Collectanea Topographica Et Genealogica, Volume 5

Front Cover
Frederic Madden, Bulkeley Bandinel, John Gough Nichols
J. B. Nichols and son, 1838 - Genealogy
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 352 - lane." Of the latter place (now Fetter lane) Stowe says in his Survey : " Fewter lane stretcheth south, [from Oldbourne, now Holborn] into Fleet street, by the east end of Saint Dunstanes church, and is so called of Fewters (or idle people) lying there, as in a way leading to gardens; but the same is now of
Page 280 - Afterwards knighted. He was of the legal profession, and successively Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Keeper ; and is said to have first introduced the full-bottomed wig into Westminster hall. He chiefly resided at Kensington, was ancestor in the sixth degree to the present Earl of Bradford, compounded for his estate by payment of 865/.
Page 237 - his wife, for their lives, and the life of the survivor, remainder to the heirs of their bodies, and in default of issue to the right heirs of
Page 223 - a lease of the site and demesne lands was granted to John Uvedale, by indenture under the seal of the Court of Augmentations, to hold for the term of twenty-one years from the feast of St. Michael the Archangel last past, rendering for the same, and for the lands and tenements, meadows and pastures, lying among the land of Sir Ralph
Page 248 - in 1736, and on the 22d of April 1745, was appointed one of the Judges in the Court of King's Bench, when he was also knighted. He married in 1725, Martha, eldest dau. of James Lyde, of Stanton Wick, in the county of Somerset, esq. She died 15 May 1758, and he, 7 Nov.
Page 352 - k Philip Rossiter was Master of the children of the Queen's Revels, by patent dated Jan. 4, 1609-10, and under that authority manager of the play-house in the Whitefriars. See Collier's Annals of the Stage, vol. i. pp. 372, 390, 396. In 1603 was bapt. Dudley, son of Philipp Rocetor, " Musitioner.
Page 258 - Citie ; and in all, from the first foundation vnto the dissolution, sixe hundred sixtie and three persons of Qualitie were here interred. In the Quire were nine Tombes of Alabaster and Marble, inuironed with barres or strikes of iron : one Tombe in the body of the Church, coped also with iron, and
Page 43 - tail, with remainder to his other children successively in fee simple ; and he appointed his wife Alice and his son Henry executors of his will, and his nephew Derick Gortes, Christopher Woodward, Citizen and Vintner of London, and Thomas Harper, carpenter, overseers. This will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 13th Dec. 1563. Joan Leke married Martin Van

Bibliographic information