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A History of the County of Oxford
… buildings'; 156 the second is the freestone which, as Plot says, has provided 'the gross of our buildings'. Writing … reputation of Headington freestone was still untarnished, Plot gives it high praise. 'The Quarry of Headington, scarce … Cart. i. 5. Wood, City of Oxford, ed. Clark, i. 577; Plot, Nat. Hist. Oxon. 352. St. Frideswide's Cart. ii. 20. …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… of Sir Philip Sidney. In 16001 he was implicated in the plot of the Earl of Essex and imprisoned in the Tower. 68 …
A History of the County of Worcester
… son Edward, 39 who was hanged for his share in Babington's Plot in 1586. 40 Edward was succeeded by his brother Thomas … to have written the famous letter betraying the Gunpowder Plot. 42 In his time Hindlip House was fitted up by Nicholas … priests, 43 and after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot it was carefully searched by Sir Henry Bromley of Holt …
A History of the County of Somerset
… fallow and partly newlybroken, though there was a small plot there 'which can be sown each year'. Other areas of … bk. of rents 1743, chief rent bk. 1780; DD/SS, bdle. 24 (plot where house 'lately stood'); DD/SAS (C/212), map of park …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of stones in 1884. 179 The mill was closed c. 1950. 180 A plot known as Fulling Mill croft in South field in the 18th … by 1833, as well as surveyors of highways. 192 A small plot of ground in the village was leased to the churchwardens …
A History of the County of Worcester
… search Hindlip House, after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, for Garnet and Oldcorne, 66 whom he brought to his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… But according to the 17th-century historian, Dr. Robert Plot, their stone was mixed with Taynton stone and used … Oxon. b 91(11). See above, p. 169. V.C.H. Oxon. ii. 266. Plot, Nat. Hist. Oxon. 76. The quarry he refers to is near … evidently Lyehill quarry. Arkell, Oxf. Stone, 40, quotes Plot as saying that this stone was used in the 17th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… open fields of Hornton were inclosed in 1766, however, a plot of land was set aside to maintain a schoolmaster to … poor children in Hornton to read, write, and count. This plot was occupied by the Giles family, and towards the end of … the vicar and parishioners gained possession of it. The plot was then let for 9 a year, and 34 s. was set aside to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… changing his faith. In 1687, on the outbreak of the Popish Plot, he fled to Horspath, where he was seized as a priest, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… legend one of the Winters at the time of the Gunpowder Plot, not daring to appear by day, used to meet his wife here … his brother Thomas were deeply implicated in the Gunpowder Plot. When they were fully satisfied that the plot was discovered the conspirators fled to Huddington, …