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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Economic history Trade and industry TRADE AND INDUSTRY Early commercial activity included the brewing and selling of ale, and gravel extraction (below). A degree of industrial … pork butcher, fried fish dealer, coffee room, gas fitter, beer retailer, zinc worker. Some larger premises were also …
A History of the County of Chester
… Economic infrastructure and institutions Craft guilds CRAFT GUILDS Like other … guilds or companies through which urban manufacturing and retailing were regulated in the later Middle Ages and the … at all afterwards, and they last regulated the price of ale in 1762. 80 By then the support of the city authorities …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Edenstow, Thoresby, and Carberton EDENSTOW, THORESBY, and CARBERTON. Of the kings great manor of Maunesfeild, there … in Edenstow, and amends of the assize of bread and ale broken of their tenants in the said town, and likewise of …
The Environs of London
… Edgware EDGWARE. Name and etymology. Norden supposes, that this place has been … in Doomsday-book) is of the age of Henry II. 2 In that, and every subsequent record till the reign of Henry VIII. I … and cuckingstool. In 1558 a man was fined for selling ale at an exorbitant price, viz. a pint and a half for a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Edgware Economic and social history ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY. Traces of Celtic fields have been … 2 innkeepers, 4 tavern keepers, and 4 retailers of beer. Besides other traders to be found in any village of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages and, indeed, up to the beginning of the 19th century the … lord of the manor was holding a view of frankpledge, 51 and a court leet continued to be held with a court baron … recorded only fitfully in the rolls. The election of an ale-conner is mentioned in 1457, 1471, 1478, 1479, and 1543; …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Edinburgh EDINBURGH, a city, the seat of a university, and the metropolis of the kingdom of Scotland, situated in longitude 3 10' 30" (W.), and latitude 55 57' 29" (N.), about a mile (S. by W.) from … privilege of levying one-third of a penny on every pint of ale, and two-pence on every pint of wine consumed in the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Edington EDINGTON TOPOGRAPHY The parish and former chapelry of Edington 23is a long, narrow, … road on the top of the ridge 1.5 km. to the south, and that part of the scattered settlement of Burtle known as … SOCIAL LIFE Six people were in breach of the assize of ale in 1280 and four in 1311; seven were fined in 1364, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… face of the wood," from the ancient forests of Darnaway and Drummine, of which the greater part of the former and the whole of the latter were once within the limits of … this parish for about a mile, and falls into the sea. The Ale, a small rivulet, runs for some miles through a …
Middlesex county records
… Editor's preface EDITOR'S PREFACE. I. Period and Sources of the present Volume.With the exception of the … having served apprenticeship to them, keeping unlicensed ale-houses, keeping bowling-alleys and gambling-houses, … cesspools, selling bread by short weight, selling milk or beer by short measure, swearing profanely, committing, in …