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Old and New London
… denominated Queen's or King's Scholars, with a master and usher; and also twelve almsmen, an organist, and choristers. …
Old and New London
… left it, consists of a head master, a second master or "usher," and forty "Queen's Scholars," who are maintained and … with his face turned to the east; the head-master, the usher, and the other masters kneeling in file behind him. … by the friendship of Camden, at that time second master or usher. "The obligation," as Mr. Robert Bell tells us in his …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Conquest to David de Argentine, from whom Robert the usher held it in 1086. 75 Ely later regained the lordship and …
Survey of London
… in number. One was often given on All Saints' Day to usher in the winter, and others were called for at intervals …
Old and New London
… manners of the period in which he lived. His gentleman usher, George Cavendish, also thus writes, in his "Life and … the fact that the sad scene was witnessed by Archbishop Usher from the roof of Wallingford House, which stood on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the institution, with power to appoint a master and an usher. The number of scholars is fixed at eighty, and the …
William and Mary, 1690: All Act for Paveing and Cleansing the Streets in the Cityes of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out-Parishes in the County of Midlesex and in the Burrough of Southwarke and other places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surrey and for Regulating the Markets therein mentioned. [Chapter VIII. Rot. Parl. pt. 3. nu. 7.]
Statutes of the Realm
William and Mary, 1691: An Act for Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum[m]e of Sixteene hundred fifty one thousand seven hundred and two pounds eighteen shillings towards the Carrying on a Vigorous Warre against France. [Chapter V. Rot. Parl, pt. 3.]
Statutes of the Realm
… the said Universities Colledges or Halls or any Master or Usher of any Schoole for or in respect of any Stipend Wages …