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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… the Bishop of Winchester, in which were chiefly confined women of bad character frequenting the Stews at Bankside. The …
Survey of London
… in 1898 that St Helena Place was populated by 'rough women wearing sack cloth instead of stuff skirts', and that …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… machinery in an upper room of Lake House. The village women were given the opportunity to learn the various … farmers. Part of the cloth produced was retained by the women and part sold. Difficulties were experienced in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… interest of 1000 is given in marriage-portions to young women, and that of 2000 appropriated to the benefit of five men and as many women. In 1816, Thomas Mease gave to the high steward and … by the Dean of Salisbury, and two poor men and two women, chosen by the prior. The tenements are falling into …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… among a group of about a dozen victuallers, many of them women. Evidence from the late 15th century shows that a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for the clothing and support of 5 poor men and 5 poor women, natives of Wilton over 50 years old, who had resided … for marriage portions, not exceeding 10, to poor young women resident in Wilton. Individual portions never amounted … left 500 to augment Sumption's charity for poor men and women. 19 Further augmentation was made in the will of Sarah …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… provision; one a monastery of clerics, the other of women. From the beginning of their foundation each of them …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and children. Some escaped, at least nine married local women, and several more were buried in the churchyard. 13 … for silk. 46 Silk throwing was said to have employed many women and children 47 and a silk throwster, a silk winder, … weavers to steal yarn for them. 52 During the 1770s poor women were taught to weave at parish expense and in 1776 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the poor; and there are almshouses for six men and women, erected by James Butler, Esq. The parish contains … yielding a rental of 128. An hospital for eight men and women was endowed by Thomas Brotherton in 1510, and Richard … has been augmented to twelve. An almshouse for twelve women, founded by a bequest from Henry Franklyn, in 1575, and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… on large corbels carved as semi-figures of men and women in 13th-century dress, that at the north-west being …