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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 'Balsam cures all Manner of Strains and Bruises' both in man and dog [Newspapers (1743)] and patents like the one in …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… described by a foreign visitor who recounted how a dead man was 'dressed in a long flannel shirt edged with lace, ... …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… by the end of the Middle Ages. At Allfield, in Condover, a man who was inclosing part of the open fields c. 1430 … 20 wethers were bought for it in 1428-9 and in 1436-7 a man was paid 2 s. to look after the lambs which were fed on … 14 The accumulation of large holdings in the hands of one man was easier in vills or townships where there were few …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… ploughteams that year 'and keeping 'em at work'; another man received 2 s. a day for 3 days' carrying with his team. … grown as a cash crop, and improvement of the ordinary man's diet resulted from extension of the acreage under hard … the lordship of Oswestry, noted that in the Traian 'every man spoiled the game and that hares, pheasants, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the county paper and claimed that his drill enabled a man, a boy, and one or two horses to sow 8 a. a day. 68 As … claim that their hourly rate of progress was equal to one man's daily output with a scythe, 73 the age of the … for compiling the herd book fell to a Shropshire man, T. C. Eyton of Eyton Hall, 98 demonstrates the links …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and some as much as 55 cwt., he found that it took one man a whole winter to apply the necessary amount of burnt … on food, while such items as clothing were paid for by the man's harvest earnings and, when available, potato and beet … Institute's 36a. smallholding at Baschurch, managed by one man, which initially carried 22 Ayrshire milkers and 8 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… size and composition of the household on any holding. A man with only a wife to support or with several working … its granges. 34 Also active in woodland clearance were the knights Templar, who had a preceptory at Lydley, between the … (probably c. 400 a.) was also removed. 38 In 1209 'the knights and men who live in Brewood' paid 100 marks for it to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in Coleham). In both cases the previous holder had been a 'man of Wigot', and, although each had held his land freely … modo in Coleham ubi non fuit, was held of Earl Roger by 3 knights ( milites) and 1 Englishman ( anglicus) 2 h 1 v 2 … since in a variety of circumstances lands granted to knights might revert to the lord and be reunited with the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… be milites probati. Milites, who were all probably trained knights, are entered on nine Middlesex estates. At … (36) reference to 25 houses belonging to the abbot's knights and other men provides one of the clearest examples of household knights to be found in Domesday. In 'Ticheham' (58) three of …