A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate & Market Towns ...& the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions; Illustrated by Maps of the Different Counties & Islands; ... and a Plan of London and Its Environs .... AtlasS. Lewis & Company, 1831 |
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... fair is held on Holy Thursday . The living is a rectory , in the archdeaconry of Mid- dlesex , and diocese of London ... Fairs for cat- tle , horses , pigs , and cheese , are held on April 25th and September 13th . ACTON - BEAUCHAMP , a ...
... fair is held on Holy Thursday . The living is a rectory , in the archdeaconry of Mid- dlesex , and diocese of London ... Fairs for cat- tle , horses , pigs , and cheese , are held on April 25th and September 13th . ACTON - BEAUCHAMP , a ...
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... fair on March 25th and 26th , for cattle and horses ; and a statute fair is held on Oct. 11th , and the two following days . St. Albans is styled a borough in the record of Domesday , and is stated to have contained forty - six ...
... fair on March 25th and 26th , for cattle and horses ; and a statute fair is held on Oct. 11th , and the two following days . St. Albans is styled a borough in the record of Domesday , and is stated to have contained forty - six ...
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... fairs are held on January 27th , March 24th , May 18th , July 28th , October 17th , and December 1st . A court leet ... fair is held on Midsummer - day . There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists . ALCONBURY - WESTON , county ...
... fairs are held on January 27th , March 24th , May 18th , July 28th , October 17th , and December 1st . A court leet ... fair is held on Midsummer - day . There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists . ALCONBURY - WESTON , county ...
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... fairs are on Whit - Tuesday and the 8th of November . The living is a discharged vicarage , with the perpetual curacy of ... fair . Constables and other officers are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor . The living is a ...
... fairs are on Whit - Tuesday and the 8th of November . The living is a discharged vicarage , with the perpetual curacy of ... fair . Constables and other officers are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor . The living is a ...
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... fairs on the first Saturday in March and November . On the eve of each fair the inhabitants of the adjacent townships send deputies to attend the bailiff in the ceremony of procla- mation ; after which they keep watch and ward in the ...
... fairs on the first Saturday in March and November . On the eve of each fair the inhabitants of the adjacent townships send deputies to attend the bailiff in the ceremony of procla- mation ; after which they keep watch and ward in the ...
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200 private benefaction 200 royal bounty 24 miles ancient annum archdeaconry and diocese Bart Berks Bishop Cambridge castle chapel chapelry Cheshire Chester church is dedicated coll containing county of YORK county palatine court leet dedicated to St diocese of Exeter diocese of Lichfield diocese of Lincoln diocese of Norwich diocese of Salisbury diocese of York discharged rectory discharged vicarage Earl Edward endowed with 200 English architecture erected formerly George Gloucester hamlet held Henry Hereford Herefordshire Herts hundred inhabitants James John Kent king's books Lancashire Liverpool living London Lord Manchester market town Mary Messrs Middlesex miles E. N. E. miles N. W. miles S. E. Oxford parish parliamentary grant patronage perpetual curacy place of worship population is returned rated rectory reign river Roman Somerset Somersetshire Southampton Staffordshire style of English Suffolk Surrey Sussex Thomas tower township wapentake ward Wesleyan Methodists western division William worship for Wesleyan
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Page 253 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 111 - Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Page 123 - The living is a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry of Richmond and diocese of Chester, of the clear yearly value of HO/, with a glebe-house.
Page 8 - Ilchester, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford ; Rev.
Page 102 - The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of...
Page 215 - Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £7- 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is dedicated to St.
Page 254 - IV. : the right of election is vested in the inhabitants paying scot and lot...
Page 238 - The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry of Middlesex and diocese of London ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St.
Page 280 - Mary's is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the dean and chapter of Lichlield, and rated at .£10; gross income £518.
Page 229 - An antient manor-house of the Lacies in this town was lately used as a workhouse. The chief manufacture of the place is .that of cotton : the market is on Wednesday. The Leeds and Liverpool canal passes near the town. The neighbourhood yields slate, coal, lime, and freestone.