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A History of the County of Oxford
… estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization … below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been completely reorganized … 1394. 60 A Wolvercote chapman had dealings with a London merchant in 1452 and received goods from a Salisbury chapman …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Watling Street to Wombridge priory, perhaps on the line of the later Hadley Road. Priorslee probably grew up beside … turn was replaced by a new road to the south-west as part of the Holyhead road improvements. The first part of the new … R. Clinker, Clinker's Reg. of Closed Stations 1830-1977 (Bristol, 1978), 64, 103, 150, 170 n. 2651. W. K. V. Gale and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the … coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By 1847 only 6 a. of wood remained in Wombridge and none in Priorslee. 10 … The company was owned by John Bennett. Products included merchant bar, guide iron, and wire rod 71 and in 1873 the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to be processed to concentrate the content of … in LONDON, had huge stocks; for example one soi-disant Merchant tailor had nearly 2,000 LB, mostly imported …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … 17, B.A. 10 Nov., 1640. Wooddeson, John (Woodsonne) of Bristol, gent. St. John's Coll., matric. 1 March, 1604-5, … B.C.L. 1696, D.C.L. 1704; born Sept., 1671, admitted to Merchant Taylors' school 1683; canon of Winchester 1706, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WOODCHESTER ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stroud, hundred of Longtree, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 cassati of wooded land at Woodchester was made to the bishop of Worcester by King Ethelbald of Mercia. 44 The episcopal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (a)lxv. N.E. (b)lxv. S.E.) Woodford is a parish and suburb of London adjoining Walthamstow on the E. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Mary has been entirely re-built, except the tower, … cartouches of the arms of the Grocers' Company and the Merchant Venturers; two shields of the Tudor royal arms, one …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Woodford WOODFORD The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the … sold it in 1538 to the king, who in turn sold it to the Merchant Tailors of London in 1544. 52 In 1547 the merchant tailors conveyed the rent to John Skutte, one of …
A History of the County of Essex
… Introduction WOODFORD Woodford was an ancient parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree … in 1877). 142 Michael Godfrey (d. 1695), son of a London merchant who lived at the Rookery, George Lane, became deputy …