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A History of the County of Somerset
… of two holding ponds built like the river to provide water for the Royal Ordnance Factory in Puriton parish. 10 The … 6 teams. Recorded demesne livestock comprised 13 riding horses, 11 cattle, 33 pigs, and 151 sheep. The estate was … the causeway north of the village, was used for grazing horses. 16 In 1598 the tenants of Woolavington Throckmorton …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish comprises 1898 a. 1 r. 17 p.; it is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white … is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, … the great Chester and London road, and supplied many post-horses; but since the establishment of railways, this …
The Environs of London
… gave the old market-house (where the cage now is) for the use of the poor 4. Manor. Manor of Woolwich, or … William Hussey, 1714; William Hussey, his son, Solicitor for the City of London, 1776; John Smith, Esq. (son of … school, and endowed it with 33l. per annum, as a salary for the mistress. Thirty children are educated in this …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ground, they spread themselves over the open country, for the sake of pillage; and the garrison, taking advantage … in the cathedral, and made the necessary preparations for defending their city. The assailants attacked it on the … there are fairs on March 31st and Oct. 14th, for horses and cattle, and a statutefair about three weeks after. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… lived in [Fladbury?] afforesayed in good name and fame for manie yeares now [last?] past is now become destitute of … Powell did with a picke hurte two of your petioners carte horses soe that they were not well able to worke in the time … Nicholas Terrett did lye broken downe unto the ground the horses of your said petioner when as the [carter?] followed …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… To the right worshipfull the justices of the [peace?] for the county of Worcester The humble certificate of the parishioners of Claynes for and on the behalfe of John Wilkinson of the said parishe. … hee humbley beseecheth that hee may continue lycensed for victualinge as formerly hee hath done and hee will ever …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the right worshippfull his majesties justices of the peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, and to all … a poore man, about December last had stollen from him two horses by James Shufley and William Willis alias Brookes who had commonly sollen horses out of the said county, and your petitioner following …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… certifie unto your good worships, that the said Maund hath for these many years wholely declined his trade, giving … of the peace at this present seacions here asembled for the cownty aforesaid Humbly sheweth whereas William … of Acton Beachamp in the cownty aforesaid beeing acused for takeing the goodes of Elizabeth Hadley of the parrish …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… to the geld as three car. The land being then sufficient for eight plows or eight car. 1 There afterwards Roger de … conquest, which Vlsi and Archill had, and paid the geld for one car. The land two car. There afterwards Roger the man … third year of king Henry the first, he founded a monastery for canons of the order of St. Austin, in the church of St. …