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A History of the County of Middlesex
… ESTATES. In 1468 John Careley granted to John Roberts and others a house and land in Neasden which he had acquired in 1454 and 1465. In 1480 Roberts and the others, at Careley's …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Willesden Public services Public Services. A whipping post and stocks were erected in 1680. In 1749 there were … a country house, while 29 a. south of the railway became sports grounds. The council bought the house in 1908, opening … Edward VII recreation ground and later called Willesden sports centre. 17 The council bought 14 a. near Gibbons Road …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Willesden Settlement and growth SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH. Apart from Roman Watling … Acton Lane to the infirmary. Grange farm was replaced by a sports ground in 1935, although the Grange survived in 1966. 36 In 1949 there were several sports grounds and allotments. At that date the 19th-century …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Willesden Social and cultural activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. In … By 1914 the council was receiving so many applications for sports pitches that they had to be ballotted. 86 The number … in 1935. 89 As building swallowed up all available land, sports grounds became concentrated in the public parks and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the east Shropshire coalfield, 4 km. east of Much Wenlock and south-west of Broseley which it adjoined. 64 At various times coal and ironstone were mined and iron was smelted and worked on … No separate figures available after 1951. J. Randall, Old Sports and Sportsmen (1875), passim; V.C.H. Salop. ii. 175; …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary February 1693 February 1693 Feb. 1. Depositions of … about four months ago he was taken by a French privateer and carried into St. Malo; last Saturday night he sailed … of St. Malo, Philip Welsh, commander, of fourteen guns and sixty men, and a week ago arrived at Ventry in county …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary June 1689 June 1689 June 1. Pembroke. Israel … that, three weeks agone, come from Rochell, with salt, and discharged, most part of it, at Scilly; the rest eight … work fortifying, a great wall being raised about the town and a fort at the isle of Oleron. They utter mournfully their …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary October 1691 October 1691 Oct. 1/10. Carmagnole. … eye-witness to give the King particulars about the siege and other matters in the campaign. Refers to the post of … by the motive of doing his best for the public interest, and he knows the friendship he bears to Spain; nevertheless, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Williamson. I have to-day received your letters of the 4th and 7th inst. [N.S.], but have not had an opportunity of … the quantums to be settled, they will next proceed to ways and means. It will be difficult to find funds for so much as … the Comte de Bonde was stopped by the ice at Rotterdam, and presuming this S.W. wind may detain him in Holland, I …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… 11 EDWARD I. Monday next after the Feast of S. Edmund, K. and M. [20 Nov.]. Waleys (Johanna le).To Katherine her … daughter houses in "Chykenale," 1 parish of S. Sepulchre, and assignment of the wardship of Johanna her god-daughter ( … The second Tuesday after Easter, when certain rude sports called "hocking" were practised. It was also …