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A History of the County of Somerset
… substantial premises west of the church. 3 The high bridge or mill bridge was probably built in the Middle Ages below an … court house and land. 66 From Dyer it descended to his son Lawrence (d. 1578) and to Lawrence's son (Sir) Richard (d. 1605). 67 The last may have …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the poor. The union of Wincanton comprises 39 parishes or places, 37 of which are in the county of Somerset, and two … the Evangelist, but more probably, by others, to be of St. Lawrence, to whom the adjacent church is dedicated. The … in the Soke liberty, and contains 776 inhabitants; St. Lawrence, the mother church, 310; St. Mary Kalendar, 867; St. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… lofty Purbeck marble pillars divide the central portion or nave from the aisles. The responds of the arcades are … castle in March 1559, through the intervention of William Lawrence, who obtained the charge from the queen, and was … the term of his life. 35 The next year the same William Lawrence was granted 'the castle green called Bewmondes as it …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… reserved rents on freehold properties containing 121 acres or thereabouts, including the parsonages of Hurstbourne with … with a further annual sum of 100 for an assistant master or curate, 80 a year to the officiating minister of Freefolk, … Trustees of Charitable Funds. (vi) In the parish of St. Lawrence.1. In 1712 Edward Grace by will charged his lands in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 1836; also a plated chalice and flagon. The church of ST. LAWRENCE consists of a nave and chancel in one range, of a … the north, now blocked up, with shafted jambs of late 13th or early 14th-century date, now much defaced and only visible … of the bishop; St. Bartholomew, Hyde, St. George, St. Lawrence, St. Michael in Jewry, St. Peter Whitebread (patrons …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of sixteen days, though frequently increased to twenty or twenty-four by temporary grants 3 and often in practice … with the fair of St. Ives and the famous mart of Holland or Boston. During the fair-time at Boston and Winchester even … to Thomas Devenissh which paid 12 d., one shop of Laurence Andevere which paid 8 d., 2 terragia of the Wardens …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… lay within the walls, but the east and west sokes, or suburbs, which entirely surrounded it, were for long … decay of the same walls.' 68 In the same year William Lawrence, who had lately purchased of Richard Bethell a … is one of the oldest churches in the city, that of St. Lawrence; past which a partly covered passage leads into the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… organization. Whether the gild merchant existed before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first … 'tenurial heterogeneity,' 12 nothing but 'a juxtaposition or patchwork of fragments of great estates.' 13 In other … Wall" extends to "la Giehalle" by the church of St. Lawrence and thence to the church of St. Maurice and thence …
A Dictionary of London
… offices and business houses. Name derived from the sign, or perhaps there may have been a windmill in the locality in … from the "sokam Sci Winwalli" near the church of St. Lawrence Jewry granted to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1293 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 23 were also assigned to the church. Winford-Eagle (St. Lawrence) WINFORD-EAGLE ( St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Dorchester, hundred of … upon a retentive clay, and altogether unsheltered by woods or plantations; the substratum contains ironstone, which …