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Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… Agent to the Treasury was held by Clerks of the House of Commons. The salary attached to this office was … see O. C. Williams, The Clerical Organisation of the House of Commons 1661-1850 (Oxford 1954), 159-69. S. Lambert, … Acts (Cambridge 1971), 45-7. Rept. of Select Committee on House of Commons Offices and Fees 1833 (HC 1833 xii), 341-2; …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… marked during the 16th century, might have had one or both of two results. The Wiltshireman of the time, … might have stood a better chance of being returned to the House of Commons than his counterpart in any other county. … Seymourites, Greyites, and Puritans in support of the Suffolk claim and the two prisoners, and in such an alliance …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… him, provoked a miniature civil war lasting for a week or two and only brought to an end with the aid of cannon … joined in with a protest at the undermining of his pigeon-house by Thornhill's digging operations. It was perhaps a … of Pythouse, son of a local squire; 50 while Ashburnham's place was filled, by an act of poetic justice, by Walter …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… believed, by the hope that it would conduce to a docile House of Commons, 1 that decision put an end to experiment … the franchise should be confined to the governing body or extended to a larger number of citizens. The magistracies, … in the Visitation of 1623 nearly two-thirds find no place in its counterpart of 1673. 46 This change is mirrored …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… almost monopolized by these two families. A member of one or other of them represented the county in all but three … in 1557; and Sir Edward Penruddock who built the house at Compton Chamberlayne in the reign of Elizabeth I. 6 … election to Fox. 180 For the next twenty years the Fox and Suffolk interests competed for control of the borough, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the right of nomination being in the hands of a proprietor or a corporation of a boroughthose Vile rotten holes' as … outline these figures reflect the changes which have taken place in the history of parliamentary representation during … reform in the representation of the people of the Commons House of Parliament, and for retrenchment of the national …
Magna Britannia
… work, which he denominated, "A Chorographical Description or Survey of Devon," was in a great measure borrowed, as he … in folio, containing a "Chorographical Description or Parochial Survey" of the archdeaconry of Exeter. This … this he answers, "If the modern possessors have a mansion-house in them, and are there seated, not one of them is …
Magna Britannia
… He published in 1793, a History of the Manor and Manor-house of South-Winfield 2, as a specimen of the manner of his … been able to supply some notices of tombs now mutilated or removed, from a volume of church notes, taken about the …
Magna Britannia
… MSS., dated March 27th, 1733, desires that, "if by death, or any other accident, his MSS. should fall into other hands, … occasion given him to charge me with any wilful omission or sophisticated truth. I shall likewise make it my … Hals, and issued proposals, but the publication never took place. In the year 1803, the Rev. Richard Polwhele, …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… one was begun under Thos. Cromwell's injunctions of 1538 9 or after those injunctions were re-issued in 1547. A paper … register occur the Long Parliament marriages which took place in the years 16531658, some of which are signed by the … from elsewhere, are described as being 'buried out of the house of Mr. Downinge'. This gentleman was the parish …