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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… 1. 1. Certificate of Sir William Balfour, John Lanyon, and Mr. Wemys to [the Council]. According to an order of … nailed in about 100 chests, having been formerly tried, and took 10 or 12 indifferently out of every chest and gave … or soon after, long before anything was done about the drainage works, tendered his tax-money and security for it on …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… 1641 February 1641 Feb. 1. Lincoln City. 1. The Mayor and others of Lincoln to Sec. Vane. The other day one John Nash, an Irishman, was charged before us with rape, and perceiving by his examination that he led an idle life, … took for repairing all Sir Anthony Thomas' imperfect drainage works; how those good proceedings were prevented is …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… May 1641 May 1641 May 1. 1. The King's speech to the Lords and Commons in Parliament concerning the Earl of Strafford. My Lords and Gentlemen, I had no intention to have spoken to you at … Begs a reward. [ p.] [May.] 87. Complaints against drainage works in the petition of the county of Lincoln. Our …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49
… 1631 December 1631 Dec. 2. 64. Petition of Peter de Lisle and Thomasine Preaux, widow, both of the Island of Guernsey, … will refer the matter in controversy between them and Zachary Roberts to the consideration of the … for loss sustained by reason of their not perfecting the drainage works at Hatfield Chase, their Lordships gave order …
Survey of London
… extending westwards towards the edge of Smithfield Market and eastwards to the line of Aldersgate Street and Goswell Road (Ill. 331). With a few small exceptions, the … numbers of bones and skeletons' were discovered during sewerage works. 2 A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… CHEDGRAVE ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Loddon and Clavering, hundred of Loddon, E. division of Norfolk, 1 … 1432 acres, of which 492 are arable, 822 pasture, and 92 woodland. The living is a discharged rectory, valued … a company. An act was also passed, in 1833, for the better sewerage, draining, and cleansing of the town. About half a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Chedzoy parish lies immediately east of Bridgwater parish and at the western end of King's Sedgemoor; Chedzoy village … element in the name, 'eg' or 'ieg', signifies an island 28 and the village, with its adjoining arable fields, lies on an … and also in part natural, may be largely the product of drainage before the late 18th century. The eastern and …
Survey of London
… Chepstow Villas and Pembridge Square area CHAPTER X - Chepstow Villas and Pembridge Square Area WHEN large-scale building … of London and the trustees of the Paddington estate in drainage matters in the Westbourne Grove area. 9 On W. K. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Cherhill church from the mid 16th century or earlier, 93 and from the late 17th century or earlier relieved their own … has a tongue which extends northwards across meadows and pastures called Low, Abberd mead, and Penn, which were … faces north-west towards Cherhill village; 24 c. 1970 a drainage system was installed to prevent erosion of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was incorporated within Cambridge's municipal boundaries, and Cherry Hinton ceased to exist as an administrative unit. … Queen Edith's occupied the south-west of the area and Coleridge ward the north-west, while Cherry Hinton ward, … Cambridge, until landowners began a programme of effective drainage in the mid 19th century. In 1825 fifty men were …