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... pews were added from time to time by individual members of the congregation at their own charge . This view receives ... pew at the back or eastward of the seat or pew of Mr. John Wareing . " This temporary expedient seems to have given ...
... pews were added from time to time by individual members of the congregation at their own charge . This view receives ... pew at the back or eastward of the seat or pew of Mr. John Wareing . " This temporary expedient seems to have given ...
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... pew he occupied , and the servants ' pew , to repair the glass windows and the flags , " with all things else belonging to them , " so that the bishop could not remove him , or order others to sit with him , for as he proudly writes ...
... pew he occupied , and the servants ' pew , to repair the glass windows and the flags , " with all things else belonging to them , " so that the bishop could not remove him , or order others to sit with him , for as he proudly writes ...
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... pews in the recent alterations at St. Nicholas's Church , which from time immemorial had belonged to the Bank Hall estate , and were specially mentioned in a Deed of Conveyance to the Earl of Derby in 1724 . John Forrest , stone mason ...
... pews in the recent alterations at St. Nicholas's Church , which from time immemorial had belonged to the Bank Hall estate , and were specially mentioned in a Deed of Conveyance to the Earl of Derby in 1724 . John Forrest , stone mason ...
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... pews were crushed beneath the fallen masonry . The tale of death and destruction is best told in the words of a writer in the local newspaper of the day : The dreadful calamity which happened at this place on Sunday last [ February 11th ] ...
... pews were crushed beneath the fallen masonry . The tale of death and destruction is best told in the words of a writer in the local newspaper of the day : The dreadful calamity which happened at this place on Sunday last [ February 11th ] ...
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... pew , went into the vestry to speak to the clergyman before the service commenced , and as he was returning he heard ... pews around him were broken to atoms and heaped with stones ; but that in which he sat sustained but little injury ...
... pew , went into the vestry to speak to the clergyman before the service commenced , and as he was returning he heard ... pews around him were broken to atoms and heaped with stones ; but that in which he sat sustained but little injury ...
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Page 87 - We ordain that the archbishops and all bishops within their several dioceses shall procure (as much as in them lieth) that a true note and terrier of all the glebes, lands, meadows, gardens, orchards, houses, stocks, implements, tenements, and portions of tithes, lying out of their parishes (which belong to any parsonage, or vicarage, or rural prebend) be taken by the view of honest men in every parish, by the appointment of the bishop (whereof the minister to be one), and be laid up in the bishop's...
Page 72 - PRESCOT, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three parish churches all in a row : Prescot for mugs ; Huyton for ploydes ; Childow for ringing and singing besides.
Page 15 - ... galleries on the north and south sides and at the west end, and to rearrange the pews on the ground floor in a regular and uniform manner.
Page 12 - ... following the natural line of the hill. Or, though usually on high ground, less dependent on natural slopes for protection. c. Rectangular or other enclosures of simple plan (including forts and towns of the Romano-British period). D. Forts consisting only of a mount with encircling moat or fosse. E. Fortified mounts, wholly or partly artificial, with remains of an attached court or bailey, or showing two or more such courts. F. Homestead moats, consisting of simple or compound enclosures formed...
Page xxiv - ... beyond the means of most sippers, seeing that in 1666 a pound of tea cost sixty shillings ; and money was then at a far higher value than in the present century. The multifarious ramifications of those traders j ustified the application of the term grocers, as well as to those ' engrossing ' merchandise, because they sold by the gross.
Page 12 - G. Enclosures, mostly rectangular, partaking of the form of F, but protected by stronger defensive works, ramparted and fossed, and in some instances provided with outworks. H. Ancient village sites protected by walls, ramparts or fosses. x. Defensive or other works which fall under none of the above headings.
Page 12 - Fortresses on hill -tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill. Or, though usually on high ground, less dependent on natural slopes for protection. c. Rectangular or other enclosures of simple plan (including forts and towns of the Romano-British period). D. Forts...