• "Packington's Pound" is an English broadside ballad that dates back, roughly, to the last quarter of the 16th century. It is most recognized by its tune...
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  • lutenist and composer of the Renaissance period. He is best known for "Packington's Pound" and a variation of "Greensleeves" called "Divisions on Greensleeves"...
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    A true narrative of the horrid hellish popish-plot To the tune of Packington's Pound, the first part. Retrieved 26 December 2019. "Ballad Archive Search"...
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    last two lines) Begin, says Matt, Aye aye, says Nat We'll lead up Packington's Pound No, no, says Nolly, and so says Dolly We'll first have Sellenger's...
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  • True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot. To the tune of Packington's Pound. The first part". British Museum. "Johannes van den Aveele". lambiek...
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  • Song)" "The Football Match" "The Whitsun Song" "Come Lasses and Lads/Packington's Pound" "Northhill May Song" "The Cutty Wren" "Six Jolly Miners" "Medley...
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  • 1878. Web. Link to an audio recording of the ballad to the tune of "Packington's Pound," at the English Broadside Ballad Archive of UC Santa Barbara: [1]...
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  • is most often set to the popular tune, "From Hunger and Cold, or Packington's Pound." The ballad is most recognized by its opening lines, "Come buy my...
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  • of Malmesbury Greywell Hill House, Hampshire Heron Court Earl of Morley Pound House, Devon Saltram House Earl Mountbatten of Burma Broadlands, near Romsey...
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    Glasgow to the City of Carlisle." Church Building Act 1818 or the Million Pound Act 58 Geo. 3. c. 45 30 May 1818 An Act for building and promoting the building...
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    5-pound shot with an eight-pound powder charge The sacar or saker was a gun of 1,400 pounds with a 3.5-inch bore firing a 4-pound shot with a 4-pound powder...
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    Twenty fower hundred threescore and seaventeene thousand and five hundred Pounds to be raised leavyed and paid in the space of Three Yeares. (Repealed by...
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  • Fisher's father, had his family originating in Packington, England, and being related to the Fishers of Packington manor, but they actually lived nearby in...
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    A4048, Tredegar A465, Brynmawr Originally ran from Ebbw Vale to Waun-y-Pound; now a spur of the A4046. A4048 A467, Crosskeys A465, Tredegar A4049 A4048...
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  • helping others anyway. The marriage of George and Maria Packington is in difficulties. Mr. Packington has started to see a young typist named Nancy. When...
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    lock-up Kelsall lock-up Monkton Combe lock-up Packington lock-up Pensford lock-up Watchman's hut/lock-up & pound Petersham, London, erected in 1787 Snaith...
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    Staffordshire and that formerly of Wychnor Hall, Staffordshire (and Packington Hall). Milford Hall passed in the female line to the Haszard family, and...
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    Gift of John Guest. Sir John Packington's Estate Act 1663 15 Cha. 2. c. 18 3 June 1663 An Act to enable Sir John Packington and his Trustees to sell, or...
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    milliner, shoemaker, stay maker, etc. I saw a picture of him at Sir Herbert Packington's in Worcestershire, in a gown, stays, tucker, long ruffles, and cap.....
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    pepper, 440,000 pounds of clove, 314,000 pounds of nutmeg, 121,600 pounds of mace, and about 500,000 pounds of cinnamon; 18,000 pounds of ebony; 8,690...
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    published by Ed. J Burrow and Co, London, circa 1986. Page 29 Multi-million pound leisure centre set to open months ahead of schedule Leicestershire Live...
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    also for repairing the Roads from Kipping's Cross aforesaid to Lamberhurst Pound and Pullen's Hill in the said County, and to Flimwell Vent in the County...
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    Ann. c. 2) 6 Ann. c. 8 10 Ann. c. 24 10 Ann. c. 10 6 Ann. c. 1 St Giles's Pound, at the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. Kilburn Bridge...
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    and sisters another, and the third, which amounteth not to two hundred pounds per annum, must suffice for the maintenance of myself and thirteen children...
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    under Wren at Oxford University. The school recently had a multimillion-pound restoration and now has a museum and computer suites as well as its own...
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  • Gossops Green, Ifield, Langley Green, Maidenbower, Northgate, Pound Hill North, Pound Hill South and Worth, Southgate, Three Bridges, Tilgate, West Green...
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    Prohibition of Traffic) Order (SI 2011/35) The A12 Trunk Road (Junction 32A to Pound Lane, Capel St Mary, Suffolk (Temporary Restriction and Prohibition of Traffic)...
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    the case was eventually closed, and Brettingham was left several hundred pounds out of pocket—several tens of thousands, in present-day terms—and with a...
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    Meriden Archery Club, founded in 1936, meet within the grounds of the Packington Estate and practice target archery. The Forest of Arden Bowmen practice...
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