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A History of the County of Warwick
… built by John Hales in 1586 was a stone mansion with a long front flanked by polygonal domed turrets. In the centre …
A History of the County of Warwick
… was from about 1240 to about 1290, when either a single long-lived Thomas, or two successive Thomases, were known as … been part of the priory's estate. The close called the Long field, included in the endowment of Swillington's …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Lord Aston of Forfar, to the corporation in 1655. 45 Not long afterwards the corporation was involved in a dispute …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Property in Stivichall formerly belonging to a chantry in Sutton Coldfield church, which had been founded by one Thomas … farming and inclosure was not, however, to survive for long. About 1740 600 acres of the open fields were inclosed, … site. The new house, the planting of the mile-long avenue of three rows of oaks, and the complete …
A History of the County of Warwick
… were witnesses to a charter of about 1250, 40 and not long afterwards Alice, widow of Thomas de Stoke and daughter … about that date, the house on this ground, which had long previously been demolished, had been that of the Holles …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Old Manor House 44 was a T-shaped building consisting of a long timber-framed wing on a north-south axis, and, … waste, some features of agrarian life in Sowe had a very long existence. The ten villeins with five ploughs on the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of the parish consisted of a strip of land about two miles long and half a mile wide, on the south and west of the …
A History of the County of Durham
… uplands to Wearmouth. The peninsula is about 800 yds. long and about 250 yds. from bank to bank of the river at its … by gas. 'We behold,' says the Durham Advertiser, 'a city long notorious for its nocturnal darkness become at once … clothiers. The manufacture of mustard and of carpets has long been associated with Durham, but mustard-making is now …
A History of the County of Durham
… right or liberty could evade. 1 In Durham, during the long vacancy after Philip (120817), the one ray of hope was … at the prospect of losing their chief holiday resort. The long-standing dispute as to the Archbishop of York's right to … lost. He built the magnificent hall at the castle, so long attributed to Bishop Hatfield, and in all probability …
A History of the County of Durham
… insurrection. 8 In 1544, one of the most severe in the long series of plagues befell the city and neighbourhood. 9 … 12 The interest of the early years, at all events, of the long reign of Elizabeth is largely religious, and will not be … assistants bore office during good behaviour and for so long a period only as the bishop should think fit. An oath …