A History of Private Bill Legislation, Volume 2Butterworths, 1887 |
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... petition , " Rex nihil inde faciet : " but such licences were not unusual . In 1304 , a road leading to Salisbury was placed in charge of the bishop with a view to its more effectual repair . Upon Tolls farmed petition by John Wake , in ...
... petition , " Rex nihil inde faciet : " but such licences were not unusual . In 1304 , a road leading to Salisbury was placed in charge of the bishop with a view to its more effectual repair . Upon Tolls farmed petition by John Wake , in ...
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... petition from inhabitants of Huntingdon and the Isle of Ely , to take evidence on oath in presence of the Bishop of Ely , upon a question whether he was not bound to repair and maintain the causeway ( calcetum ) of Horheth , then broken ...
... petition from inhabitants of Huntingdon and the Isle of Ely , to take evidence on oath in presence of the Bishop of Ely , upon a question whether he was not bound to repair and maintain the causeway ( calcetum ) of Horheth , then broken ...
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... petition from the commonalty , the road passing through a manor of the abbot of Abingdon , along which the King's liege subjects 1 13 Edw . I. 2 Mounted highwaymen were pro- ducts of a later civilization . A statute of 1692 gave a ...
... petition from the commonalty , the road passing through a manor of the abbot of Abingdon , along which the King's liege subjects 1 13 Edw . I. 2 Mounted highwaymen were pro- ducts of a later civilization . A statute of 1692 gave a ...
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... petition in Cockermouth 1304 , from burgesses of Cockermouth , asked the King for a grant of pontage , " ad reparationem trium pontium ejusdem burgi , qui asportati fuerant per cretinum aque ante Natale hoc anno . " A concession for ...
... petition in Cockermouth 1304 , from burgesses of Cockermouth , asked the King for a grant of pontage , " ad reparationem trium pontium ejusdem burgi , qui asportati fuerant per cretinum aque ante Natale hoc anno . " A concession for ...
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... petition from inhabitants of Nottinghamshire in 1314- 1314-15 , as to 15 , a commission was appointed to enquire into their com- plaint that the Sheriff of Nottingham had applied to his own use fines and funds properly applicable to ...
... petition from inhabitants of Nottinghamshire in 1314- 1314-15 , as to 15 , a commission was appointed to enquire into their com- plaint that the Sheriff of Nottingham had applied to his own use fines and funds properly applicable to ...
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Page 566 - ... it cometh to pass upon the loss or perishing of any ship there followeth not the undoing of any man, but the loss lighteth rather easily upon many than heavily upon few, and rather upon them that adventure not than those that do adventure, •whereby all merchants, especially the younger sort, are allured to venture more willingly and more freely...
Page 188 - taxes and tithe commutation rent-charge (if any), and if the landlord " undertook to bear the cost of the repairs and insurance and the other " expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the hereditament in a state to
Page 524 - ... and that as well for the purpose of avoiding the necessity of repeating such provisions in each of the several Acts relating to such undertakings as for ensuring greater uniformity in the provisions themselves...
Page 92 - After the play, we went into the house, and spoke with Knipp, who went abroad with us by coach to the Neat Houses, in the way to Chelsy; and there, in a box in a tree1, we sat and sang, and talked and eat; my wife out of humour, as she always is, when this woman is by.
Page 566 - ... appointed by the Lord Mayor of the city of London, as men by reason of their experience fittest to understand, and speedily to decide those causes...
Page 371 - Majesty the several rates and duties hereinafter mentioned; and do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal...
Page 550 - Money shall not be borrowed except for permanent works, (including under this expression any works of which the cost ought in the opinion of the Local Government Board to be spread over a term of years...
Page 188 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rentcharge (if any), and if the landlord undertook to bear the cost of the repairs, and insurance, and the other expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the premises in a state to command such rent.
Page 17 - They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.