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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… years, during which time the building of the custom house, corn exchange, and cattle market severely taxed the resources …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and implement shops; and the cattle market and the former corn exchange are in the immediate vicinity. A third market, … town, though not handsome' and re marked the export of corn. 44 In 1837 the Commissioners on the Boundaries of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at which the customary tenants were obliged to grind their corn, and a newly constructed windmill. South-west, from the … often reached £7 or more. More surprising is the export of corn, which, especially in the early part of this period, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech was one of the largest if not actually the largest corn market in the country. In 1844-5 250,000 quarters were … Wisbech ranked second only to Wakefield among the English corn markets. 75 There are now weekly markets for cattle on … which the arches were originally open, was intended for a corn exchange. It was, however, little used for this purpose, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and other vessels of 3 to 12 tons. They were used for the corn and coal trade by 7 owners employing 12 watermen. 5 In … 1909. The exports in the early 19th century were mainly corn and rape-seed. Coal was imported and, from 1824, timber. … In the period of high farming Wisbech was the biggest corn-shipping port in the country. A high level of 283,094 …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Pearsone of Witherslacke, yeoman, for 56 all the tithe corn, grain and hay growing or to grow hereafter on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bishop of Worcester. The tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1813; the glebe altogether comprises about 1100 … and vicarial tithes have been commuted for 78. 13.; the corn tithes belong to the perpetual curacy of Lango, and have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or keeping accounts. Two houses on the site of No. 45 Corn Street, also owned by the town in 1613, were similarly … and the clothier Andrew Holloway (d. 1688) six houses on Corn Street, while John Walter and his sister Elizabeth West … gifts were used by the town to buy additional houses on Corn Street and at Church Green, all of them (though not the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… left hops and fruit from his orchard as well as cattle and corn on a Somerset farm, while the wealthy tanner Thomas … with goods (including his own loom) worth 31, left hay, corn, pigs, and 62 sheep in 1621, while a small clothier in … seem to have left crops or livestock, and the small Corn Street plots on which weavers' cottages were built in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bishop invested in several new or expanded mills both for corn-milling and for fulling; an unspecified new mill at … 6 the same rent which by mid century was owed for two corn mills and a fulling mill at Woodford. 7 Many … two men for the bishop's lifetime again included only two corn mills at Woodford. 11 After the Black Death the two life …