Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the History and Antiquities of Gloucestershire, Volume 4

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William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Company, Limited, 1890 - Gloucestershire (England)

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Contents

A Tour within the Borough of Stroud
86
The Morley Inscriptions Bristol
92
The Forest of Dean
100
Randolph and Isham Families of Virginia
127
Lechlade Church
140
1698
164
Poem written on leaving Badminton 1836
168
Three Bequests of Archbishop Juxon
170
Miss Ann Wickss Bequests
176
Will of Richard Rutter of Alderton 1545
182
Monumental Inscriptions
187
Maisemore Register of Marriages 15571590
193
Robert of Gloucester the English Chronicler
199
The Effigy of Robert of Normandy
206
Gloucestershire and the Spanish Armada
212
A Specimen of the Gloucestershire Dialect
219
1655
225
The Preservation of Church Registers
237
The late Thomas William Cattell
246
Selections from the Calendars of State Papers Domestic
253
William Lord Berkeley and Thomas Viscount Lisle
260
1674
267
The Wealth and Splendour of Edward Duke of Buckingham
273
Monumental Inscriptions
279
18561861
296
The Retinue of Lord Berkeley in the Fifteenth Century
304
William Phelps of Tewkesbury 1592
316
Inscribed Pillar in Gloucester
324
Compulsory Churchgoing
331
Monumental Inscriptions
352
Canalizing through Gloucestershire
358
Inscriptions in the New Cemetery near Cheltenham continued
365
Gills Elegy on Mistress Penelope Noel
373
Extracts from Sapperton Churchwardens Accounts 17301787
382
Punishment for Childstealing in Gloucester 18
389
Family of Mace of Newent
395
1777
401
Bentham Vicarage in Gloucestershire
407
Lines on BourtonontheWater
417
Extracts from the MS Calendars of Close Rolls Hen III
425
John Geree M A Minister of Tewkesbury 16211645
431
An interesting Letter of Bishop Frampton Dec 24 1689
439
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441
George Fettiplace of Coln St Aldwyns
447
Monumental Inscriptions
461
The Castle Ditch Bristol
470
Monumental Inscriptions
477
Deerhurst Saxon Church
495
Maisemore Register of Baptisms 16001663 concluded
524
Monumental Inscriptions from other Counties
534
The Steep Holm in 1625
538
Richard the Thirds Permission to wear his Livery
539
The State of Gloucestershire circa 1536
540
Deerhurst Saxon Church
542
Monumental Inscriptions etc
543
King Lucius and Gloucester
548
The late Thomas Gambier Parry D L of Highnam Court
549
The old Post Offices Bristol
551
External Church Work in the Diocese during 1889
552
The Effigy of King Edward II in Gloucester Cathedral
553
Destruction of Hasleden or Hazelton Tithe Barn by Fire
555
Thomas Dover M B
556
The Preservation of the Fairford Windows
557
Monumental Inscriptions
558
The Cowley or Colley Family
563
Upton St Leonards Church and Bells
566
Alexander Popes Description of Bristol 1739
567
Cirencester and the Four Ways
570
Cider and Perry Brandy
571
Complaint of the Conduct of the Lady Anne Berkeley
572
The Blood of Hales
575
Bishop Cheneys Desire to Resign 1563
576
Monumental Inscriptions 577 11
577
Monumental Inscriptions
579
A strange Superstition
580
The Gloucestershire Society in London
581
The Rev Robert Cox Clifton M A
582
Bishop Halls Grant of Bibles 1905 The Lists of the Mayors of Bristol 1907 Willington Family 1908 The Surname Sterridge or Stirridge 1909 The Pat...
583
Monumental Inscriptions
584
An unpopular Tax on Cider 1763
585
Further Notes on Rockhampton Parish
586
The Death of a veteran Journalist of Cheltenham
596
Lines on the Death of Luke Singleton Esq 1917 The Fry Collection of Bibles
597
The Jerningham Family of Painswick
599
A Gloucestershire Scandal in the Fifteenth Century 600
600
Sir John Francis Davis Bart K C B F R S 603 888
603
Monumental Inscriptions
604
Lines written after a Visit to Bristol Cathedral
612
Farm Rents in the last Century
613
Monumental Inscriptions
622
Curiosities of the Church
640
The Trial and Punishment of Kyd Wake 1796
651
Memorial of the Authoress of John Halifax Gentleman
661
Tracking a Church Robbery by Magic
667
296
673
St Mary Redcliffe Church
85

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