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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Clackclose Hundred and Half West-Derham WEST-DERHAM. We learn from the … this neighbourhood, and called rag-stone, and on that is raised an octangular one of brick, embattled and coped with … thus immaturely cut off, when he was in pursuit of, and ready to be rewarded with the highest military honours. In …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Clackclose Hundred and Half Westbriggs WESTBRIGGS. This little, and now almost depopulated, village adjoins to Wirmegay; in the survey it was wrote Westbruge. Turchetill was lord in the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Clackclose Hundred and Half Wimbotsham WIMBOTSHAM. At the general survey called … this manor, with one in Downham, into which it extended, to this abbey; 2 in the Conqueror's time it consisted of 2 … be one leuca in length, and half a one in breadth, and to pay 16 d. at a 20 s. gelt. The possessions of Hermerus …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Clackclose Hundred and Half Wireham or Wereham WIREHAM, or WEREHAM, In the book of Domesday, called Wigreham, taking its name from a … being deprived at the conquest, King William granted it to Rainold, son of Ivo, one of his Norman adventurers, with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… GREAT ( St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union and hundred of Tendring, N. division of Essex, 14 miles (S. … 7., the vicarial for 250, and a rent-charge of 66 is paid to Travers' Knights of Windsor; the glebe contains 4 acres, … fury of King Hardicanute on account of their refusing to pay the Danegelt, and next in 1637, from a dreadful …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… that of Pathhead, with which it has become incorporated, and of which it forms the more modern portion, being … from one of the quarries, about 14,000 cubic feet are raised annually. At Blair-Adam, is a post-office, a branch of … till the Dissolution, when its revenues amounted to 201 in money, three chalders, eleven bolls, two firlots, three and a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… clam used by PEWTERers as 'Iron Cheeks, with a Rivet Pin to hold them together; between which if a wedge be put, it … Dictionary Archive were a locksmith with 'ffive Hubbins and side Clams' weighing 24 LB and valued at 5s [Inventories … [Diaries (Pepys)], whereas in [Inventories (1695)] a READY MADE boy's COAT of cloth was valued at a mere 9s. Like …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons Until inclosure in 1839 Clanfield's open fields … in wax or cumin. All the customary rents were described in money only, though tenants of the Chastillons' and … drainage improvements. 116 Cattle and pigs were also raised: William Newman of Friars Court was a farmer and bacon …
A History of the County of Oxford
… river Thames, some 6 miles (9.6 km) south-west of Witney and 14 miles (22.4 km) west of Oxford. 1 Its ancient parish, … long subject to floods and sometimes impassable, was raised above the flood plain. 20 The intersecting road from … from a house on the west side of the street. It became a money order and telegraph office in the late 1890s, 34 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Clanfield Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Manor Courts and Officers Before 1248 Richard, earl of Cornwall, as … century its chief function was probably collection of cert money and quitrent: then as in the 13th century, tithingmen … on roadside verges and wastes, and in the 1840s and 1850s raised funds to facilitate emigration. Throughout the 19th …