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The medieval records of a London City church
… index A - Z CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Bedsteads, standing of, 417/1, should read Bedsteads, standing. Norwegian … lylye white hands.'" Wickham Legg's Clerk's Book, p. 118. Henry Bradshaw Society. Dishes, 38; censer, 70; paschal, 64; … of St. Mary at Hill (1362), as one of the executors of Richard de Hakeneye. Hakeneye was sheriff of London in 1321, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Glossary GLOSSARY OF THE MEANING ATTACHED TO THE TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN THE INVENTORY AbacusThe uppermost member of a capital. AcanthusA plant represented in Classical and … miniature urn accompanying a cinerary urn and often of similar shape. AchievementIn heraldry, the shield …
Lincoln Wills
… Words marked with a dagger are explained in the Glossary of Volume I Agnus Dei, an. A cake of wax stamped with the figure of the Lamb bearing a cross or … standing upon, and piercing the dragon. From 1 to 34 Henry viii its value was 7 s. 6 d. (See N.E.D.). 35, 100 …
Lincoln Wills
… GLOSSARY A Aglet, Aglytte. An ornament, used ( a) properly of a gold or silver tag or pendant attached to a fringe; … Vestment Amteyne. An anthem. 25 Anenst. In the presence of, before. 113 Anourements, annowrments. The ornaments, … abroad, at Bruges or Calais or elsewhere. From the time of Richard II until 1558 the foreign staple was at Calais (C. …
Cardiff Records
… Glossary CHAPTER XIII. A Glossary OF OBSCURE, OBSOLETE, TECHNICAL AND NON-ENGLISH WORDS AND … the daily Office of the Catholic Church. Ap, ab (Welsh.) "Son of." Apprise, appraise. To estimate the value of an … of the Revenues of the Crown, established by King Henry VIII. to deal with the confiscated Church property. …
A Survey of London
… ii. 169. abstinecnie, i. 83. aburn, auburn: the hair of his head aburn,' ii. 57. achates (oates), provisions, i. … vnto, of: 'Sir John Aller sometime of counsell vnto Kin Henry the eight,' i. 132. countenance: 'for greater … King poynting a Custos,' i. 301. practise, to intrigue: 'Richard, Duke of Gloucester, then Protector, practised for …
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… Glossary of Terms Used in the Medieval Fur Trade GLOSSARY OF TERMS … skins imported to London in the early sixteenth century. Henry VIII possessed a 'cloke of elkes skinnes lined with … the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gesner, himself the son of a skinner, who, in the Historia Animalium which he …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Gloucester GLOUCESTER, a city, an inland port, the head of a union, and a county of itself, locally in the hundred of … here in the reign of John, on whose death, in 1216, his son Henry III. was crowned in the abbey church, by the Bishop of …
Survey of London
… Gloucester Gate XXXIGLOUCESTER GATE The imposing block of building known as Gloucester Gate (Plates 53 and 54), … for a single year. No. 3 is still Cecilia Farrer; No. 4 Henry Sullivan Grme, Eliza Wyatt having resided there only 3 … The second name in the original leases is always that of Richard Mott, glazier (see also Cambridge Terrace), and he …
A History of the County of Oxford
… When the monasteries were finally dissolved, the supply of students for Gloucester Hall came to an end, and the site … Robert Blades. 10 On 16 Jan. 1576 Stock resigned, 11 and Henry Russell, fellow of St. John's, was 'elected'. This … hall, but William Catesby and William Percy, the second son of the Catholic 8th Earl of Northumberland, were members …