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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… was on the eve of being crowned with success. A strict and unintermittent watch at sea by the English fleet … Albany's passage. Month after month slipped away, and nothing was heard of him. To increase the confusion, … hopes of withdrawing him from his allegiance to the Duke, and inducing him, in conjunction with Margaret, to take the …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… (Dec. 1770.) Earl of Halifax, (Jan. 1771.) Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, (June 1771.) Earl of Dartmouth, (Aug. 1772.) … derived from groups of papers which it was found possible and thought most convenient to describe in a body. Where this has been done the papers all belong to the same year, and a schedule has been appended, so that any particular …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Pre-historic and Roman Westmorland PREHISTORIC AND ROMAN WESTMORLAND The difficulties normal to the … Pennines form a natural no-man's land, to the north-west and the south-west the county shares with Cumberland and …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… they assisted in providing security in the public rooms, and might be required to arrest or detain malefactors. They … designated in the lists below simply sergeants at arms' and individual sergeants serving particular officers. 1 They … This originally consisted of a salary of 12d a day and an allowance in lieu of diet of 15d a day. In 1663 these …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… which the hundred derives its name, was once a lordship, and had a castle, supposed to have been erected at a very … 1167, when it was destroyed by Owain Gwynedd, Cadwaladr, and Rhŷs, Prince of South Wales, who then reduced the whole … to Robert Banaster, who kept it for nearly four years, and built a town, which was afterwards burnt by Owain …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… PRESTON PRESTON, situated 22 km north-west of Gloucester and 5 km south-west of the Herefordshire town of Ledbury, covered 897 a. 22 and was one of Gloucestershire's smallest rural parishes. It … in the hundred of Longbridge (later part of Dudstone and King's Barton). 1 As a civil parish Preston was absorbed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish comprises by measurement 2609 acres, and is intersected by the road from Weymouth to Wareham. … of Salisbury: the great tithes have been commuted for 270, and the vicarial for 250; the impropriate glebe comprises 64 acres, and the vicarial 3. The church is very ancient, and had …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… which streams flow E. to the R. Nene, S.E. to the R. Tove, and W. to the R. Cherwell. The highest part is in the N., and the village of Preston Capes and the hamlet of Little Preston (2) both lie on the summit …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… its distinguishing apellative from Patric, younger son and ultimate heir of Thomas son of Gospatric de Workington. … as late as the 16th century (1577). The demesne lands and Hall of Preston Patrick were acquired by the Prestons … of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century and descended like the manor of Holme. In 1717, William …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the Weald Moors PRESTON UPON THE WEALD MOORS The manor and township of Preston upon the Weald Moors lies 5 km. … road from Preston to Hurleybrook, in existence by 1283, 4 and by Hurley brook. Ditches across the Weald Moors mark its boundaries on the west, north, and east. The eastern boundary partly coincides with the …