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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Epidemics, sanitation EPIDEMICS, SANITATION The origin of the weekly collection for the poor, mentioned above, seems to have been the outbreak of plague. In December 1584 a balance of 11 s. 6 d. was … area around. The Water Company has now been transformed by statute into the Wisbech and District Water Board. 53 Sewage …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at 20 s. The Walpol fee, now held by another Henry, son of Osbert de Walpol, had also been reduced to 1/12 though the rent of the tenant's 120 acres had in 1251 been increased to 12 s. … In 13023 Osbert de Longchamp was associated with John son of Osbert de Denever in holding of a fee in Wisbech of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Guild of the holy trinity GUILD OF THE HOLY TRINITY The Guild of the Holy Trinity was much the most important of these …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene about 12 miles from its present outfall, 94 miles north of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a … annual value in the last three streets was £28 10 s.; labourers' cottages in Horse Fair and the adjoining streets …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… occurs c. 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the monastery of Ely. 54 In 1086 Wisbech was held by the abbot, and rated … dykes or digging new ones cost 2 d. or 3 d. a perch, the labourers' wages being 4 d. a day. A 'drainage tax' of ¼ d. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … later became Thakeham union. 48 In 1834 the four or five labourers unemployed in winter were supported by parish work, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, encompassing the three rural … with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 the manor was valued at just … along with large numbers of agricultural and general labourers. Agricultural trades such as malting remained …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a dormitory town, a recurrent theme in the second half of the 20th century. 1 The arrival in 1950 of the engineering firm Smiths' of England, attracting both local employees and large numbers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the range of occupations typical of a small, prosperous market and … the poor too great, with an 'abundance' of poor labourers needing employment. 13 By the early 18th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and stall-rents, seem not always to have mirrored those of the town generally: during the 13th and 16th centuries, both periods of apparent growth and prosperity, market and fair income … an ox-roast, but lapsed apparently in the mid 1850s. A Statute fair on the Thursday before 10 October, recorded from …