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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… end-ways, by Wreaths, in the same Manner as the Axis of a Wheel-Barrow is'. OED earliest date of use: 1733 Found … (late). Writing box [wrytinge box; writing desks and box; wrighting box] A small BOX for containing WRITING … for making black writing-ink, by mixing with water, beer, ale, or wine' [Patents (1688)], as was the 'finest and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood WROCKWARDINE WOOD Wrockwardine Wood, north-east of Oakengates town centre, was originally a detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. to … chapel. About 1650 nine people were presented for selling ale in Wrockwardine Wood. 42 In the mid 18th century up to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made between 1616 and 1657 totalling £60 were used to buy a field called Tiddicross, of which the rent was distributed annually. Edward Pemberton … an additional 10 s. from the sacrament money, provided bread given with the flour. Usually c. 80 people, widows …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… court, and c. 1285 John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a … and 18th centuries courts for Wrockwardine dealt with the assize of bread and of ale, agricultural matters, and the transfer of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of Devon; containing 103 inhabitants. Wyke WYKE, a tything, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Wymersley hundred THE HUNDRED OF WYMERSLEY containing the parishes of Blisworth; … geld-roll of c. 1074 Wymersley figures as a hundred and a half; 1 but in the Domesday Survey the western portion … Northants. i, 296. Ibid. 305, 337, 345, 347. Ibid. 375. Assize R. 632, m. 61 d. Ibid. Place-Names of Northants. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… recorded in 1086, when it lay divided between the rapes of William de Warenne and William de Braose, taking its name … 14th century the hundred court punished a breach of the assize of bread with the pillory; the baker, a tenant of the bishop of …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XXV Charter of Bishop of Glasgow granting various privileges to the … William, by divine mercy Bishop of Glasgow, with consent and assent of our chapter, to you the Rector of the … and without licence from any one. Item, That the assise of bread and ale and the appraising of all things which belong …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XXVI Indenture between the Provost and the Friars Preachers (1454) XXVI. Indenture between John Stewart, 'the first Provest that were in the Citie of Glasgu' on the one part, and the Prior and Convent of the … that sayis messe sex penyis and a galown of the best sale ale of the town the samyn day to the conventis collaciown. …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XXXVII Charter of James IV confirming the liberties of the Bishop (1490) … XXXVII. Charter by King James IV. confirming the liberties and privileges granted to the Bishop of Glasgow. Edinburgh, 4 … goods and merchandise, to wit, wool, skins, hides, cloth, bread, fish, and other things, as well not named as named, …