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A History of the County of Lancaster
… to the north, and gave a name to the hundred, there is little distinction about its history. The principal family, … Two oxgangs of land were given later. 21 The grant was of little benefit to the monks, as they received only 2 marks …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and in the Civil War to Charles I, but there is little to show how the people in general regarded these … without plinth except to the tower, and has externally little architectural detail. The roofs are covered with stone … 33 Croxton Abbey d. J. Leicester oc. 1488 Br. Edmund Green 34 c. 1500 Br. Richard Docker 35 oc.1548 John Andrew 36 …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Here a turn to the north-west leads into the main village street, on either side of which are quaint thatched … stands the manor farm, while about half way down the main street a low gate leads to the church of St. Mary up a gravel … whole parish is loam with a subsoil of chalk, and ordinary green crops are grown on the 4,493 acres of arable land. Only …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Middleton Church Langley's work seems to have stood little more than a hundred years, for the greater part of the … Assheton Chapel, is modern and very plain, but retains a little old work in a leafpattern cornice on the chancel side. … placed over each figure.' 13 In many parts the window is little better than a patchwork of mutilated fragments. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and charities NORTH MEOLS NORTH MEOLS BIRKDALE There is little to state regarding the history of the parish apart … example of the squire's family there seems to have been little refusal to attend church for religious reasons. 65 The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 'Four miles further [than Lydiate] lies Ormskirk, a neat little town with four well-built streets crossing each other. … Catholics who fondly prefer this now violated spot . At a little distance east of Burscough, on an eminence, stands … several persons were excommunicated 'for standing in the street at service time and giving the churchwardens evil …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… to the monks on the foundation of the abbey in 1127. A little later it is found to be held of the abbey by knight's … The church of ST. MICHAEL 35 stands on rising ground a little to the east of the Castle Hill, 36 and is a small …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… peaceful history; and since the Reformation there is but little to relate. The chief resident family, the Fleetwoods … the tower arch opened out, and a west gallery removed. 12 Little or nothing can be said as to the development of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… bailiffs at their granges, and the resident gentry were little more than yeomen, cultivating their estates and … with each other. The destruction of the monasteries made little practical change, though it introduced an important … clothing. This is represented by rent-charges on Marton Green and Webster's farms. 87 John Hodgson in 1761 left land …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 28 ft., and is 56 ft. long, the nave being 96 ft. long. Little evidence remains of the early history of the building, … by a charge of 1 a year on a house in Tithebarn Street, Liverpool, known as the 'Hole-in-the-Wall.' This … is distributed by the vicar of Farnworth. At Barrow Green in Widnes was Knight's house, the rents of which had …