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A History of the County of Essex
… by its use as one of the main sources of east London's water supply. The West Ham Waterworks Co., founded about … river. 14 The company later took over also St. Thomas's (or Pudding) Mill, on Pudding Mill river, and by 1849 its … Co., had a chain of reservoirs along the Lea on West Ham's north-western boundary. 15 The greatest alteration to the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… bridge, 12 probably between 1242 when the Lydford chaplain's servant on horseback was drowned in the Brue 13 and 1327 … formerly with attached two-room house for the assistant miller, and the mill building with some fittings survive. 24 … resident servants were one each employed by an engineer, a miller, and one farmer. However, some servants lived out and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Polled tree in the 15th and 16th centuries, and as Poulter's corner in 1896. 4 The north part of the parish lay on the … in 1841. 22 The buildings of Salvington include Cutler's Farmhouse, called in 1978 The Old House, a 17th-century … recorded west and north-west of the church. 79 There was a miller at West Tarring in 1772 80 and 1822, 81 and two in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… sister, Emma. 6 Early in 1223 they assigned to Richard's widow Maud dower in Thorney, consisting of 52 acres of … of the lands then held in dower by Mabel widow of Richard's father William de Thorney. 7 In 1242 the 2 knights' fees … the manor was conveyed to William Butler in 1814 by Edward Miller Mundy and Catherine his wife 13 (the widow of Richard …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… monuments in West London Westminster 16. WESTMINSTER. (O.S. 6 in. London, Sheet K.) The city of Westminster comprises … Latin. VII, 33. (2). Strand Lane, E. side, about 80 yards S. of the Strand, plunge-bath of brick with a round N. end, … of woman at top, shield-of-arms below; (17) to Joanna (Miller), wife of Lord Henry Powlet, 1673, tablet with …
Old and New London
… Westminster St. James's Park CHAPTER V. ST. JAMES'S PARK. "A spark That less admires the Palace than the Park." … or thrown up by the silverbreasted swans," as Mr. Thomas Miller quaintly remarks in his "Picturesque Sketches of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… between the rivers Cary, since displaced by the King's Sedgemoor Drain, and Parrett. 6 The parish includes the … away north across Land moor to 4 m. (13 ft.) at King's Sedgemoor Drain, west to 5 m. (16 ft.) beyond Penzoy, and … later. 23 The manor owned a horsemill in 1300 and paid a miller; in 1330 the mill was operated by a horse and five …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… owned both freehold and copyhold land. 6 The freeholder's family, the Harwards, had acquired part of Belbouches manor … and remained copyholders until 1610. The lord of the manor's son was attempting to buy up their estate in that year, 9 … of the cottagers of Lisles manor in 1279 was surnamed the miller, 42 and in 1315 Sir Robert de Lisle's windmill, Lowe …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Picot the sheriff as a 3hide manor, later LISLES. 48 Ely's interest in the sokeland was later reasserted and by the 1150s land in Westwick was possessed by Bishop Niel's chamberlain Ralph as successor or overlord of Anketil … Fin. (Rec. Com.), 31; Pipe R. 1201 (P.R.S. N.S. xiv), 125; Miller, Ely, 180. Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 524. V.C.H. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the tenants. The value of the estate had declined from 100 s. before the Conquest to 30 s. 63 In 1220 there were again six plough-teams 64 and the … late 11th century and the early 14th, for in 1327 the lord's assessment for tax was one-fifth of the total for the whole …