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Survey of London
… exterior was originally faced with brick, with strings and main cornice executed in patent stone. The two corner and middle three houses had a series of pilasters ornamented … podium upon which stood the pilasters embracing the first and second floors and an attic storey above the main cornice. …
Journal of the House of Lords
… a Member of the House of Commons, attending, is called in, and examined as follows: What Judicial Situation did you fill … to the Court; there is a Registrar, a Master in Equity, and several other subordinate Officers; those are the Two … but Three Advocates, the Advocate General of the Company, and another Gentleman who was the Second Counsel of the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in the Chair. John William Ricketts Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: You are a Native of Calcutta? I am. … from a certain Portion of the Inhabitants of Calcutta and the Presidency of Fort William, which has been presented … How is that Petition signed; by what Number? Between Six and Seven hundred. Are they mostly Persons immediately …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aighton - Akenham Aighton, with Bailey and Chaigley AIGHTON, with Bailey and Chaigley, a township, in the parish of Mitton, union of … Ellis, in 1709, left a house and 29 acres of land for apprenticing children. Aisby AISBY, a hamlet, in the parish …
A History of the County of Somerset
… government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The two manors of Aisholt and Holcombe Colford answered separately at Cannington … parishes. 6 Courts were held at Postridge in 1362 7 and court rolls survive for East Postridge manor for 1423-4, 1426-7, and probably for 1461, 8 but Postridge was administered with …
A Dictionary of London
… de Kendale at his death granted to Sir William Croyser and others a cellar with one shop and houses built over one part of the cellar next the church … the other part of the cellar being under the church, and also the reversion of one-third of the cellar now held in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (S. S. W.) from Frodsham; containing 314 inhabitants, and comprising 1532 acres of land, whereof the soil is clay and sand. The manor was held under the earls of Arundel at an … applied in educating poor children, and the remainder in apprenticing them. Alvesdiston (St. Mary) ALVESDISTON ( St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Alvescot lies 6 miles (9.7 km) south-west of Witney and 15 miles (24 km) west of Oxford, on gently rising ground … medieval settlements of Bromscott, Pemscott, Alwoldsbury, and Puttes, which were all deserted during the later Middle … by his will, charged 5 a year on his Alvescot estate for apprenticing poor boys to be chosen by the estate owner, 138 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… removed from the Forest by a perambulation made in 1300 and confirmed in 1327. 4 Alvington parish contained 1,582 a. … north end of the later parish was in an area of woodland and waste, where the inhabitants of Alvington and Aylburton, … annual figure recorded for expenditure. 38 A number of apprenticeships, some to local paper makers, were made in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Stourbridge, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of Stafford, a mile (N.) from Stourbridge; … It is situated on the north side of the small river Stour, and comprises about 600 acres, whereof the surface is … under the will of William Tothill, of Shardeloes, in apprenticing children. The union of Amersham comprises 10 …