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The Church in London, 1375-1392
… Widmerpool (Wygmorpoule) £2 0s 0d; John Chitterne in Peter's Lane (Peterlane) £10 0s 0d; 1 the Charterhouse £2 0s 0d; … the same John to the hospital of St James £1 2s 0d; the earl of Salisbury to the dean and chapter of St Paul £1 10s …
The Church in London, 1375-1392
… (Novo Eton) £6 8s 0d. 448. From the tenements of: the earl of Stafford to the abbot of Sawtry £6 13s 4d; Avice …
The Church in London, 1375-1392
… Vintry Ward 480. VINTRY WARD. From the tenement which: the earl marshal holds to the [king's] chapel Westminster £13 6s 8d; John Marchal holds to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Great Boughton, Lower division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester; containing, with Eton … Thomas Stanley, an illegitimate son of Henry, fourth earl of Derby, was seated at Eccleston; but this part of the … books at 13. 17., and in the gift of the Trustees of the Earl of Bridgewater: the impropriate tithes have been …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Harborne, Selly, and the north-west of Northfield, in King's Heath, Sheldon, and Yardley Wood. Most of Erdington is … rather than in nucleated villages. Northfield and King's Norton were probably colonized from Bromsgrove. The hamlets … least was hedged and ditched and used for arable. 42 The Earl of March inclosed part of King's Norton wood before …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and workshops makes a minute description of Birmingham's industry difficult. At least for the later part of this … find the valley of the Tame growing in importance. Such a forge is mentioned at Bromford in 1605 13 and another at … however, available commercially. As long ago as 1766, the Earl of Shelburne had advocated the employment of a local …
A History of the County of Warwick
… professional men quite unconnected with the firm's owners, and of the capital supplies required. New sales … firm at least employed 200. 26 One large firm, Elkington's, has commanded the electroplate trade since their patent of … replace 50 hand stitchers, 47 and in 1948 686 of Singer's machines were spread between 55 firms in Birmingham, with …
A History of the County of Warwick
… made possible the metal-using industries on which the town's prosperity was based. There were some fourteen blade mills … in out-of-the-way places. RIVERS Mills on the Tame OLD FORGE, or Hurstford Mill in Sandwell or Forge Lane is outside … the junction of Millhouse Road and Wash Lane. In 1385 the Earl of Warwick granted to Richard Bradewell the site of a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… St. Antoine [in Paris]. It is an immense workshop, a huge forge, a vast shop. One only sees busy people and faces brown … a hundred trades, were paid an average weekly wage of 24 s., a figure which was deemed 'adequate for the necessaries … qui fait partout la base des populations urbaines, ne s'élève guère à Birmingham au-dessus des régimes inférieures …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… detached, sometimes called Kingsholt, which means king's wood. Another possibility is the area in the north-east … from doing so on about 50 a. in Westfield belonging to the earl of Lincoln when he inclosed it c. 1607. Lincoln's … the close had formerly had one side left open until the earl had inclosed it; after a suit in 1612 he had left a gate …