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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… stood a windmill, which has been removed many years ago. Leland, who wrote in king Henry VIII.'s time, says, in his …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and Dorobernia; all names, however, of the same import. Leland has a singular conjecture, that this river was in the … It was afterwards written both Stur and Stura, and so Leland has it in his Itinerary, a name not singular to this … Danes, as the several fires that have happened in it. 6 Leland writes thus of the Stour, in his time. "The river of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 1274 inhabitants. This place, according to Leland, was the scene of a sanguinary battle between the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… dug up in the cemetery, and it contained, according to Leland, thirty-nine yew-trees, though others say twenty-four, … their name, was in a state of ruin prior to the time of Leland, who says, "Towards this extrem part of Pembrokeshire … of Gwernyvet. Of this baronial mansion and its lordship, Leland thus writes:"The Honor of Blaen Lleueni standing in a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… were exterminated several ages ago, and the deer, which in Leland's time appear to have prevented the growth of corn, … for asparagus, which it also precedes in the spring. In Leland's time the sides of the Snowdonian mountains were …
The Environs of London
… ofSydney, of the county of Sussex; she is mentioned by Leland, as being present at the coronation of Henry VII.'s … the arms of England within a border gobony Arg. and Azure. Leland's Coll. vol. iv. 2d edit. p. 220. Royal Household … published by the Society of Antiquaries, 4to. 1790. Leland's Coll. vol. iv. p. 233. 2d ed. Gaynesford bears Arg. …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… Camden's Britannia, folio 1789, Vol. II, p. 376, and Leland. Mr. W. de Grey Birch (B.M.) in his "Saxon Abbots" …
Magna Britannia
… the haven, is a square tower, built, as we are informed by Leland, in the reign of King Edward IV., for the protection …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 410-11, 473; Y.A.J. iii. 241; Test. Ebor. ii, pp. 20, 50. Leland, Itin. ed. Toulmin Smith, i. 44. Test. Ebor. vi, pp. …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… Great Roman Ways, printed at the end of the 6th volume of Leland's I tin. edit. 1711, p. 93. edit. 1769. Epiacum is … Coludi ubi amita Regis Ecfridi Ebba Abbatissa fuit.Leland's Coll. vol. I. p. 591. And I presume she left her …