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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of shaped wood designed to fit across a person's back and shoulders, with a chain hanging from each end onto which a PAIL could be attached and thus carried with less strain. OED earliest date of use: … of most such cloths was done by small farmers in the Peak District as a secondary occupation, their products being sold …
Survey of London
… as Richard FitzNigel or FitzNeale), Bishop of London, and author of the famous Dialogus de Scaccario, was in … The monks of Westminster were the lords of the fee, and a yearly payment had to be made to them of a taper of 2 … monks, in which William was referred to as their dearest and special friend, was obtained before May, 1200, 2 and a …
Survey of London
… York Road CHAPTER 7 - YORK ROAD [See plates 25, 26 and 27.] The first Waterloo Bridge Act contained a clause for … Lambeth. Except for a fringe of cottages along Narrow Wall and for Phelps' soap factory, 91 which stood east of Narrow … Part of this land was sold to the London and South Western Railway in 1848 when the line was extended from Nine Elms. …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… 1568 EASTER TERM, 10 ELIZABETH. * John Howland John Hardy and Elizabeth his wife Messuage and a cottage with lands in Westelveley and Swanland. * … of the late college of S t William within the close of the Metropolitan church of Yorke and a messuage with land in …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… 15834. HILARY TERM, 26 ELIZABETH. * Alvered Birkebye, son and heir apparent of James Birkebye, gent. The same James Birkebye, gent. Messuage and a cottage with lands in the parishes of St. Sampson's and … of the late College of St. Willm, within the close of the Metropolitan Church of York, and 2 messuages in the city and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in 1851 ( Proceed. pp. 95110). … county, for the river Avon would only affect the northern district. While considering the physical features of Somerset … He was at the time travelling on the Somerset and Dorset railway (vide The Field, January 14, 1871). Bustards were …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Zoology Molluscs and Insects ZOOLOGY MOLLUSCS NON-MARINE Favoured in its … a Gloucestershire locality. The principal papers on the district are those by the Rev. Canon A. Merle Norman, D.C.L., … Avonmouth; Bedminster nitidum, Jenyns. Pond, third railway bridge from Clevedon; River Brue at Street fontinale …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the county of the species recorded in the subjoined list, and add a few species to it. Two or three species not yet … lagurus, Glomeris marginata, Iulus sabulosus, I. pilosus and I. teutonicus. Setting aside the last-named, about which … unquestionably Lamyctes fulvicornis, Polydesmus inconstans and Blaniulus fuscus. Yet the scarcity or apparent absence of …