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4 giorni fa · EAST MALLING is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester, and being a peculiar of the archbishop of Canterbury, is as such within the deanry of Shoreham. The church of East Malling is dedicated to St. James. It is a handsome building, with a square tower at the west end of it. Archbishop Anselm, who lived in the time ...
3 giorni fa · Members of Parliament. THE origin of the House of Commons, at least in its present form, is a point that has been contested with great earnestness by several eminent writers; the first express writ that is found of any knights of counties, by name, summoned to our parliaments, as members, is that of the clause-roll of the 49th of king Henry III. anno 1264, requiring sheriffs to summon two ...
4 giorni fa · Biography of Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration ...
4 giorni fa · He was second son of Sir William Twysden, bart. of East Peckham, by Anne his second wife, daughter of the first countess of Winchelsea, and was created a baronet in 1666. He afterwards seated himself at Bradborne, in the adjoining parish of East Malling; and in his descendants it has continued down to Sir John Papillon Twisden, bart. of Bradborne, the present owner of it.
3 giorni fa · Footnotes. 1.This brook or bourn runs on the south side of Hampstead, and passes near Bellsize to Barrowhill-farm; thence through Marybone-park to Marybone-lane; it crosses Oxford-road near Stratford-place, and Piccadilly under a bridge near Hay-hill, supposed by some to take its name from this Aye-brook; which passing through the park near Buckingham-house, and through Tothill-fields, falls ...
1 giorno fa · MAIDSTONE was part of the antient possessions of the see of Canterbury, and remained so at the time of the conquest; and it is accordingly thus entered in the general survey of Domesday, under the title of the lands of the archbishop. In Meddestan hundred the archbishop himself holds Meddestane. It was taxed at 10 sulings.
5 giorni fa · The poor constantly relieved are about fifteen, casually ten. SHADOXHURST is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne. The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a very small mean building, consisting of one isle and one chancel. At the west end is a wooden building, with a small ...
