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A History of the County of Shropshire
… attention to signs of adaptation to changed conditions and to elements of innovation. 23 The geographical position and physical make-up of Shropshire meant that it was affected … depression in different ways from other midland counties and that there was perhaps less need for readjustment and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The period between the dissolution of the monasteries and the middle of the 18th century was an important one for … corn or even a horse to help them earn a living. Richard Wells of Wem accepted both forms of repayment: in December … ii. 204. The only surviving title is that held by Ld. Bath, heir and namesake of Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne (cr. 1641): …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1750-1875 17501875 The second half of the 18th century and the first three quarters of the 19th were a period of … rewarded the Shropshire sheep with its own class, and the Bath and West of England society first listed Shropshires as … and Habberleyhe settled on younger sons. 75 Thomas Wells, another Staffordshire ironmaster, bought Eaton Mascott …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In the last quarter of the 19th century farming at county and national level was affected by a variety of influences, … the government forage depot there was bought from Lord Bath. In 1932 the firm was one of the first to make tinned … sold by private treaty to the sitting tenants was Lord Bath's Minsterley estate. 9 In north Shropshire the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Domesday Book To 1300 DOMESDAY BOOK TO 1300 The two and a half centuries extending from Edward the Confessor's … a period of growth: of population, of food production, and of the area under cultivation. 30 Most modern … in 1086 to 5 or 6 million in 1347. 31 Those responses, and indeed the ability to respond in terms of the available …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… It was probably completed before the issue, between 1151 and 1153 or 1154, 2 of the charter in which King Stephen … been compiled after the foundation of this house in 1096, and probably after c. 1104, the date of the consecration of Hugh, the first abbot, and of the abbey itself. 4 There is no charter evidence to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the shire, pp. 8088. II. Ploughs and teamlandsploughs on demesne and ploughs among the menholders of the men's teams, pp. … III. Classes of peasantry in 1086 francigene, milites and Anglicivillanibordarii and cotariiservi, pp. 9094. IV. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… francigene, Anglici, milites, villani, bordarii, cotarii, and servi. In addition there are recorded a number of homines, and a few burgenses appear as holders of arable land. There … no references to other classes such as the liberi homines and sochemanni of the eastern counties or the radmen of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the line of the three main rivers, the Thames, the Lea, and the Colne. Meadow is recorded on the manors of Edmonton, Enfield, and Tottenham in the Lea valley, at Stepney between the Thames and the Lea, from Ebury to Staines along the banks of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… that in the neighbouring counties of Hertfordshire 10 and Essex 11 the former royal lands may have been entered in … the one manor of Harmondsworth (48), assessed at 30 hides, and a tenement of one hide in Spelthorne Hundred (49), and there is no reason to assume that either of these was …