Hodden's late company, by name Robert Whetstone, came in and gave public disturbance, with much …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Crompton died in 1587, holding a capital messuage called Whetstone Hill in Oldham of Edmund Prestwich of Hulme, and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… former passed to the Nuttalls and Radclyffes of Foxdenton. Whetstone Hill and Derker lie to the north-east of Horsedge. … appurtenances in Crompton and Oldham; Hulme D. 11617. 'Whetstone hill is one of the most ancient homesteads in the …