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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… that lyes in the county of Worcester (but whether with or without licence wee know not) and that they severally … to suits quarrells fightings breakings of the Kings peace or any disturbance whatsoever butt lives like an honest and … the said Henry Poole was ever concerned in any quarrells or disturbances of the Kings majesties peace till lately …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… respectively secured and owing upon any specialty contract or other account whatsoever and the names and places of abode … the same by any writeing under their hands shall direct or appoint in pursuance of which we the major part of the … July next ensueing the date hereof together with a coppy or coppys of the cause or causes wherewith he stands charged …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… III. mention is made of the letting out of the liberties or franchises of the Abbot of Bury between Coplestone, and the mill of Worlingham, and in Beccles. 4 Coplestone, or Coppleston, is a name still retained by certain lands in … Id. John Naconn 1425 Id. John Pilleston 1428 Id. Simon Atte Grene 1429 Id. William Plomer 1471 Id. Robert …
A History of the County of Sussex
… recorded, 2 and by the mid 17th century the easternmost or east field, the middle field, and the east field next the town or home field lay east of the hamlet, and the west field … holdings of less than 20 a. had common rights for cows or bullocks. 11 There seems never to have been a single …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… in a two-centred head with a moulded label and 17th- or 18th-century stops of Roman cement; the rear-arch is … ( a) oak-leaves and acorns, ( b) bearded king's head, ( c) vine and grapes; S. side ( a and b) foliage, ( c) diademed … storeys, timber-framed and plastered; the roofs are tiled or thatched. Some of the buildings have original …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… 319, p. 561; vol. 375, p. 415; vol. 384, p. 130] Yale (or Yate), Elisha, 57 Little Britain, London, upholder … &c. w th. all sorts of Picture Frames, either Black or Carv'd & Gilt, Likewise Looking Glasses of all Sorts, from … & Gilt, Walnuttree & Gold. Mahogany & Gold. Jappan'd or in plain frames as Piers, Sconces, & Chimneys, w th. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… usually being flint and brick, with roofs of thatch, tile, or slate; one house near the school in North End Road and … Walberton is a scattering of buildings of the 18th century or earlier, some perhaps built on roadside waste. 34 The name … Dir. Suss. (1895 and later edns.). Census, 1831. P. A. L. Vine, Lond.'s Lost Route to Sea (1986), 83. Pigot, Nat. Com. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was still in use into the early-modern period. The yard or VIRGA (the Latin equivalent) was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs … also called a yard, was the equivalent of the rod, perch or pole and consisted of 16½ FOOT. OED earliest date of use: …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… all the larger and fashionable houses were copyhold or freehold; the only house of more than average status built … Between these windows was the entrance, now a window. (5) Vine House, two storeys built in three phases in the second … include architraves and a reeded fireplace surround. (6) Vine Cottage, one storey and attics, class 4a, 17th-century …
Survey of London
… at a reasonable rent, as the late Lord Keeper had it, or otherwise by promis from your Lordship to enjoy it for … in the morning until almost 9 at night without either meat or drink." 196 He was finally sentenced to dismissal from all … were made, and to be built of such stone as the Portico or Water-Gate at the River side is; and this was done on a …