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Survey of London Monograph
… records from 1490 to 1499, although his name is not given and none of those named by Lant in this reign, R. Lagisse, W. … PULMAN (1822). See Clarenceux (36). 26. ALBERT WILLIAM WOODS (1838). See Garter (27). 27. GEORGE WILLIAM COLLEN … for approval; considered himself, Courthope and A. W. Woods the 'stay' of the College; Woods the only herald to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a parish covering 4,511 acres, lies 6 m. N.W. of Weymouth and occupies a roughly rectangular area of land, with a … of the S. Dorset Ridgeway, here over 500 ft. above O.D. and rising to a maximum of 776 ft. at the Hardy Monument on … two valleys, rises again to a sharp E.W. ridge of Portland and Purbeck Stone at a height of between 400 and 500 ft. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by Porth, a Saxon pirate, who, with his sons Bieda and Maegla, landed at Portsmouth at the commencement of the … been the first that visited England, landed here in 787, and having killed the prpositus, or governor, obtained … of incontinency: during the same reign it was attacked and plundered by Earl Godwin, in his rebellion against his …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Portree PORTREE, a parish, mostly in the Isle of Skye, and wholly in the county of Inverness; including the islands of Fladda, Rasay, and Rona; and containing 3574 inhabitants, of whom 510 are in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… place, represents part of a former chapelry and township in Much Wenlock parish; it lies between Barrow, Benthall, and Willey, c. 4 km. north-east of Much Wenlock. It was entirely agricultural save during the 18th and 19th centuries when there were extractive and pottery …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… Possessions of the priory City and suburbs of London THE CITY OF LONDON AND SUBURBS The possessions in London are confirmed in the charter of Henry II, cir. 1176, 1 and consist of: the place in Smithfield where the church was …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… 1 enumerating the grants made by his grandfather, Henry I, and since. Another charter of the same king1187. 2 A charter … consisted of lands, tenements, rents, services, meadows, woods, tithes, fruits, oblations, &c. In 1543 the king … homages, reliefs, wards, services in villeinage, escheats, woods, meadows, and feedings. Three years later, viz. in …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… in 1835 offered to purchase an estate in Charnwood Forest and to present it to the Cistercian Order. The offer was accepted, and De Lisle bought 222 acres of land with the aid of a loan … cottage, but before long temporary domestic buildings and a chapel were constructed. The chapel was consecrated in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The living is a rectory, united to that of Battlesden, and valued in the king's books at 10. 19. 4. Pott, with … a chapelry, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of … 1393 acres; the prevailing soil is clay. The Macclesfield and Congleton canal passes through the chapelry. Freestone …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The modern parish covers about 780 hectares. It is long and narrow and slopes generally S.E., drained by small streams flowing … entirely covered by Boulder Clay except around the village and in the S.E. where limestones are exposed along the valley …