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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… ANNO 12 RICHARD II. Monday next after the Feast of S. James [25 July]. Renham (Thomas), goldsmith.To be buried in S. Paul's churchyard. Bequests to the old fabric of the said church …
Cardiff Records
… in y e Kitchin . . . . . . Item I give and bequeath to my s'd son Philipp y e greatest brass Kettle and y e biggest … three Blanketts, four pewter dishes hanging over y e s d Cup-board, one wrack-Cloth Sheet, one Chest lying in y e … old pewter platter, one Trunck being formerly her mother's and a red Christning Mantle edg'd ab t a Silver Lace." …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… (1380-1) ANNO 4 RICHARD II. Monday next after the Feast of S. James, Apostle [25 July]. Fulham (Johanna, relict of William, late fishmonger).To be buried in the church of S. Andrew Hubert near her husband. Bequests to the said church for lights, &c., to the churches of S. Margaret de Briggestret and S. George near Estchep, divers …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … vicinity of this town; in which, according to Burnet's History of his own Times, was shed the first blood in the … within a short distance of the town are several gentlemen's seats. The manufacture of linen and bed-ticking was …
A Dictionary of London
… Lane. Windgoose Court See Wild Goose Court. Windillow's Court In Blackfriars (Strype, ed. 1755, and Boyle, 1799). "Windelow's Court " in Dodsley, 1761. Not named in the maps. Windmill … Site now covered by the buildings of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Windmill Court West out of Coleman Street, south …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Archbishop of Canterbury, who to the Bishop of Salisbury's claim that Windsor Castle was in his diocese successfully … 11267, when David, King of Scotland, came here as Henry's guest. King David swore allegiance to the Empress Maud as the king's heir, 16 and the same oath was taken by the English …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Northwich, Second division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 1 mile (N. W.) from … Bodmin, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 2 miles (S. E.) from Lostwithiel; containing 1056 inhabitants, and … Chapter of Exeter (the appropriators), valued in the king's books at 5: the great tithes have been commuted for 416, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… through these and neighbouring parishes. Such are Popham's Eau, an early 17thcentury cut to guide the waters of the old Nene into the Ouse at Salter's Lode; the Old Bedford River (part of the south-east … struck across in a southeasterly direction to join Popham's Eau at Nordelph (formerly a hamlet of Upwell but now a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… market at Wisbech by letters patent. 73 In the 1840's Wisbech was one of the largest if not actually the largest … 78 In 1778- 9 Francis Bampton leased the fairs for £5 7 s. a year, probably a beneficial rent; as far back as 1632 … claim in the butchers' shambles failed. 82 The bishop's rights were not finally extinguished until 1811, when £20 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … room to the rear may have been added soon after the house's first building. The hall lay south of the parlour at the …