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… General history Population and longevity Population. The population of this county at an … 89 92 530 450 497 Beaumont parish 42 48 42 49 140 219 270 St. Bees parish, including Whitehaven and all its chapelries … him, and died at the age of 91, lived together 64 years. Anthony and Isabella Walker, who died at the ages of 82 and …
Magna Britannia
… General history Principal gentry seats, forests and deer-parks Principal Seats, Halls, Mansions, &c. the … Durant-hall Chesterfield Sir George Colvile, (in right of his Lady.) Adam Barker Slater, Esq. Ednaston-lodge Brailsford … Locko, Longford, Markeaton, Norton-hall, Shipley, Stanton, and Willersley. Forests and Deer-Parks. THE King's forest of …
Magna Britannia
… It was some time after the Domesday survey, that the Prior and convent of Launceston, and the Prior and convent of … possessions of the Bloyowes, whose seat was at Polrode, in St. Tudy, passed, by female heirs, to the families of Tinten, … Hacumbes, a part of whose estates passed to the Carews of Anthony; the Bodrugans, whose large possessions were …
Magna Britannia
… in Normandy, (by English writers called Moreton,) and of Cornwall, the King's half brother, and those who held … them by the Earl of Cornwall. The Prior and convent of St. Michael had one manor; another had been taken away from … Qu. Amel in St. Kew Gri Torstin (under the Earl). Antone Anthony in the hundred of East The Abbot of Tavistock …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in French, frankalmoign, in Latin, libera eleemosyna, and pura et perpetua eleemosyna, that is, in free alms, or … alien priories, four. Two commanderies of the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and fifteen hospitals, besides several … the example of William Wickham, bishop of Winchester, in his foundation of New-college in that university, obtained …
Magna Britannia
… General history Religious houses, boroughs, markets and fairs Monasteries, Colleges, and ancient Hospitals. The … at Carswell in Plymtree, and an alien priory dedicated to St. James, near Exeter. The Premonstratensians had an abbey … licence for founding a Carthusian monastery on any of his estates in the bishopric of Exeter 1: but it does not …
Magna Britannia
… General history Religious houses, boroughs, markets and fairs Monasteries, Colleges, and Ancient Hospitals. The … a considerable abbey at Darley, near Derby, removed from St. Helen's, in the outskirts of that town. They had priories … that they had one also at Waingrif. The brethren of St. Lazarus had a preceptory, or hospital at Locko, formerly …
Magna Britannia
… General history Religious houses, boroughs, markets and fairs Monasteries, Colleges, and ancient Hospitals. The … at Lanercost. The Benedictines had a priory of monks at St. Bees, and another at Wetheral, both cells to the abbey of St. Mary in York. The same order had a nunnery at …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from its situation, those two noble rivers, the Thames and the Medway, must not be forgotten, the former of these … and sometimes, though but very seldom, as far as St. Helen's, in Barming. At Rochester-bridge, where the tide … the bishop of Rochester, and formed a considerable part of his revenue, as second to the archbishop, and another to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… BRITAIN was in the state above-mentioned when Csar turned his thoughts to the invasion of it, at which time the Romans … masters of almost all Europe, the best part of Africa, and the richest countries of Asia. Whilst they were … parts opposite to it,) they had very little knowledge, and what they had did not excite their desires to extend …