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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… mentioned, recited; reserving his account of the religious houses and hospitals, and a further account of the … in 1558, that was terrible in its consequence. All the houses of the little hamlet of Sneinton, which adjoins to … by law, made by his authority with the consent of both Houses, so we shall not conceive ourselves bound to obey one …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Section IV Religious Houses, Churches, and Hospital SECTION IV. Religious Houses, Churches, and Hospitals. We are now arrived at that … Mary." "Besides these Seated in the Town, These Religious Houses had Land and Houses in Nottingham. The Rectory of St. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Town happened to be of the conquering side, there are many houses new builded, and the greatest part of the good Barley … inferior to Nottingham both in one and the other. The Houses of Leicester in general, are not so lofty as those of … and Coopers, was fold, which has given an handsome row of Houses built along this bank, the name of TimberHill. On the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… forest I observed, raising and raised, many capital farm-houses; and the adjoining fields, belonging thereto, rich in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Inventory records no town, and no more than ten dwelling houses, large and small together. One of these, at High … Kimble and Hambleden, may have been comfortable country houses or farms; two, at Ellesborough and Ixhill near Oakley, … and a still smaller supply of large and civilized houses. iii. Ecclesiastical and Secular Architecture. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… xxiv., 35.) The Inventory also mentions three country-houses or farms, all of which seem to have been fairly … without reaching great size or splendour. One of these houses, partly uncovered in 1862, was near Grove Hill Farm, … and must be brought from elsewhere, only the large Manor houses or halls are, as a rule, built of that material. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… use seems to have been made of the dissolved religious houses of the neighbourhood as stone-quarries; thus Abingdon … Eynsham Abbey, Oseney Abbey, Rewley Abbey and the Friars' houses in the city. Headington stone, particularly those beds … alone represents the Cistercian Abbey of Rewley. Of the houses of the four orders of Friars still less survives; a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… was in this material; previous to this date most of the houses were no doubt of timber, but the expansion of London … the abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, the chief monastic houses in the district are the Charterhouse and the Priory of … the episcopal palaces of Lambeth and Fulham, and large houses such as Holland House, Kensington, and Lindsey House, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… for the more or less prosperous among them to dwell in houses built and furnished in Roman fashion. It may be worth … Exposita. Saffron Waldon, 1848, p. 89). Farms and country-houses.At Ridgewell, on a hillside sloping to the Colne, part … seems, correctly) on the Ordnance Survey maps. Four small houses have been dug up and planned in the parishes of …