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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1620s Thomas Pirkes and eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To … of Richard Emmes was born in our sayed [town?] [illegible] and her sayed husband being now common servant [illegible] worship and other inhabitants (and having lived in [Fladbury?] …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… here delivered of a bastard sonne who prooveth impotent, and shortly after the said Clarke brought a bond and delivered it to the oversee minister of the said parishe … presently where he called for a pott of ale a pipe of tobacco and a pennyworth of egges to fry with his bacon, and …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) … the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your worships have been pleased at some … att high waters all horsemen were forced to goe to the mills next above which were the free hould and inheritance of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of our poore (to whom we pay 4 shillings per pound) and all manner of provisions soe excessive deer, by means … the poore are reduced soe low in their very smale estates and mean imployments, that they are not able to mainteine … favourably pleased to consider our necessitous condicions and either to annex and joyn us unto Claynes being our parish …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… see the conquerour made it) had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two … venison, and of fish, and of fowl, and of malt, and of his mills, and of all things of which tythes were wont or ought …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of Harold, held Worlingham at the time of the Survey, and Roger Bigot was steward of it for the Conqueror, who … of Gurth had been tenants. It was valued at ten shillings and sixpence, and paid one thousand herrings. There were also in this …
A History of the County of Essex
… the early 12th century. 44 Before 1189 Walter of Windsor and his mother Christine gave the church to the nuns of Wix priory, who appropriated the rectory and ordained a vicarage of which they were patrons. 45 Cardinal Wolsey dissolved the priory in 1525 and granted Wormingford church to his college at Oxford, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable arable farming was recorded from the Middle Ages. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of demesne ploughs increased from 3 to 4, … century, and Wormingford Hall manor had grain and fulling mills in 1480. 9 The watermill recorded in 1743 was probably …
A History of the County of Essex
… manor in the 15th century, handled transfers of holdings and amerced tenants for trespass and nuisances. 26 A three-weekly court baron was held c. … flour, mutton, bacon, cabbage, milk, oatmeal, green tobacco, and beer in 1815 and 1816. Three spin- ning wheels …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the tythings of Burgham, Perry-Hill, West-End, and Wyke, 1424 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6795 a. 3 r. 34 p., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes … best coke in England. In the township are several cotton-mills (some established upwards of forty years), employing …