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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (S. S. W.) from Castle-Cary; containing 133 inhabitants, and comprising 606 acres. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 8. 15. 10., and in the gift of the Rev. J. Goldesbrough: the tithes have been commuted for 169.14., and the glebe comprises 22 acres. The church is a small and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Cary, since displaced by the King's Sedgemoor Drain, and Parrett. 6 The parish includes the village, the hamlets of Bussex and Liney to the north and north-east, and settlements at … until the 20th century as a pleasure fair. 2 TRADE AND INDUSTRY A furnace or forge was recorded in 1308 and in 1516 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… prior to the time of Henry III., by Ralph Martel, and at the Dissolution had a revenue of 24. The prior, in … secretary, was frequently here. It was purchased and occupied about a century ago by Browne Willis, the … and reaping-hooks 5 and the manufacture of woollen-cloth is carried on to a moderate extent. The living is a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Wheel iron This term is not found in the dictionaries and only appears once in the Dictionary Archive in a list of … that could be exported. It appears to have been a simple and well-established TOOL, the export of which would be unlikely to affect British industry [Acts (1786)]. It was probably a saddler's TOOL with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WHEATACRE ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Loddon and Clavering, hundred of Clavering, E. division of Norfolk, … It is bounded on the northeast by the river Waveney, and comprises by measurement 1147 acres, of which 420 are arable, 653 meadow and pasture, 56 woodland, and 18 waste. The living is a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… will a sum, represented in 1968 by £197 stock, for widows and the aged poor; R. H. Carter (d. 1868) gave by will £200 for poor not receiving relief; and by will proved 1877 Daniel Crump gave £100 for bread for … distributed in 1968 in cash to 14 recipients under Elton's and Brewer's charities and to 22 under Carter's and Crump's. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to 30 s. 63 In 1220 there were again six plough-teams 64 and the proportion of the land held in demesne may have … remained roughly constant between the late 11th century and the early 14th, for in 1327 the lord's assessment for tax … century: in 1821 more families were supported by trade and industry than by agriculture, and only slightly fewer in 1811 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Wheatenhurst had its own view of frankpledge by 1479, 56 and apparently by 1424. 57 The tenants of the manor … 59 No record of the court leet is known to survive, and none of a court baron except for two copies of court roll of William Bayly's manor, of 1644 and 1649. 60 Bayly's successor, John Eckly, was said to hold …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Wheathampstead with Harpenden Churches and charities CHURCHES The church of ST. HELEN, 196 … consists of a chancel of three bays, with a north vestry and a staircase to the rood-loft on the north-west, a central tower, north and south transepts, a nave and aisles of three bays, with a …
A History of the County of Hertford
… now divided into the separate parishes of Wheathampstead and Harpenden, is situated at the north-west of the county on … in shape, being about six miles across from east to west, and about three from north to south. The parish before the … there were brick kilns on Nomansland Common, 7 and the industry still continues in the parish. Pickford Mill, in …