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A History of the County of Hampshire
… In certain particulars it was moulded by royal licence and enactment, others clearly derive from remote antiquity. … the convicted citizen suffered brutal mutilation 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In … walls, and the rents of assize derived from Gar Street and Tanner Street especially reached a considerable sum. Amongst …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … Chequer Inn, to the injury of John Collet. The alderman of Tanner Street presented Walter Hore for selling ale below the … John Blake for having broken stalls (stallagium) in Tanner Street, and Simon Pikestaff for selling a flagon of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… lies across the valley of the South Winterborne, and slopes up onto the S. Dorset Ridgeway to a height of … Winterborne Came, now only represented by Came House, and Cripton, on the site of the present Came Home Farm. Each … parish which included the modern parish of Herringston and from the 17th century until the 19th century both were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … Nasmith 'distinguished himself by his edition of Bishop Tanner's Notitia Monastica and other works' (Gardner, Dir. … Par. Accts. Cal. Pat. 1548-9, 326. C 66/1046, no. 57. T. Tanner, Notitia Mon. (1744), 56. H.O. 129/7/193. Kelly, Dir. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… predominantly agricultural, with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 … to farm it from the manor house until the 17th century, and agricultural buildings there remained in use by local … as cattle and corn on a Somerset farm, while the wealthy tanner Thomas Taylor (d. 1583) had poultry and pigs in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the 20th century … White Hart Inn had a 'malting room' in the 1650s; 173 the tanner and wool dealer Thomas Taylor (d. 1583) sold malt, 174 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: medieval trade and industry ECONOMIC HISTORY Medieval Trade and Industry During the earlier 13th century the recently … trades persisted. 41 Some tradesmen had wide horizons, a tanner's widow in 1412 owning property in London. 42 New …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's … of a railway, which added significantly to transport costs and, by hindering coal-supply, delayed the adoption of steam …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the … W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. … curacy; net income, 94; patron and impropriator, R. Tanner, Esq., whose tithes have been commuted for 423. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … f. 44v.; Fox, Arch. Camb. Region, 125; R. H. Vincent, A Tanner Will Do: Life in the E. Cambs. Village of Wood Ditton … HO 107/1762, ff. 93-128. C.R.O. 470/O 137. Vincent, A Tanner Will Do, passim. J. Chapman, Map of Newmarket Heath …