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A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1
The first of two volumes, covering six wapentakes in the western half of the North Riding. It includes an account of the borough of Richmond.
A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2
Describes five wapentakes, mainly in the north and east of the North Riding. It includes accounts of the borough of Scarborough and the liberty of Whitby, as well as the North Yorkshire moors and parts of Cleveland.
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… drawn scraps of information from a wide variety of sources and touched on subjects dealt with in a great number of … however, would be served by the listing of all sources and secondary authorities consulted. Details of some of them … contemporary attitudes, but as references therein to furs and skinners are brief and incidental, they have nearly all …
Three fifteenth-century chronicles
… the noble londe of Surrye 1 was some tyme a greate kynge and a myghty that was named Dioclesyan, and he was the moste worthiest kynge than levinge on erthe, as the story seythe. And this brevelye to procede, he had by dyverse wiffes xxxiij …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… on in the Order set, to sum up your Lordship's Evidence; and, those Gentlemen of the House of Commons will likewise … sum up theirs, for the Close of Proofs in Matter of Fact; and, that your Lordship do it with all Clearness and … Ecclesiastical or Temporal Powers, exceed those modest Bounds set and appointed for them, by the Sobriety and …
Alumni Oxonienses
… of Winchester 1600, bishop of Lichfield & Coventry 1609, and of London 1610 (of the Inner Temple 1611), archbishop of … 1627); this scholar is variously described, as a clergyman and as a son of Sir Maurice (George, son of Maurice, died M.P. for Guildford in 1645), and also as a son or grandson of Sir Thomas Abbot, of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Abbas and Temple Combe ABBAS AND TEMPLE COMBE Abbas and Temple Combe in 1838 Abbas and … Weston (Dors.) and Kington Magna (Dors.) on its eastern boundary. It is roughly rectangular in shape, measuring 1.5 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish comprises by measurement 1884 acres of land; and contains good building-stone of the granite species, and limestone, both of which are quarried. The living is a … in 1837. A Roman road once passed along the western boundary of the parish, and in its tract coins of the Roman …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Abberton AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN NORTH-EAST ESSEX. ACCREDITED TO A … the tower is of red brick. The roofs are tiled. The Nave and probably a chancel were built or rebuilt about the middle … (when the chancel was rebuilt on the old foundations) and again subsequently. The Church, Plan Architectural …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Abbess Roding AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN CENTRAL AND S.W. ESSEX. ACCREDITED TO A DATE ANTERIOR TO 1714, … (b)xlii. N.E. (c)xlii. S.W.) Abbess Roding is a parish and small village about 5 miles N.N.E. of Chipping Ongar. The …