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A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the earlier 17th century, and the boundary of Ditton's allotment later became that of the parish. 50 Elsewhere the … North crossed the Rea by a bridge that was probably called Broad bridge in the 13th and 14th centuries; 64 other ways by … to follow a fourcourse rotation of fallow, wheat, a green crop such as vetches, and spring corn. 65 Hemp may …
University of London: the Historical Record (1836-1926)
… Polytechnic Institute. Glasstone, Samuel, M.Sc. : King's College and University College Exeter. Hatfield, Henry … Sheppard, George: Private study. Thomas, Terry: St. John's College, Cambridge. Tucker, Stanley Horwood: Private st. … Gilmour, George Van Barneveld: College of Science, Dublin. Green, George Henry: Private study. Harris, Herbert: Imperial …
Survey of London
… III The Documentary Evidence The history of the King's House or Place, later known as Brooke House, a can be … of his work 3 Lysons also failed to identify the King's Place with Brooke House. It is easy to see how the King's … May 1535 and May 1537 he frequently stayed at Newington Green 77 and from there he wrote to Cromwell in May 1537 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 4 miles (S. by W.) from March, on the road to Chatteris; containing, … in the parish of Wybunbury, union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 5 miles (S. E.) from … it is of the Ionic order, 90 feet in length, and 22 feet broad, lighted in the day-time by spacious domes, and at …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… items for ladies apparel; '14 Dolls Damask Pett's at 11s' [Inventories (1697)] and 'Two Dolls and Ten … was described as 'a Musling that is a yard half quarter broad, and the broadest sorts of stripes of any Musling, and … of use in this sense: 1489 Although a LINEN CLOTH called GREEN DORNICK was rated in the 1582 Book of Rates, dornick in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… caused more by political factors such as the Crown's financial demands and Welsh raids than by population … of the manor of Adderley, which was then in the king's hands. 27 In 1316-17 twenty of the villein tenants and … as 'not so much a pyramid in terms of wealth, but rather a broad plateau above which rose a few peaks', 95 and that …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… plague in the 1740s led to the dislocation of Shropshire's livestock trade. Nevertheless the early modern period was … nature of the change. In 1612 the vicar of Montford's glebe lay largely dispersed in open-field strips, but … squatters on Hayton's Bent and twelve on Rock Lane, six on Green Lane and two on Vernolds Common. Fifteen years later …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and 1860s from 'high farming', well suited to the county's mixed husbandry. 23 The great improvement in transport … adjoining the former commons because they could then grow green crops, an important new element in improved livestock … (Fig. 16). About 1800 wheat was normally reaped with broad hooks or saw sickles while barley and oats were mown …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… At the Shropshire and West Midlands Agricultural Society's 1879 show, held at the Quarry in Shrewsbury, the management … Sugar Beet - - - - 3,306 13,234 16,099 16,616 22,776 Other Green Crops 3,272 1,816 909 801 1,401 1,792 4,267 10,628 … tended to be trading societies supplying farmers with a broad range of agricultural goods at a discount. Such was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and a half centuries extending from Edward the Confessor's reign to the last years of Edward I form a period of … county. The numbers of ploughteams in 1086 allow some very broad conclusions to be drawn about how the 500-odd manors in … in the churchyard 31 and at Wellington an area (later the Green) immediately north of the churchyard was probably the …