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A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1922. 34 By 1882 the Hadley & Trench Gas Works stood on the south-western edge of Trench Pool, and in 1912 the … above, Lilleshall, Public Services. A. H. S. Waters, Rep. on Water Supplies (S.C.C. 1946), 24. Above, Eyton, intro. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a waggon-load of woollen-rags, which are to be strewed on his hop-grounds in the spring, and dug in as manure. These … and some WELSH WOOL. Although there were plenty of rugs on English beds and some of rug as a TEXTILE in the shops, no … wrought in it, & also other golde & silver in papers & on quills, j pap' of silk buttons ij paire of sisers, & v …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… left to the poor of Woodditton 6 s. 8 d. a year charged on a house in Saxon Street. 88 Walter Pratt senior (perhaps …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… has a commodious landing-place for coal, lime, and gravel; on its banks are some mills, and there are other large mills … the Hall, now a farmhouse. Divine service is performed on Sunday afternoon in a small chapel subordinate to the … and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; and became a parish under the provisions of that act, on the subsequent consecration of its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were successors to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 … with 6 s. 8 d. to be distributed to the poor in bread on Good Friday. 87 The rent charge was confirmed in 1650 … Oxford (d. 1643), 4 s. a year. 91 Bread distributions on St. Thomas's day derived from bequests of £5 each from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… elsewhere, early corporate life in the borough had centred on a religious guild, 45 and that the instruments of 1453 … The site, a house at the park gate with an attached close on the south, had been acquired by the corporation in the … that the corporation had met the cost in the past, 57 but on his death in 1837 his executors were obliged to pay …
A History of the County of Oxford
… College, Oxford, who transferred the loan from the college on the understanding that fellows would supply the mastership … library. 95 The earliest grammar school may have been on the site of no. 10 Oxford Street, where a former … then that the school was moved to a former chantry chapel on the north side of the church, where it remained until the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 36 s. 10 The site of New Woodstock, a well drained plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, … borough comprised 61 � a. 14 Its boundary with the park on the west and south was probably established at its foundation, 15 but it was extended on the north in 1453 when the corporation's meadows ( c. 17 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the profits were taken to include the quitrents set on burgages at the town's foundation and still listed in … of 466 13 s. 4 d. for the fee farm, a calculation based on an annual payment of 5 marks which presumably included 1 … right to acquire lands worth 100 restated. Detailed provisions were made concerning the structure of the council …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 942 inhabitants. This place is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was … of the largest horse-fairs in England is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th … superintendence of commissioners annually chosen under the provisions of an act of parliament passed in the 47th of …