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A History of the County of Hertford
… CHURCH The church of OUR LADY has a chancel 39 ft. long by 20 ft. wide, a north chapel as long as the chancel … capitals and bases, the date being c. 1230, and coeval or nearly so with the south arcade of the nave. The upper … pillars may have been clustered like the east respond or octagonal like that at the west, and fragments of such …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Colne. The whole parish lies on the chalk formation, more or less deeply covered with gravel, sand, and brick earth. It … Watford as being a 'genteel markate town, . . . very long, having but one street,' and this is a sufficient … dates from the latter part of the sixteenth century, or early in the seventeenth. Watford : The Old Vicarage It is …
A History of the County of Hertford
… There is, however, still extant the will of Ethelgiva or Ethelgifu (9426), in which she leaves the 'land of … called 'Alepeny,' said to have been unjustly levied for a long time past, and from all other tolls and works on bridges … present earl of Essex. Capell, Earl of Essex. Gules a lion or between three crosslets fitchy or. Watford in 1605 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Peverel had three car. in demesne, pasture wood five qu. long, two broad. Another Mannor Siuvart had, which paid for … Chawoth, and Watnow Cauntcliff, the latter of which, all or most of it, became the possession of Bevall Priory, by the … for his heirs, if any of them should attempt to go against or hinder his gift. The Monks demised it to Robert, son of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… when the walls of the chancel and aisles were re-faced or re-built. The North Vestry and South Porch and the windows … and three locks, middle lock having curved scutcheon, 15th or 16th-century. Glass: In N. aislein tracery of N.W. window, … side of The Leys, about 1 miles S.E. of the church, is a long rectangular range of two storeys. It was built probably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Oxford; containing 826 inhabitants. Weald, North, or North-Weald-Basset (St. Andrew) WEALD, NORTH, or North-Weald-Basset ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union … in that of Monk-Wearmouth-Shore. The upper town has a long and spacious street, extending from east to west, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… ...' [Ramsay (1750)]. ASHES made from plants that grow in or adjacent to salt water will pick up more sodium than … made with a Taper fork, and a Cross bar of Iron, some six or eight Inches above, and then hath a strong Socket, into … However, [Inventories (1590)] with well hemp at 4½d LB and long hemp at 8d, suggests that the quality of well hemp was …
A Dictionary of London
… Webbes, Fraternity of Gift to the Fraternity by John Fich or Fyssh, 1356 (Ct. H.W. I. 689). Webbe = Weaver. Weeden's … built a house at Wool Wharf in Tower Ward for the ttronage or weighing of wool, and the King gave permission for the … House. It continued to be used for religious worship for a long period, being known as the King's Weigh House Chapel, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place, denominated by the Saxons Weadesbury or Wodensbury, and now commonly called Wedgebury, was … a. 3 r. 11 p. Coal and ironstone are plentiful, and three or four mines are at present in operation: locks and keys, … WEETSLEET, or Weetsted, a township, in the parish of Long Benton, union of Tynemouth, E. division of Castle ward, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… post-holes and two small pits dated to the late Bronze or early Iron Age. Some post-holes were arranged in square or rectangular groups and were interpreted as possible … were turned up by the plough in this area, and a 'long trench' stretching a considerable distance into Boughton …