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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts … This place was honoured by a visit from James VI. of Scotland, on his route to take possession of the crown of … and valuable stone-quarries of the township; there are manufactories of paper and earthenware, and about 40 hands …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, … and contains some stone-quarries. There are, a silk and a woollen manufactory, some bleach-works, three tanyards, four … no houses in the neighbourhood; and when the earthenware manufactories of Gresley and Swadlincote were extended to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … important. In the 1550s a Woodstock man who was neither a woollen nor a staple merchant was reported for buying large …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; containing 71 … whose wife was lineally descended from Robert II., King of Scotland. The Ordnance chapel, on the road to Plumstead, a …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the … Isabel Muir, was lineally descended from Robert King of Scotland. Colonel Adam Williamson, their only son, married …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… b SP 75 NE) Wootton parish, 702 hectares in area, lies S. of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is separated from the river for most of its length by Hardingstone parish except at its W. end … de Bidun. The first Walter de Bidun, also Chancellor of Scotland, died in 1178 (Powicke and Fryde 1961, 173). This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it … views of the surrounding country, the sea, and part of Scotland. Upon the Cloffocks, an extra-parochial meadow or …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) To the right worshipfull the justices of the peace at a sessions holden at Worcester the fifth day … your worships will pray James Marshall and four others of Scotland, chapmen. Ref.110 BA1/1/148/57 (1685) To the right …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of meadow, pasture wood two leu. long, three quar. broad. In … routed the Scots at Flodden field, where James the 4th of Scotland was slain, for which great services he had an …