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City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… appointed by Your Majesty to investigate the affairs of the Livery Companies of the City of London, humbly present … We have, however, carefully considered their Report, and we find ourselves unable to agree with it in several … or members very recently deceased, to the common purse. 18 Fire of London. The then existing members, who rebuilt the …
Three fifteenth-century chronicles
… A Brief Latin Chronicle, Being the Concluding Portion of a Work Entitled "Compilatio De Gestis Britonum Et … had ysew lawfully begete, Philipp hys only dowȝter and eyre, e wich was lawfully coupled to Edmund Mortimer, … Thomas Gosse, Robertus Merfyn, Johannes Buttlere, Rogerus Water, janitor regis Henrici, Thomas Fenwyke, Robertus …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… A brief Relation of the late Dangerous Plot for the Destruction of his … The common enemy having failed in all their former plots and conspiracies, for the ruin of his Highness 1 and the … the length of them, it was conceived they would have given fire to the basket about one o'clock in the morning. The …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Depopulation against Sir Anthony Roper, in the Court of Star-Chamber. In Camera Stellata coram Concilio ibidem, … by his Majesty's Attorney General upon the Prosecution, and by the relation of John Philpot Esquire, against Sir … their Out-houses, to be ruined and uninhabited, and one Water-Grist-Mill to decay and go to ruin, as by the said …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… A Glossary A GLOSSARY, Explaining some particular Terms and obsolete Words which occur in the foregoing Account of Yarmouth. Anchorage. A duty levied on ships, for liberty … it signified goods lost by ship-wreck and floating on the water. Frank-pledge. This was an ancient custom borrowed from …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6
The history of the parishes of Slaughter hundred, and the upper divisions of Tewkesbury and Westminster hundreds, all in the eastern part of the county. The volumes includes accounts of the parishes of Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold.
Two London Chronicles from the Collections of John Stow
… A London Chronicle Edward VI Edward VI The first yere of y e kynge Edward y e vj. y e xxviij. of January. Sir John … inhabytauntes & dyver gentylmen which were flede into it. And agaynst thes rebells were sent y e lorde Russell, lorde … one navle, & one ishew where out passyd both ordure & water, havynge ij. legges growynge out of y e one syde of y e …
Two London Chronicles from the Collections of John Stow
… VIII 1523-1555 The notes folowynge wer copied out of Myst'. Lordynges boke. Richard y e seconde The iij de yere … e viij, Tomas Baldry beyng mayre, was y e lady Hungarford and hir man hangyd at Tyburne. 2 The xvj. yere of his reyne y … on 7 Sept, which Stow duly inserts before the note on the fire at Baynard's Castle. Should be 'Elizabeth'. …
Two London Chronicles from the Collections of John Stow
… thankes be to God, the Wednysday, beynge y e xix. th of Jully, at v. of y e clocke in y e afternone y e hole body … meate & drynke plentye, wyne geuen ffrely of many men, and a greate peale of ordynaunce was shote of at y e Tower. … e 12 day of Nouember, cardynall Poole came vnto Lambeth by water & ther dyned. 48 Vpon Sonday, beinge y e xxv. day of …
Three fifteenth-century chronicles
… III (12721377) Edwardus Primus. Thes bethe the names of the meyres and shereffes in the regne of Kynge Edwarde the First. William Hervy, Meir John Horne A primo. Water Porter Harry Walleys, Meir Nicolas Wynchester A ij e. …