Search
A History of the County of York
… three after 1474; 55 late in the 15th century two weavers, William Robinson and William Wyndowes, took on two and three apprentices … Wool. Ind. 31. Test. Ebor. iii, nos. 24, 30. York Mem. Bk. i. 59–60, 187; ii. 126, 159–60; York Civ. Rec. ii. 151. York …
A History of the County of York
… were sons of citizens who had thriven to gentility, like William Vescy or Robert Sallay; others, like Miles Metcalfe, … notables, likewise, maintained a residence in the city. William Latimer had an inn in Coney Street in 1377, and Sir … 1307–49 was 59 as compared with 26 in the reign of Edward I; and, as has been shown, this increase was spread over all …
A History of the County of York
… war of civic factions which had driven one old alderman, William Holbek, to sanctuary in the Dominican friary. Duke … him on Lammas Day. Certain traitors were dealt with and William Todd and Richard York, mayor and alderman … Davies, York Rec. 38–44. Ibid. 53 sqq.; York Civ. Rec. i. 8–11, 15–16. York Civ. Rec. i. 2–3, 11; Davies, York Rec. …
A History of the County of York
… of the nova custuma to native merchants. 39 Edward I was only intermittently in York, but the city was the hub … which was put into a posture of defence in 1323 under William Latimer's captaincy. After discussion in a great … in the charge of royal governors, though on 22 July William Frost (already seven times mayor) was associated with …
A History of the County of York
… £120 yearly (reduced to £100 in 1322) granted in 1318 to William Roos of Helmsley in exchange for the castle of … and were said to be 'persons not able in havour (i.e. lacking substance), feeble and decrepit'. 88 They were, … and others of the city and county. 99 e.g. York Mem. Bk. i. 32, 62; A. Raine, Med. York, 211–13. York Corp. Rec. D/1, …
A History of the County of York
… not very effective for Simon Quixley served in 1381–3, William Selby in 1385 and 1387–8, Robert Savage in 1384 and 1391–2, William Frost in 1396–7, 1400–4, and 1406, and Henry Wyman in … election was already restricted to the probi homines, i.e. the aldermen. 37 The city custumal tells us that the …
A History of the County of York
… among others. 10 In these circles, moreover, according to William of Worcester, the troubles of the 15th century had … English in France: Hen. VI, ii (2), 774–5; Paston Letters, i. 193–4. C. Schofield, Life and Reign of Edw. IV, i. 134. Cal. S.P. Ven. i, no. 370. Three 15th Century Chron. …
The Letters of William Freeman, London Merchant, 1678-1685
London Record Society, volume 36. The 686 letters written by William Freeman, a sugar planter and slave trader who had moved from the Caribbean to London to combine these pursuits with the work of a general commission merchant trading to the English West Indies, are a rare source of information about late-seventeenth-century trans-Atlantic enterprise and London business. Selections reproduced here are addressed to partners, agents, employees, correspondents and customers in Freeman’s native Leeward Islands, Africa, Madeira, Portugal, France, Ireland, Scotland and the West of England.
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 92 and about the time that the Dictum was issued Henry I altered the feudal tenure of Broseley, enfeoffing the … a London schoolmaster. 11 Myddleton sold it in 1601 to William Baldwyn (d. 1614) of Elsich, who was evidently tenant … becoming a relic, 51 commanding little respect. In 1725 William Roper was fined 2 s. 6 d. for refusing to join in a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the priory of Christ-church, in Canterbury, but by whom, I have no where found; and it continued part of the … who died in 1792, whose descendants assigned them to Mr. William Baldock, brewer, of Canterbury, and they were again … to St. Leger, and Sir John St. Leger, in the reign of William and Mary, passed it away to Sir Henry Furnese, bart. …