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Henley: Urban Economic History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… had transport occupations, including carters, a sumpter (or packhorse-driver), boatmen, and porters, while others … with (allegedly) around 300 cart-loads often sold in a day. 1 Grain exporting probably became a secondary activity, … though both outside banks opened only on Thursdays (market day). 9 TABLE 4. Occupations of male household heads in the …
Survey of London
… of 'back houses' assessed for rates suggests that one or two little courts were already in existence behind the … the Rev. C. J. Keenes. The term was eighty years from Lady Day 1873 at a peppercorn rent for the first twenty-one … the summer the theatre was closed, and re-opened on Boxing Day, 27 December. The architect was T. H. Wyatt, assisted by …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… the opening speech in the Painted Chamber on the following day (which, unusually, was given by Chief Justice William Thirning rather than the chancellor or the archbishop of Canterbury), the commons came before the … his dreams: on the morning of 10 March, parliament's last day, he says, 'I heard it being urged that all sorts of …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… on Monday 14 January, the commons were told to attend each day at eight o'clock, and to present their speaker to the king on the following day at nine. Arnold Savage duly became speaker on the … At any rate, he apparently absented himself for 'five or six days, until 28 January'. Meanwhile, as the roll …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… which had kept him occupied for the previous five years or so. 3 Spurred on by both his father's incapacity and his … then told to elect their speaker, and on the following day they presented Chaucer, who, despite his declared … that he be burned. The sentence was carried out the same day at Smithfield, in the presence of the prince of Wales. At …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… the king nor his son, the prince of Wales - now more or less in charge of suppressing the rebellion - were able to … would prove as generous as its predecessor. On New Year's Day 1406, further writs were sent out changing the venue to … until 13 October. Due to the number of absentees on that day, the third session was delayed until 18 October, but in …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… of Parliament. On Monday 1 March, which was the first day of parliament, in the Painted Chamber within the royal … pres la chambre depeynte. To act all together, or at least six of the aforesaid prelates and lords, … customary house within the abbey of Westminster, each day for the duration of the parliament at eight o'clock: and …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… in his parliament held at Westminster on the first day of March in the seventh year of the reign of King Henry … all the county of York, that no man of whatever status or condition should assemble or cause to be assembled any … eight or nine thousand fighting men, on the twenty-ninth day of the said month of May, armed and arrayed for the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… out procedures for dealing with any 'riot, assembly, or rout of people) which, most unusually for this time, do … son rather than father. 6 On Monday 2 November, the day before the session was due to meet, Henry IV issued … Beaufort to declare the parliament open on the following day and then prorogue it until the Wednesday, 'as the king …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… returned to England, landing at Ravenspur on the Humber on or about 4 July, and within a further six weeks had succeeded … wish that Henry should succeed him; that on the following day, in Westminster Great Hall, a meeting of the estates … the conveyance of the crown, was sufficient unto the day, so that by the evening of Tuesday 30 September the reign …