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A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 Hugh d'Avranches, earl of Chester, held the large manor of Bisley, extended at 8 hides. It evidently included the whole of Bisley and Stroud with the exception of Througham, which …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most used colour, whether it was produced in the form of a DYESTUFF or as a PIGMENT. As a pigment, there were no … gave good results with minimal processing. In the form of BLACKING it was used, for example, to polish and to colour … ingenious Industry of these Times hath taught the Dyers of England the Art of fixing the Colours made of Logwood alias …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 12th century, apparently jointly established by the lords of two Black Bourton manors. From the 13th century it was an … seem to have been conscientious, though there were periods of relative neglect particularly in the 16th and 18th … centuries, reversed in the 19th by the dynamic attentions of the long-serving vicar James Lupton. Some of the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… bla. ging'r; bla ging'r; bl gingar] The unscraped rhizome of the GINGER plant, Zingiber officinale. It was also known … to make them marketable [Simmonds (1906)]. Valuations of black ginger varied considerably, presumably reflecting … the sale of [his pencils in most Principal Market Towns in England' [NEWSPAPERS MY1794SLJ027]. A manufacturer hinted at …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to Africa, although that would be an obvious explanation of the term. It was valued between 6d and 13d the YARD. It does not appear in the any of the dictionaries or in Montgomery (1984). Found in units … because they were 'almost the commonest wild fruit in England ... spoken of proverbially as the type of what is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Michael) BLACKAUTON ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Kingsbridge, hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and Coleridge, and S. divisions of … state by the Duke of Norfolk, with a numerous retinue of bishops, knights, and gentlemen, who conducted him to a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Blackburn hundred Mitton THE HUNDRED OF BLACKBURN ( CONTINUATION) MITTON (PART OF) - AIGHTON, BAILEY AND CHAIGLEY Acton, Dom. Bk.; Aghton, … St. John, 196 and Robert de Manneby, prior of the order in England, gave to Adam son of Richard de Winkley all the land …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Blackford BLACKFORD Blackford in 1839 The ancient parish of Blackford is a detached part of Whitley hundred but borders both Charlton Horethorne and … In 1946 it became the trunk road for the south-west of England and was improved on new alignments in the 1970s. 7 A …
Old and New London
… on the Thames' BankThe Black ParliamentThe Trial of Katherine of ArragonShakespeare a Blackfriars Manager The Blackfriars … south of Ludgate Hill. Yet so conservative is even Time in England, that a recent correspondent of Notes and Queries …
Survey of London
… BLACKFRIARS ROAD In 1756 the Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the City of London obtained authority by Act of Parliament 243 to … Hill had been admitted to deacon's orders in the Church of England as a young man and he never entirely severed his …