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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Elizabeth Seys, by will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the … The income was not fully used and a surplus of £342 3 s. 8 d. existed in 1828. 13 In 1834 a school was built by … the Woodchester Endowed school, up to £10 for apprenticing or for an exhibition for further education, £20 for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 … to have been succeeded there by the mercer John Barnes (or Baron), ten times mayor in the early 16th century. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with … representative of the inhabitants and lacked the funds or the will to meet the growing demands of local government. … begun in 1705. Thereafter many townsmen depended directly or indirectly on the palace and estate. Tourism became …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … 94 Most of the rest of the parish lies on boulder clay or sand and gravel, while some terrace gravel is associated … prehistoric site with Bronze Age ring ditches and Iron Age or Romano-British ditches and enclosures. 3 Another possible …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as the king's wood c. 1130, it was claimed in 1235 to be well stocked … 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had begun, and it may … lumps of ironstone weighing up to ½ cwt. set in blue clay or shale known as 'crows' or 'hatter's blocks'. 79 Sir George …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … which eventually prevailed and the three daughters or their heirs were declared coheirs. The manor was then held … Jordan Gwihaine. 43 It probably passed to Sir Adam Gwyene or Gyan (fl. 1238-42) 44 who died before 1272 leaving his son …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of … a mile and a half in circuit, by a narrow neck of land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of two small …