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Staffordshire Historical Collections
… date assigned to the death of Algar is 1063. A priory of black monks from the Abbey of St. Remigius was accordingly …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… along the road for 5 or 6 miles, the surface looked black and dirty, and it was 'indeed frightful to think of, … in 1830, speaks of the 'far-extended waste' of 'this black and spongy tract,' and says: 'The line extends over it …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… building of this date, circa 1350, may be a result of the Black Death of 13489, which has left so many traces of its … has no trace, except for a few remains of Elizabethan black-letter texts; and the piece of panelling with the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… altar linen and banners, two crosses and a 'paxbrede,' a black cloth for covering the tomb, and a box bound with iron. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… side of the town, there were at the east side a house of Black Friars and a leper hospital; later a charitable gild, … burgesses to the Parliaments from 1295 to 1331. 70 The Black Friars of Lancaster, who had settled there about 1260, … various ways ill-treated the townsmen and traders. 75 The Black Death visited the district in 1349, and in a claim for …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the neighbourhood of Chat Moss, and of the detached Black Moss and Tyldesley Mosses, which makes excellent and … school are a rentcharge of 5 a year on two closes called Black Fields in Pennington, given in 1655 by John Ranicars of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… it had a 'small pointed arched door, of rude oak, as black as ink, till lately painted over'; Hist. Soc. Lancs. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of Popham were granted to Hyde Abbey in 1258 by Audoenus Black (le Noir) in return for maintenance of himself and his …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 1595.' In the same window is part of an inscription in black letter in which the words 'Harewood,' 'Botelier' and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is of considerable interest. The chancel has a set of black oak stalls dated 1636, three returned on each side of …