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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… of Worstede stained with divers beasts, dorsers and bankers ornamented with angels and knights, quysshyns marked … of the testator, and put their claim upon certain rents, as appears at the Husting for Pleas of Land held on Monday … daughter, Agnes Clay de Enefeld, and others. Directions as to tapers to burn on the day of his funeral and his …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… hamlet of New Wimpole (Monument (15)) hardly qualifies as such. Even in 1638 settlement was scattered, by W. … of either side wall are in freestone and clunch ashlar, as is the N. chapel. The roofs are slated. The N. chapel, … depth to get sufficient fall. It was constructed by the 'Bankers of Wisbech' at a cost of 300. A head of water was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ft.)). 90 The route through the town was described c. 1700 as 'a steep precipice, all rocks', 91 and part of the hill … to Bruton in 1831, and North Street was turnpiked in 1818 as part of the road to Shepton Montague. 94 The roads were … was run entirely by the Messiter family, who acted as both bankers and attorneys, but in 1844 it merged with Stuckey's …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… hands of the gild, it is not easy to form any clear idea as to the actual early constitution of the borough. The light … suburb of Winchester used to pay 12 s. 11 d. to the king as of his manor of Basingstoke. 11 The Survey of Winchester … to gather from these facts any material information as to the borough and burgesses, not even the actual numbers …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… 2 Adam Tyson gave the town of Winkeburns to the knights hospitallers of St. John of Hierusalem, to whom Henry Hosatus … and Egrom in this county which king John confirmed, as it seems Roger Moubray had done, 3 to which family Tysuns … to the hospital of St. John's of Hierusalem in England, as parcel of the late preceptory of Newland in the county of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… National Telephone Company. 23 A weekly newspaper known as the Lynn and Wisbech Packet was started in 1800, but the … and Oddfellows in 1837-8, the Foresters in 1841. 32 As far back as 1654 some of the burgesses deposited their books for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… constables and other officers are appointed, are held as occasion requires. The living is a vicarage, valued in the … A preceptory of Knights Templars existed here so early as 1164, which afterwards came into the hands of the Hospitallers. Withcall (St. Martin) WITHCALL ( St. Martin), a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 1390s the land was usually leased, though tenants such as the Brice family continued to farm it from the manor house … Ifield (d. 1587) left hops and fruit from his orchard as well as cattle and corn on a Somerset farm, while the wealthy …
A History of the County of Oxford
… new fulling mill was built on the Woodford site, possibly, as later, on the north bank of the mill stream. All three … mill, 19 which seems to have been treated thereafter as a copyhold, distinct from the leasehold corn mills until … 125 a year for the mills, which were still described as fulling and grist mills in 1814. 33 Before 1818 Tasker had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… per cent engaged in predominantly agricultural crafts such as smithying or coopering, and 7 per cent described merely as 'labourers' in either agriculture or industry. Lawyers, … glovers): PRO, HO 107/1731; below. A. M. Taylor, Gilletts, Bankers at Banbury and Oxford (1964), 1589. Above, intro. …