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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… placed one on each side of a fireplace to support burning wood or as a rest for the FIRE IRONs. This was also known as … placed one on each side of a fireplace to support burning wood. When the FIRE GRATE became more common, dogs irons were …
Survey of London
… and it has a semicircular arched head and panelled wood sides and soffit. There are four stone steps projecting …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of use in this sense: 1489 Although a LINEN CLOTH called GREEN DORNICK was rated in the 1582 Book of Rates, dornick in … COLOURED, ELL BROAD, ENGLISH making, FRENCH making, GREEN, NARROW, PRINTED, STRIPED Found in units of PIECE, YARD … SINGLE Found rated by the PIECE of 30 YARD See also GREEN DORNICK, TAPESTRY, TIRENTALLES. Sources: Acts, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1313 to inclose and cultivate 60 a. of Haughmond wood and in 1318 Hadnall wood was divided and inclosed. 14 In 1297 the abbot and … at a rent of 3 d. an acre and by 1364 clearance of the wood by the abbey and its tenants was well under way. 23 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the gentry and substantial farmers. Inclosure In mainly wood-pasture areas like Shropshire, where arable farming was … began in the late 15th century with the felling of Divlin wood, followed by Brandwood and Holloway Hills wood a … squatters on Hayton's Bent and twelve on Rock Lane, six on Green Lane and two on Vernolds Common. Fifteen years later …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… adjoining the former commons because they could then grow green crops, an important new element in improved livestock … time Rouse-Boughton also rebuilt others, such as Upper Wood Farm, Hopton Cangeford. 1 PLAN & ELEVATION of a HOUSE … harrows. Originally the ploughs were locally produced from wood, with iron used only for share and coulter. Ploughs of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Sugar Beet - - - - 3,306 13,234 16,099 16,616 22,776 Other Green Crops 3,272 1,816 909 801 1,401 1,792 4,267 10,628 6,351 Total Green Crops 63,485 57,481 48,668 43,558 43,772 38,881 57,515 … of the increased arable grew oats and mixed corn, though green crops and especially kale were increased considerably …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… grazing animals as well as people collecting and cutting wood; of heaths and uplands walked by flocks of sheep several … '4 virgates [of arable land], 4 a. of meadow, 4 a. of wood and 4 s. rent' in Ellesmere, apparently a division of a … in the churchyard 31 and at Wellington an area (later the Green) immediately north of the churchyard was probably the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… third tree and the third pig of the pannage of the nearest wood which belongs to Kingsbury, which is held in common as … 2,000. In each of the two manors at Stanmore (64, 90) the wood supports 800 pigs, Enfield (73) and Edmonton (72) each … Watling Street from the Chilterns as far as London. Where wood which was used for fencing, nemus ad sepes, is recorded, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… held both the ministerium cuneorum and the manor of Lisson Green. 50 Lisson may have become a serjeanty when Otto …