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Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XCII. Charter by King James VI., confirming all rights and privileges, previously granted to the Burgh and City of Glasgow, and erecting the same into a Royal Burgh. Royston, 8 April …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… commanding the observance of a Decree by King James III. and his Council, decerning all ships, strangers, and others, to go to free burghs and there make their merchandise. Precept dated Edinburgh, 20 …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Y Y Yabbicom, William H., Lower Castle St, Bristol, cm and u (181819). Trading at no. 10 in 1818 and no. 8 in 1819. [D] Yale, Elihu, London, cm, broker and upholder (178499). Addresses given at 119 Newgate St in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It is situated on an acclivity above Bottesford beck, and comprises 733 a. 3 r. 6 p. The common lands were inclosed … 178 inhabitants. It is situated in the vale of the Wisk, and comprises by computation 1120 acres of land, divided … of 1279 acres, and is crossed on the east by the Louth navigation; the surface is flat, and the soil of a clayey …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… This old measure had been the standard before Edward III and was still in use into the early-modern period. The yard … a yard, was the equivalent of the rod, perch or pole and consisted of 16½ FOOT. OED earliest date of use: 1377 for … of measure was the nautical term for a comparatively long and slender WOODEN - SPAR hung at its centre in front of a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish boundary, and a tributary stream known as Rowel brook in the north and as Kingsbridge brook in the south formed the eastern … inconvenience as high as the village. When the Thames Navigation Commission built a pen at King's weir in 1789 and …
The Rulers of London 1660-1689
… with Richard BAGNALL, John CRISPE, George POCHIN and Edward SHERWOOD in a brazil warehouse (5) Tory, 1687, … 1641, 1670 (5) Personalty, Jun 1671, £13,182 EIC, RAC and Gambia C stock (RAC stock £400 of original stock, 1671) Shipping, slave trade interest (6) City and London property …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3379 inhabitants. This township, which includes Upper and Lower Yeadon, and Henshaw, comprises about 1730 acres, chiefly high … pasture; the surface is watered by copious springs, and the substratum abounds with good building-stone. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Vaenor Isav Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 … situated near the turnpike-road from Pembroke to Narberth, and comprises a small extent of land, all inclosed and cultivated. Culm is found in some parts of it, but it is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … comprises 1912 acres, of which 836 are arable, 800 meadow and pasture, 10 woodland, and 177 common, roads, and waste. … for the Ouse have expended large sums in improving the navigation, and steamers now ply between York and Hull at any …