Search
A Survey of London
… Bishopsgate warde, whereof a parte is without the gate and of the suburbes from the barres, by S. Mary Spittle to … and in length, from the Kings streete on the west to the Bishops of Londons field, called Lollesworth on the East. The … of Denmarke, Ambassadour vnto the Queenes Maiestie of England from Fredericke the seconde, the King of Denmarke: an …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… List of maps and plans BISHOPSTROW The small parish of Bishopstrow adjoins the Urban District of Warminster, running the length of its south-eastern …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… times and 2 priests were recorded there in 1086. 85 One of the priests may have served a chapel of ease at one of the other settlements of the large manor of Bisley, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Education EDUCATION. A part of the profits of the ancient endowment of parish lands held by the Bisley … pupils, apparently that in connection with the Church of England chapel at Chalford. 13 From the late 1820s the …
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 …