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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ward, E. division of the county of Cumberland, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Carlisle; containing 151 inhabitants. The … adjoining collieries, one of which, formerly called the King's pit of Sheriff Hill, but now the Stormount Main … annexed to that of Ashwellthorpe, and valued in the king's books at 10: the tithes have been commuted for 400, …
A Dictionary of London
… VI. 1547 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 100). No later record. Wrestler's Court South out of London Wall, west of Carpenters' Hall (O. and M 1677-Boyle, 1799). Called "Wrestley's Court "in Strype, 1755 and Boyle. Had houses only on the … of them in 1301 "The Newemeyne" (New Household). The King's Society and The Society of Shipup (Riley Mem. xxj.). …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Writtle 109. WRITTLE. (E.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xliii. S.E. (b)lii. N.W. (c)lii. N.E. (d)li. S.E. … Secular Homestead Moats. c(3). At site called King John's Palace, 700 yards N. of the church, is well … windows and cambered tie-beams with arched braces and one king-post. ConditionGood. Monuments (1324). The following …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … in 1841, 1,380 in 1961, and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… air. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … has a fine enriched ceiling, and this and other apartments are hung with paintings; the library, an elegant …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… south-west of Cockshutt Piece and north-east of Ball's coppice. In the earlier 19th century there was some … district council. In 1650 there were 12 cottagers at Pain's Lane on Watling Street. In 1836 the place was said to have … met monthly on Saturday evenings in the Shaw Birch or the King's Arms public houses, Trench Lane. Sick benefit and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… ½ league broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as the king's wood c. 1130, it was claimed in 1235 to be well stocked … in 1397-8 and 1413-14. 67 The area was still known as King's wood c. 1577. 68 Much of the surviving woodland was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. 74 The vicar's income in 1612 consisted of tithes of wool, lambs, flax, … Edward Pemberton (d. 1680) left a rent charge of £6 13 s. 4 d. for similar purposes; it was discharged for £200 in … one (given c. 1931) formerly the property of Bishop King of Lincoln. 42 The chest may be 14th-century. 43 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's value had risen from £6 13 s. 8 d. T.R.E. to £12 10 s. in 1086. Charlton, which had one of the ploughteams and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's boundary' 74 and the king retained the manor of WROCKWARDINE in 1066. Roger of …