William Burton, The Description of Leicestershire (1622)
Date
1622
Author
Book title
The Description of Leicester Shire Containing Matters of Antiquitye, historye, Armorye, and Genealogy
Publication place
London
Printer
[William Jaggard]
Publisher
John White
Text type
printed book
Genre
Proper and place name indexes
Subject area
- place name
- proper name
Summary
Alphabetically-ordered paragraphs or small chapters, occasionally with etymological information
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: ORton, anciently called Ouerton vnder Arden, or vpon the hill, hauing the originall name vpon the scituation, being eleuated vpon a rising hill; and the addition, for that it is neere to that great, spacious, and large Forrest of Arden in Warwickshire, long agoe disafforested. This Mannor was giuen by Robert Earle Ferrers vnto the Abbey of Mirauall, vpon his first foundation thereof, as it appeareth by the Register of that House, about the raigne of King Stephen. Much Lands hee gaue thereto, in this, and the County of Warwicke, which were after confirmed by King H 2. R. 1. and King E.1. The Church of Ouerton was appropriate to this Abbey, of the Order of the Cistercians, by Pope Innocent the third, in these words ... (p. 215)
sample: ORton, anciently called Ouerton vnder Arden, or vpon the hill, hauing the originall name vpon the scituation, being eleuated vpon a rising hill; and the addition, for that it is neere to that great, spacious, and large Forrest of Arden in Warwickshire, long agoe disafforested. This Mannor was giuen by Robert Earle Ferrers vnto the Abbey of Mirauall, vpon his first foundation thereof, as it appeareth by the Register of that House, about the raigne of King Stephen. Much Lands hee gaue thereto, in this, and the County of Warwicke, which were after confirmed by King H 2. R. 1. and King E.1. The Church of Ouerton was appropriate to this Abbey, of the Order of the Cistercians, by Pope Innocent the third, in these words ... (p. 215)
Alston
XI, p. 44
STC
4179
