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... Henry VIII . to Sir Wm . Sharing- ton . ' The remains of this ancient nunnery - more extensive , perhaps , than those of any other house of the kind in the kingdom - have been fitted up as a private residence , and were long occupied as ...
... Henry VIII . to Sir Wm . Sharing- ton . ' The remains of this ancient nunnery - more extensive , perhaps , than those of any other house of the kind in the kingdom - have been fitted up as a private residence , and were long occupied as ...
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... Henry VIII . , who , resolving to raise six and excellent work on the same interesting subject , there is the * In Taylor's Annals of Health , says Curtis , in his own recent following : - " In the parish register of St Leonard's ...
... Henry VIII . , who , resolving to raise six and excellent work on the same interesting subject , there is the * In Taylor's Annals of Health , says Curtis , in his own recent following : - " In the parish register of St Leonard's ...
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... Henry III . made his second son , Edmund Plantagenet , surnamed Crouch- back ... Henry of Bolingbroke , this duchy and the estates passed to the crown , and were ... VIII . added many estates of dis- solved monasteries to the duchy , the ...
... Henry III . made his second son , Edmund Plantagenet , surnamed Crouch- back ... Henry of Bolingbroke , this duchy and the estates passed to the crown , and were ... VIII . added many estates of dis- solved monasteries to the duchy , the ...
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... Henry V. , who also specially confirmed to the burgesses that they should be toll free in Ireland , if his subjects of London , North- ampton , and Bristol were so . Henries VI . and VIII . , and Elizabeth , also granted charters of ...
... Henry V. , who also specially confirmed to the burgesses that they should be toll free in Ireland , if his subjects of London , North- ampton , and Bristol were so . Henries VI . and VIII . , and Elizabeth , also granted charters of ...
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... Henry VIII , at no more than £ 49 3s . 4d . , and was granted , 7 ° Edward VI , to Simon Weld- bury and Christopher Moreland . ' The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship here , and there are 15 daily schools , one of which is ...
... Henry VIII , at no more than £ 49 3s . 4d . , and was granted , 7 ° Edward VI , to Simon Weld- bury and Christopher Moreland . ' The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship here , and there are 15 daily schools , one of which is ...
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Acres aggregate amount ancient Anglesey annual annum archd arches Asaph Bangor bank bishop of Bangor bishop of St borough Brecon bridge building Builth Calvinistic Methodist canal Cardigan Carmarthen castle chapel chapelry Charities charter chiefly church commuted in 1839 corporation court daily schools David's day and Sunday discharged rectory discharged vicarage district division Earl edifice endowed erected extensive feet formed formerly gross income hamlet held Henry Henry VIII Houses hund Lancaster Leeds Leicester Lincoln Liverpool Living Llandaff London Lord Manchester mayor metropolis miles east miles north miles north-west miles south miles south-east miles west municipal North Wales north-east parish parish includes parliament Patron patronage perpetual curacy place of worship Poor rates principal Pwllheli railway rectory reign returned river Roman side society South Wales south-west Southwark streets Sunday schools Thames tion Tithes commuted tower town township union and county vicar vicinity wapentake wards Wesleyan Methodists Westminster
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Page 261 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 261 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in...
Page 21 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter...
Page 277 - Offences committed or alleged to have been committed on the High Seas, and other Places within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England...
Page 262 - Sir Stamford Raffles, and other eminent individuals, for the advancement of zoology, and the introduction and exhibition of subjects of the animal kingdom, alive or in a state of preservation.
Page 260 - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Page 261 - ... by the assigning of honorary rewards to works of great literary merit, and to important discoveries in literature ; and by establishing a correspondence with learned men in foreign countries, for the purpose of literary inquiry and information.
Page 206 - Further westward, about two miles, on the banks of the river, was the royal palace (at Westminster), ' an incomparable structure, guarded by a wall and bulwarks.' Between this and the city was a continued suburb, mingled with large and beautiful gardens and orchards belonging to the citizens, who were themselves every where known, and respected, above all others, for their ' civil demeanour, their goodly apparel, their table, and their discourse.
Page 270 - ... out-patients, many of whom were relieved with money, clothes, and other necessaries, to enable them to return to their several habitations.
Page 9 - Durham, having been created a peer by the style and title of Baron Durham, of the city of Durham, and of Lambton castle, in the county of Durham, a new writ for an MP for the county was issued January...