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A History of the County of Essex
… apparently remained comparatively small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was the only large … the 18th century and the early 19th coal from north- east England was transferred to lighters at Wivenhoe for transport …
A History of the County of Essex
… form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served … into a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of … V.C.H. Essex, ix. 237-9; Youngs, Admin. Units of England, i. 157. E.R.O., D/P 277/8/1; ibid. D/DU 27. B.L. MS. …
A History of the County of Essex
… the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with … towns in north Essex and in ports on the east coast of England from Kent to Northumberland. The boys were bound …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wollaston (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of … the livings of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of Beaufort: the tithes have been …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wollaton, Olaveston WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called … four car. small wood, one leuc. long, one qu. broad. In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 100s. … Ann, Anno Domini 1711, raised to the dignity of a Baron of England by the stile and title of Thomas Baron Middleton, of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one diarist found to his cost when mixed in PLASTER [Diaries (White)]. OED earliest date of use: 1748 … examples in the Dictionary Archive both come from southern England. Not found in the OED Found described as SMALL See …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged … 16 Nov., 1648; B.A. from Cambridge, Harvard college, New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… WOODCHESTER (11 miles W. of Cirencester) A silver spoon in the Ashmolean Museum was recovered from West Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery … Smith (1965), 10511. RVB, passim. Agrarian History of England, I, pt. 2 (S. Applebaum), passim. JBAA, VI (1851), …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… ROMAN CATHOLICISM. The revival of Roman Catholicism in the parish dates from the purchase of the manor by William … Passionist fathers to Northfield House, Nailsworth, in 1846, and they moved to Pud hill in 1849. The church, … 1853. Woodchester was the principal house of the order in England for some years and was later used as a novitiate 97 …
A History of the County of Essex
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, … pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had been made in the woodland at an early date. In 1066 there was arable … 408. J. Lucas (trans.), Kalm's account of his visit to England [1748], 1667. Erith, Woodford, 36. G.L.C., DL/C/298. …