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Survey of London
… one far thing. The action for ejectment proved the last straw for Farlur, who promptly undertook a Chancery suit to …
Survey of London Monograph
… the alteration, to have been composed of clay and straw, a common composition for internal partitions in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… other houses, being a barn and a cowhouse, thatched with straw' (PRO, C133/2; NRO, T(B) 2). Nothing remains of this …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 50 In September 1727, when 140 villagers crowded into a straw-filled barn to see a travelling puppet show, the candle …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… due in 1650 for the use of the Holm common meadow. 'Hall straw', the finest sheaves of sedge cut in the fen, … was distinguished by the mid 16th century from the Straw or Sedge fen, 17 also called c. 1570-1610 the Playn … century 42 to the early 17th, 43 but in the 1570s selling straw was tacitly allowed once men's stints of it had been …
The Estate and Household Accounts of William Worsley, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, 1479-1497
… and barns of the manor over 12 days at 2s. per day in straw, le drawyng of works of roofing, and cash wages of two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… sand, gravel, and clay. Many females are engaged in making straw-plat, which is sold at Shefford market on Fridays, for …