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A History of the County of Stafford
… boys in reading and writing English; possibly the usher or under-master at the grammar school took some pupils for … school was founded by Richard Allsopp (d. 1728), a Burton mercer, who bequeathed £10 a year for the instruction of 30 … school, for which Allsopp's boys' school became the lower or preparatory department. It was given new premises on the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to have been a ceremonial complex of the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. 5 There is, however, no direct evidence … was possibly of Celtic origin, dating from the 1st or early 2nd century. 14 Elsewhere in the Burton area, there … (the other two being Lord Paget and John Wakefield, a mercer), and he was scheming to have his supporters named in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… works. They assigned other such land, in holdings of two or three yardlands, at rent to the occupants. Abbot Walter … c. 765 a. were on the Ramsey manor; Tiptofts had only 6 or 7 customary half yardlands, besides nine cottagers' … one villager, who wished his son to be apprenticed to a mercer, left him a shop with shelves and scales. 21 Besides …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… furniture maker as most of the payments are for the supply or repair of furniture, a large percentage being for tables, … of 6 9s from R. Callowey. [Lloyds Bank archives] Calow (or Callow), John, Southwark, London, manufacturer of japan … 1817 and free 17 October 1827. Other apps taken were John Mercer (1811 and free 1818), William Chesters (1819 and free …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the unexpanded leaves of which form a globular heart or head. Originally, a cabbage was the head thus formed while the plant was called a 'cabbage cole' or 'COLEWORT'. Now the term is often extended to the whole … great interest in England. As early as 1563, a Coventry mercer had some calico in his shop [Inventories (1563)], by …
The Rulers of London 1660-1689
… ( ? Merchant Adventurer, some time resident at Hamburg (or this could be cous)) (6) City property, land Surr (4) ? … stock, 1671 (6) Land Suff, Wilts, Jamaica (2) Kt, 1669 or 1670 Sheriff, 1668-9, LM, 1677 "A person truly loyal" (7) … 179 Nabbs pr, 30 Oct 1660 f John Chapman of Mawling, Kent, mercer, mar Sarah (4) Land I o W (5) Presbyterian (5) (1) …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… dependent upon such slight descriptions as the chronicler or records afford, and with these as a basis one must … to some extent with a part of the modern St Pierre, or Calais-Sud On the 4th of August, 1347, 5 after eleven … chose, and to require them to go to Calais for a month or six weeks, taking with them merchants and others suitable …
Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London
… mainprised under penalty of £20 each not to make any covin or assembly nor to wander about in a suspicious fashion either by night or at any other time, but to comport themselves well and … 19 was attached to answer John Organ, citizen and mercer, in a plea of trespass, wherein the latter complained …
London Possessory Assizes
… plaint, entered upon the two shops and is seised of them, or alternatively she denies the disseisin. William, by the … in view. The assize comes by Thomas de Cantebrigg, mercer, and others. The jurors say that the pl. did not enter … that he entered upon the premises without doing any injury or disseisin to the pl. Assize respited for lack of …
London Possessory Assizes
… de Quynton, kt., and Isabel his wife, Robert Mauncell, mercer, John Coupere, loriner, and William Braunceby, … and now produced in court: viz. that if John, his heirs or executors, should pay to Hugh at Pentecost next following … parson and six parishioners of the church of St. Michael, or, failing them, the king himself, should present, and the …