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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Thomasyne his wife. To Walter his brother forty shillings and all his raiment. To his "vyse" 2 Jane Artur a certain sum … The residue of his goods, together with his lands and tenements, he leaves to his wedded wife Thomasyne. Dated … journeymen, apprentices, and others. To his cousin Thomas Lee, vintner, he leaves his chain of gold, weighing eight …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Markets, fairs, agriculture and mills MARKETS AND FAIRS The existence of a market in Wilton probably dates … and other market towns forbidding merchants under pain of forfeiture to sell merchandise in Salisbury on Wilton …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Modern town government and poor relief MODERN TOWN GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES In great contrast to the early period of … the following Christmas to attend the mayor in church on pain of expulsion from the company; these gowns were to be …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, … foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served by ancient roads, was predestined for the haunt of … company were to open their shops or work on Sundays under pain of forfeiting 3 s. 4 d., or to carry or recarry or cause …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … of the town or going a shoting without a gown or cloak on pain of forfeiting 3 s. 4 d. for every conviction on the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … William, the castle was no doubt raised by his orders, 3 and from the first it has been the special stronghold of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 … Threequarters of a mile to the S. of Whatcombe lay La Lee, now Lower Whatcombe; both settlements have now … cottage with brick walls and thatched roofs. (9) La Lee Farm (83270110), house, m. N. of (1), is two-storied with …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, with the church and village on the firm silt land at the north-east end, just … of Lewes to pay the convent an annual pension of 20, on pain of 5. This was confirmed by the Bishop and Convent of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride … manor house), the Upwell Baptist chapel (1844), James Lee's Almshouses (1819), and the modern Secondary and Beaupr … 93 were divided amongst 26 proprietors, of whom James Lee (14 acres) was the only one to receive a holding of any …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper … eastern boundary of the parish is also a county boundary, and was in 1934 adjusted to conform with the modern course of …