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A History of the County of Essex
… Sheep had increased from 40 to 100, rounceys from 2 to 10, and swine from 25 to 30, although cows had fallen from 5 to … 3. The large number of bordarii (24) recorded in both 1066 and 1086 may indicate former assarting, or perhaps some … trade. Tenant farming seems to have stagnated between 1066 and 1086 when the number of villani fell from 7 to 5 and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… - Denbighshire Denbigh DENBIGH, a borough, market-town, and parish, having exclusive jurisdiction, in the union of … of that prince, assumed the title of Prince of Wales, and here convened an assembly of the native chieftains, in … against the English. But their efforts were unavailing; and Davydd, being surprised and taken prisoner in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… on the bay of Cardigan; including the town of Pwllheli, and containing 2367 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual … half a mile to the north of Pwllheli; but being very small and in a state of great dilapidation, a new church has been … Maen Llia, which is about eleven feet high, is by some antiquaries supposed to have been a Roman milliary, but by …
Old and New London
… Golden HindReferences to Deptford in the Diaries of Evelyn and PepysPeter the Great as a ShipwrightCaptain Cook's Ships, the Resolution and the DiscoveryBiography of Samuel PepysClosing of the … given by the owners of these shops will not satisfy antiquaries, who have adopted a far more probable opinion, …
Survey of London
… DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES * Frontispiece. The Elephant and Castle on the Brighton Road, 1826. From the engraving by … I. Lewis engraved for R. Wilkinson. ( b) Sick men's ward and instruments of torture in the Marshalsea, 1729 From an … 1678 From the original in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. 13. Aerial view of Borough High Street, 1945 …
Survey of London
… of Whitehall; ( b) the western portion of the Palace and the north side of Downing Street ( a) From Vertue's … drawing by G. Vertue, in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. 7. The Holbein Gate (geometrical elevation) … drawing. 14. Kent's Treasury, detail of upper stage and pediment Photograph. 15. Kent's Treasury, west elevation …
Survey of London
… Vertue (1742) from the original survey by William Haiward and J. Gascoyne. 2. The Liberty of the Tower (with part of … Hallows) Drawn by George Cruikshank (1840) from Haiward and Gascoyne's original, and ascribed by Cruikshank to the … Ellyn From rubbings in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries by Mill Stephenson. 75. William Thynne, 1546, and …
Survey of London
… by Frederick Nash (Gardner Collection). 4. The Church and Leathersellers' Hall from the east From an engraving of a … 5. The Church from the southwest From an engraving by West and Toms. 6. Interior of St. Helen's Church looking south … 1534 From a drawing in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries, London. 39. The same From a drawing in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Diptford Dilliker DILLIKER, a township, in the parish and union of Kendal, Lonsdale ward, county of Westmorland, 8 … Low Ghill in the township, is a station on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, for the traffic of Sedbergh and Dent, and of the farms which stud that portion of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… - Drymen Dingwall DINGWALL, a royal burgh, sea-port, and a parish, the capital of the county of Ross, 20 miles (S. W.) from Cromarty, and 174 (N. N. W.) from Edinburgh; containing 2100 … of this original institution being unnoticed by historians subsequently to this period, it is supposed that …