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Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XXXVIII Precept of James IV concerning trade with free burghs (1490) XXXVIII. Abstract of Precept by King James … decerning all ships, strangers, and others, to go to free burghs and there make their merchandise. Precept dated …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… to Thomas Graves, Alderman, Burgess and Joiner was made free of the Corporation of Cambridge on 17 January 1755. He … to his father for natural love on 24 August 1778 and made free on 29 September 1785. His death aged 53 was reported in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… English style. William Cleave, Esq., in 1665 founded a free school, and endowed it with a farm now let for 50 a … early and later English styles; a gallery, containing 100 free sittings, was erected in 1823. At Yardley-Wood and … Warrenites, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans. The free grammar school was founded by letters-patent of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… (Plate 160) at the intersection, consisting of four free ribs and a boss; this is probably the ceiling that in … on corbels a short distance along the E. wall; this stands free above the roof of the range forming a sort of elongated …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was virtually no woodland. 8 William of Etchingham had free warren in his demesne lands in Yapton in 1316. 9 There … the small site. A manor at BILSHAM was held by Godwine, a free man, in 1066, and by Hugh of earl Roger in 1086; there … a sub-manor containing three hides which was held by three free men in 1066 and by Warin in 1086. 77 At the division of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the other cottage, with 2 a., had come into the hands of a free tenant, who paid 2 s. 6 d. rent. Some cottagers may also … £12 2 s. a year was received 'in rents and works'. 53 Two free tenants, holding 2 yardlands each in 1279 for rents of … of several villein holdings into freeholds: rents from free tenants increased from 4 s. 6 d. in 1279 to 34 s. 6 d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at the honorial court at North Osney. Villeins as well as free tenants were, unusually, expected to contribute to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the lands, which at the same time he erected into a free royalty. On the attainder of the Douglas family in 1455, … to a congregation of 600 persons, and the seats are all free. The members of the Free Church have a place of worship. There are three …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… son Herbert FitzMatthew. 74 In 1239 Herbert was granted free warren in his demesne at Yatesbury, 75 in 12423 he held …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… with the cusps now broken away; the jambs have each two free and one attached shaft all with moulded caps, bands and bases; parts of the free shafts are missing. In the W. wall is a window similar …