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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one diarist found to his cost when mixed in PLASTER [Diaries (White)]. OED earliest date of use: 1748 … or PHYSICAL HERB, particularly a member of the CABBAGE family. It was not used much after the seventeenth century, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged … B.A. 19 March, 1508-9; probably a member of the Yorkshire family. Wortley, Richard (or Wortheley) B.A. 19 June, 1516, … domestic chaplain to bishop Andrews, and also to the royal family, rector of Fonthill Bishop 1620, and of East Knoyle, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Woodborough. Udeburgh WOODBOROUGH (Udeburgh.) In Udeburg the book of Doomsday shows that St. Mary of … three bov. The land one car. There Aldene (ancestor of the family of Crumwell named in Lamley) after the conquest had … Raph de Limesies, as in Epreston will be noted, where the family of Samson the most ancient tenants thereof chiefly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woodchester (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of … king's books at 25. 9. 2.; patron, the Rector, in whose family the advowson has been for some centuries: the tithes … farmhouse, was built in 1582 by a member of the Dalling family, which during a long period held the estate. The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the estate held by Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, in 1086 are not recorded. No teams were employed on the demesne of Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and … from Samuel. 5 Obadiah received George III and the royal family at the mill in 1788. 6 After his death in 1792 it …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the Nailsworth valley two miles south of Stroud town. In 1972 the parish, a triangular unit comprising 1,206 a., … late 18th century. 2 The north-western boundary is formed in part by the Stroud-Dursley road, turnpiked as far as Buckholt wood in Frocester in 1780. 3 The western slopes of the Nailsworth …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 cassati of wooded land … was succeeded by his son William, who returned from the family estates in Australia. William died in 1906 and his son … in 1972. 84 The manorial rights remained in the Leigh family, members of which continued to reside in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… even when held by the same incumbent as Woodditton; 12 in 1747 it became formally a distinct ecclesiastical parish. … Wigmores (later Widemouth) wood, named from the Wigmore family of Kirtling, and Church Hall or Hall wood. In the mid … felled and converted to pasture by its lessees, the Grange family of Swaffham Bulbeck, in the early 1610s, 49 though had …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… it. Droard son of Cade gave it to Thetford priory (Norf.) in the early 12th century. 12 Thetford created a vicarage, of which it held the advowson until its dissolution in 1540. Presentations were made by the Crown in 1342-3 and 1370, and (under royal grant) by Mary (née de …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and closes and woods in the south-east. The … a. bought by a Newmarket man in 1305, 14 and the Derisley family's 50 a. 15 Otherwise the largest recorded holdings … who also owned freehold and copyhold land, like the Pratt family, tenants at Camois Hall c. 1600, 21 and the Collins, …