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Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… St. Andrews in the abbey church of Holyrood on 8th August [Leland's Collectanea, IV., pp. 287300. Tytler, IV., pp. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… proved May 10, 1552. Here it may be proper to mention what Leland the antiquary has said, who lived in the time of King … of Henry VII. Sir Roger Townsend, son of this judge, (whom Leland says, now living,) was also a gentleman of great … Thomas Hansard; so great and suprising is the mistake that Leland has made relating to this family. John Townsend, Esq. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… good account in Yorkshire, which I presume was her name, Leland says she was of mean birth, and born at Pontfract, in … a fee, and valued at 20 l. per ann. beyond all reprises. 9 Leland observes that it was a college, with an hospital …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Neville made keeper also of Gateshead Tower, described by Leland as a "strong wardyd gate," standing on the bridge. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… very inconsiderable when the Norman survey was made. Leland mentions it as a poor fishing-town; and adds, the … one of its Saxon proprietors, of whom mention occurs in Leland: the manor passed from its ancient lords to the Percy …
Magna Britannia
… settled there before the foundation of the priory. See Leland. The higher thanes were supposed to have been nearly …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Hist. p. 216. Dugd. Bar. vol. ii. p. 77. Chauncy, p. 205. Leland's Coll. vol. i. part ii. p. 485. Spelman's Gloss. p. …
Magna Britannia
… daughters of Brechan, another King of Wales, mentioned by Leland and William of Worcester, such as Keyne, Nectan, … been a noble female of high estimation, came attended, as Leland informs us from an ancient history of her life, by … St. Piran's being March 5, St. Keverne's April 8. Leland says that the patron of this chapel was Machutus, a …
Magna Britannia
… locality. In part of an old French chronicle, printed in Leland's Collectanea, it is said that the enemy landed at …
Magna Britannia
… some time settled at Penryn, became afterwards, as Leland says, united to the Arwenick branch. The heiress of an …