The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County: Middlesex |
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... period , continues our shrewd historian , " the Roman Alauna received the honor which it retains at present ; was made the metropolis of the shire , and lent its own appellation to the county . " Soon after this event the county was ...
... period , continues our shrewd historian , " the Roman Alauna received the honor which it retains at present ; was made the metropolis of the shire , and lent its own appellation to the county . " Soon after this event the county was ...
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... period of the Britons , probably had contained only two cantrefs , Linuis and another , now inclosed thirty tythings , thirty manors , and three hundred townships . The divison of Salford , the only one of its three hundreds that has ...
... period of the Britons , probably had contained only two cantrefs , Linuis and another , now inclosed thirty tythings , thirty manors , and three hundred townships . The divison of Salford , the only one of its three hundreds that has ...
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... period till the reign of Henry the Third , the Honour was held by several great personages . And the latter Monarch conferred it on his second son , Edmund Plan- tagenet , surnamed Crouchback , ‡ when it became an Earldom ; not through ...
... period till the reign of Henry the Third , the Honour was held by several great personages . And the latter Monarch conferred it on his second son , Edmund Plan- tagenet , surnamed Crouchback , ‡ when it became an Earldom ; not through ...
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... period , the Clerk of the from France , the Lords - Lieutenants were required by Parliament At the time when England was threatened with an invasion Inhabited . HOUSES . Number of Families . Uninhabited . PERSONS . OCCUPATIONS . Total ...
... period , the Clerk of the from France , the Lords - Lieutenants were required by Parliament At the time when England was threatened with an invasion Inhabited . HOUSES . Number of Families . Uninhabited . PERSONS . OCCUPATIONS . Total ...
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... period he observes , that the " Roman Alauna re◅ ceived the honor which it retains at present , and was made the metropolis of the shire * . " Of its annals during the Saxon Hep- tarchy , we have no records ; but soon after the Norman ...
... period he observes , that the " Roman Alauna re◅ ceived the honor which it retains at present , and was made the metropolis of the shire * . " Of its annals during the Saxon Hep- tarchy , we have no records ; but soon after the Norman ...
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