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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (b)lxi. N.E. (c)lxi. S.E.) Woodham Ferrers is a parish and village 6 m. S.W. of Maldon. The church, Bicknacre Priory … her son, Sir Samuel Sandys, 1619, coloured alabaster and black marble wall-monument with kneeling figure of lady at … Paintings: In naveabove chancel-arch, large Doom in black and red colour, Christ the Judge in middle seated on a …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… 1596 Entry Mrs W of Hogginton appeared, brought by Vaughan and Chandler, royal judges. She said that pepper was cold, violets and strawberries cold and dry. She used Diaprun. & Hamech. as … in medicine'. The Lord T had employed her in the country for his daughter (Lady Montague)'s dislocated joint. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London Clays which give rise to a well-wooded area, at … areas at the lower (N.W.) ends of most closes yield black soil, flint rubble, Heathstone fragments and 12th to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for 482, and the glebe comprises 18 acres. The church is principally … son of Edward I., was born here; as were also Edward the Black Prince, and Thomas of Woodstock, sons of Edward III. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… demesne farm in 1086. 70 The farm had 114 a. in 1339 71 and 118 a. in 1434. 72 On the Morley manor demesne farm there … remained the largest farms in the parish between the 16th and 18th centuries. About 1639 Woodmancote Place farm had 149 … Farm on the Brighton road in the 1930s. 64 There were a country club and a caravan park in the south-east in 1984. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals … wardens of Woodstock chapel granted the recently acquired Black Hall to John Bytham for a quitrent of 2 s. 4 d. 5 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … was Crow Lane and by the 17th usually Blackhall Lane, from Black Hall, later the Star inn, at its corner. Its later name … on the west side c. 1600. 77 In the early 17th century the country bakers set out their wares around the High Cross in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is … the serjeant and crier were paid for collecting it; 58 the country bakers paid separately for their standings beneath … sqq.; H. A. Jones, 'Where Tommy Atkins' Gloves are made', Black and White, 3 Dec. 1898. Oxf. Jnl. 2, 16 Apr. 1842. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … at the Old Woodstock end of the causeway was accepted as a country bridge and in 1839, after a dispute with the … There is no direct evidence of plague in Woodstock but the Black Death ravaged villages in the town's hinterland and may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… public library from 1895 until it was taken over by the country council in 1947, regularly issued licences for … the borough's arms, crest, and supporters, and the legend, black letter, SIGILLU M COMMUNE COM MUNITATIS VILLE D OMINI … may have been carried by aldermen. There are also short staffs carried by the four tithingmen. Administration of …