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A Dictionary of London
… century. Name derived from owner or builder. Winkworth's Wharf South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 41, on the … maps. Winorh Marichirehe See Mary (St.) Woolnoth. Winston's Court See Vincent's Court. Winter's (Sir William) House See … See Wolsies Gate. Wolhouse See Woolhouse. Wolkaye See Wool Quay. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1536 when the rents of the customary tenants were worth 53 s. 3 d. and those of the free tenants 44 s. 10 d. 88 There were 5 freehold tenants at Winstone c. … amounted to 357 a., Townsend farm had 330 a., and Gaskill's farm 174 a. 9 In the mid 20th century almost all the land …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the Nene. Corporation Seal. From the date of Wulfhere's charter, little is recorded of the history of the place … burthen now approach the town, and load and unload at the quay and granaries. In a recent year, tonnage duties were … the Old Nene at Outwell, and thence to the Ouse at Salter's Lode Sluice, opening a way to Norfolk and Suffolk. An act …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… St. Mary). The fact that the three obtained £1, 15 s., and 10 s. respectively in a division of certain charitable funds in … and the George Inn (No. 35) Market Place; Nos. 3 to 5 Nene Quay; No. 97 Norfolk Street, dated 1701, with a 'Dutch' …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The charter had enjoined the 'ten men' to distribute £3 15 s. a year in charity. 23 This sum was supplemented in the … there were two collectors for the poor, who received £21 0 s. 11 d. and disbursed £21 17 s. 7 d. 25 In 1591 William … workhouse on a 3-acre site between the Horse Fair and the Quay. They ordered 260,000 bricks, and Robert Twells, then …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when the flow of water was improved by cutting Moreton's Leam. Bishop West spent £200 on a new sluice, which was … the Nene for 7 miles downstream from Wisbech to Peter's Point. This would have given a 5-foot fall, but the … £150 in demolishing a bank that was part of Kinderley's improvements (1726). 17 By 1751 it was possible in a dry …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 'WISBECH ANO DOM 1662. 1c. GM'. 66 Several tradesmen's tokens of this period are preserved in the Museum. 67 The … sphere of influence covers the Isle-Cambridge (13.3), King's Lynn (15.6), and Peterborough (13.7), and of the country as … the late E. J. Rudsdale. Incl. tokens of Henry Tunard, baker (¼ d., 1657), Richard Harrison, haberdasher (¼ d., …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… who held the lands that had once been Robert dispensator's. 28 The earliest reference to their tenure of Wistow seems … earls of Pembroke, who remained tenants of the family's Leicestershire estates, including Wistow, until the death … of Robson, paperhangers. In 1827 £417 14 s. was paid to Baker for work in the library. V.C.H. Leics. i. 326. Hist. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by subscriptions, loans, and a subvention from the town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old … the bailiffs and excluded from charitable uses. 4 Holloway's and Townsend's Almshouses Two other almshouses were founded in the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's recovery in the early 19th century, as piecemeal mechanization transformed the town's industrial organization. 14 The Cloth and Blanket Industry …