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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… metropolis of the United Kingdom, the seat of government, and the principal port of the empire, forming a city and county of itself, situated on the banks of the river … born about 1737; Arthur Young, Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, born in 1741; William Mitford, author of a …
London Debating Societies
… man whose life has been uniformly consistent with prudence and morality? The fair Sex, from a native softness and generosity of mind, being often led to give credit to … but intelligent Peasants, complaining of the Injury to Agriculture by the Number of new Buildings about every Part …
London Radicalism 1830-1843
… by the men who contend that all the produce of the earth and of manufactures and every thing else belongs to those by whose labour they are produced and to none elseThey as they maintain being productive …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… among 29 sokemen who probably held between 1/2; yardland and 2 yardlands each. By 1086 the Normans had re-formed the … labour, there being only a single servuson Picot's manor and none on Guy de Reimbercourt's. 92Colvilles manor had a … 93and in 1279 there were four, of 180 a., 133 a., 120 a., and 56 a., all using villein services. 94Later in the Middle …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… courts for his manors of Long Stanton, Cheyneys, Walwyns, and Colvilles. The court usually swore in two constables, two aletasters, two haywards, and two field reeves, and was active in enforcing agricultural bylaws. The records …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Longhope LONGHOPE Map 11. Longhope 1870 LONGHOPE is a hilly and wooded parish lying 15 km west of Gloucester on … wood turning and other woodland crafts, and tanning. AGRICULTURE The Middle Ages In 1086 the Longhope estate, … in 1831 42 depended chiefly on trades or crafts and 109 on agriculture. 27 A large proportion of the former relied on …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Longney Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the Longney estate, while remaining in the … leased with the manor-house in 1514 amounted to 198 a., and a large pasture leased to six other tenants was former … 1811 and 1831, while the number of families supported by agriculture fell from 73 to 65, the number supported by trade …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Severn 5 miles south-west of Gloucester, is a secluded and predominantly agricultural parish. Since the 12th century … of the manor nor resident rector; there is no large house, and no railway-line or main road enters the parish. It extended over 1,558 a. excluding foreshore and tidal water, to which the 1½ a. of Lapperditch and Crib …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… participate with the hundred; 89 in 1276 the free tenants and 4 men and the reeve of Longney were said to have withdrawn their suit from the hundred court 30 years earlier, and the prior claimed wreck in Longney. 90 Under the king's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… HUNDRED Longstowe hundred lies west of Cambridge, and extends for almost 12 miles from east to west. It is … is also the county boundary between Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, which in that part is much indented. Croxton and Gamlingay parishes reach deep into Huntingdonshire, …