The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales: Adapted to the Most Recent Statistical Arrangements, and Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication, with a Complete County-atlas of England ... Maps of Wales, and an Appendix, Containing ... the Census of 1841, Volume 3A. Fullarton & Company, 1851 |
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... court of Queen about the commencement of the last century . The Elizabeth , and others . Caron's almshouses , consist- families of Howard and Leigh have chapels in the ing of accommodation for 7 poor widows , were interior , and several ...
... court of Queen about the commencement of the last century . The Elizabeth , and others . Caron's almshouses , consist- families of Howard and Leigh have chapels in the ing of accommodation for 7 poor widows , were interior , and several ...
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... courts of Queen's bench and of common pleas at Westminster have concurrent jurisdiction . This court saves the time and expense of sending to London for writs in cases of arrests . It is held at Lancaster every assize , and has ...
... courts of Queen's bench and of common pleas at Westminster have concurrent jurisdiction . This court saves the time and expense of sending to London for writs in cases of arrests . It is held at Lancaster every assize , and has ...
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... court are the chancellor of the duchy , vice - chancellor , registrar , examiner , and chief clerk ; with seal - keeper , 41097 clerks in court , messenger , attorney - general , and two Queen's counsel . It sits twice a - year at ...
... court are the chancellor of the duchy , vice - chancellor , registrar , examiner , and chief clerk ; with seal - keeper , 41097 clerks in court , messenger , attorney - general , and two Queen's counsel . It sits twice a - year at ...
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... court . The aldermen and recorder were empowered to act as justices within the precincts . No exclusive jurisdiction , criminal or civil , was granted . The civil court , or court of pleas , was appointed to take cognizance of all debts ...
... court . The aldermen and recorder were empowered to act as justices within the precincts . No exclusive jurisdiction , criminal or civil , was granted . The civil court , or court of pleas , was appointed to take cognizance of all debts ...
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... court of record was appointed to be held every Tuesday before the port- reeve , recorder or deputy , and bailiffs , for all debts not exceeding £ 40 . The income of the borough at the period of the inquiry amounted to about £ 170 ...
... court of record was appointed to be held every Tuesday before the port- reeve , recorder or deputy , and bailiffs , for all debts not exceeding £ 40 . The income of the borough at the period of the inquiry amounted to about £ 170 ...
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Página 261 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 143 - To alter the constitution of the committee for the affairs of the estate of the trustees of the Liverpool Docks...
Página 206 - ... and, in the west, two castles well fortified. 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.
Página 346 - ... chiefly on the tops of natural hills, and which can be attributed to none of the various people who have ever dwelt in the adjacent country, except to the ancient Britons, although, indeed, the subsequent conquerors, Romans, Saxons, and Danes, and even the Normans, have, on certain emergencies, made use of them on account of their great original strength ; and although erroneous and hasty conjectures, and even the crude reports of the country, have often called them Roman, Danish, or Saxon, yet...
Página 337 - ... the mayor, jurats, and commonalty of the king's town and parish of Maidstone...
Página 232 - Bridge was 5 inches, and this was thought a very trifling sinking. The total width of the water-way between the arches is 690 feet, at all times of the tide ; which is 66 feet more than the old bridge afforded at high-water mark. The length of the bridge, from the extremities of the abutments, is 928 feet, within the abutments ; 782 feet. The roadway is 53 feet, between the parapets, being 8 feet wider than the old bridge, and 1 1 feet wider than any other bridge on the Thames.
Página 223 - I should vex myself all the day long with the fantastic mixture of every style of architecture and decoration — the absence of all pure taste — the total want of feeling of measure and proportion. Even the great entrance-hall does not answer its object, because the principal staircase is on one side, and an immense space, scarcely lighted, seems to extend before you as you enter, to no purpose whatever.