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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for short stretches. The name Everleigh comes from the Old English eofor, a wild boar, and leah, a clearing, 3 a … by her first husband, 57 who succeeded to his father's English lands and the earldom of Leicester in 1239. 58 …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… at Newcastle on Tyne in 1542 while leading the van of the English army into Scotland. By his will dated 10 September … and somewhat unusual example of early 17th-century English domestic architecture. Traces remain, however, mainly … tones of white and blue-grey, and generally attributed to English looms. En suite with this is a smaller drawing-room …
A History of the County of Bedford
… made in 1652 a silver-gilt porringer noted by Cripps ( Old English Plate, 374). The flagon is of 1694, given 1695, and …
A History of the County of Rutland
… her 22nd year. The tomb bears an inscription in Latin and English. 101 Against the west wall of the north transept is … infants on a cushion. The inscription includes Latin and English verses. 102 Occupying the whole of the east wall of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… work' as the surveyor remarked. The custom of Borough English held in this manor. 53 Another peculiarity of this …
Magna Britannia
… some of the aged people did not well understand the English tongue, as he himself had informed him. It is not … but is now kept up only as a school for teaching English, writing, &c.: the master has a salary of 30l. per …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… In 1039 the grant was confirmed by Harthacnut, King of the English and the Danes. 8 It is related that Herbert, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… bear fern, the latter syllable, berge, signifying in old English a little hill; an etymology well suiting the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the manuring of the neighbouring lands; others that the English Saxons might dig them, for the same uses that the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… son Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, author of the Memorials of English Affairs, 5 was practically sacked by the Royalists …