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Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… Great Wardrobe. King's Warrant Book XXXIV. p. 357. John Idle, Esq., Chief Baron of the Exchequer Court, Scotland. 500 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… who could support what outsiders thought 'an easy, idle life' from the resources of the fenland by fishing, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… worked it as a rollingmill. After they left the mill stood idle for some years. It may subsequently have been worked by …
A History of the County of Sussex
… to work, many being let out to farmers, while others were idle. 30 Parish work was still being provided in 1827-8, 31 …
A History of the County of Essex
… (Hist. Second World War, U.K. Civil Series), 26970. E. D. Idle, War over W. Ham, 37. Ibid. 21; W. Ham Municipal Year … Second World War, U.K. Civil Series), 388, 414; E. D. Idle, War over W. Ham 49 f.; R. M. Titmuss, Problems of …
The Environs of London
… too much repose brings on the spleen, Or the gay city's idle pleasures cloy; Swist as my changing wish; I change the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… manor, valued at only 100 s. 'because they sometimes stand idle for want of water'; and in 1663 part of the rent of a water corn-mill was remitted because it had stood idle for a month and 20 days. In 1492 one of the mills had …
Old and New London
… the custody of their eyes, or ears, or by indulging in idle conversation." Although most of the buildings … going through the church and cloisters; and whereas many idle boys come into the cloisters daily, and there play at …
Old and New London
… costly and inconvenient to the citizens, by attracting idle, abandoned, and "masterless" people. In 1608 (James I.) … Hatton describes Bridewell "as a house of correction for idle, vagrant, loose, and disorderly persons, and 'night … This is also the place of confinement for disobedient and idle apprentices. They are kept separate, in airy cells, and …