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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… and Glyn Ceiriog. To the former there is a branch from the Ellesmere canal, and the latter are within five miles of the … manner. Means of conveyance are provided, likewise, by the Ellesmere line of navigation. The chief exports are, lean … is joined by a small stream from the hundred of Chirk. The Ellesmere canal, which forms a communication between the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The church contains the remains of Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere, Viscount Brackley, lord keeper of the great seal …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… post mortem during the summer and autumn of 1349; at Ellesmere 6 a. of meadow were halved in value to 6 s.; at … in the court of Ruyton. 21 In the neighbouring lordship of Ellesmere Roger le Strange was found in 1319 to have made … a Welsh tenant who died intestate in the lordship of Ellesmere in 1345 had 6 bu. of wheat, 6 bu. of oats, and an …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In Myddle Harmer Moss and Myddle Pools and in Ellesmere Tetchill Moor were among the marshy lands brought … estate (including Blakemere) 58 and secondly, in 1600, the Ellesmere estate (including Colemere, Hampton, and Myddle) … coheirs of the 5th earl of Derby. 59 He was created Baron Ellesmere in 1603, and his son's Northamptonshire …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… properties, in the 16th century, and the Egertons' Ellesmere estate had been a creation of the late 16th and … from 1855 kinsmen were employed as resident agents for the Ellesmere estate by the 2nd and 3rd Earls Brownlow: Capt. H. … the Egertons, which in Shropshire included the 20,000-a. Ellesmere estate worth 17,500 a year in 1802. It was that …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a number of large cheese fairs were held periodically at Ellesmere, Market Drayton, Shrewsbury, Wem, and Whitchurch. … that portion of the northern plain from Market Drayton to Ellesmere as having dairying of any importance. 87 Even in … quoted rates from the stations at Newport (145 miles) and Ellesmere (182 miles). Nevertheless the county was at the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… land], 4 a. of meadow, 4 a. of wood and 4 s. rent' in Ellesmere, apparently a division of a hide of land granted to … cleared from woodland was mostly land of poor quality. At Ellesmere 68 s. 4 d. was paid in 1250 for the farm of 'new' … valued at 2 s. or 3 s. An extreme case was the manor of Ellesmere in 1280, where the demesne comprised 324 a. arable …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… DUDLESTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Ellesmere, hundred of Pimhill, N. division of Salop, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from Ellesmere; containing 1030 inhabitants. The living is a …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… broker (1834). [D] Edgcombe, George, Scotland St, Ellesmere, Salop, cm (1822). [D] Edgcome, William, High St, … London, bedstead maker (1837). [D] Edwards, John, High St, Ellesmere, Salop, cm (1840). [D] Edwards, John Holland, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… these names rector of Chilton Egg, Berks, 1540, vicar of Ellesmere, Salop, 1547. See Foster's Index Eccl. [ 20] … of Chicheley, i. 281; & D.N.B. Egerton, Thomas, Baron Ellesmere chancellor of the university 1610-1616 (natural son … of the rolls 1594-1603, lord keeper 1596, created Baron Ellesmere 19 July, 1603, and lord chancellor on 24th, created …