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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 … the warrant of royal charter to Wallingford, Portsmouth and possibly elsewhere. One illustration of this may be …
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 … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … granting to the citizens of Winchester all the liberties and customs which they had enjoyed during the time of Henry …
Survey of London
… to its present site at the corner of Cleveland Street and Mortimer Street. St. Pancras Female Charity School was … show that nearly all the houses on both the north and south sides of the street were occupied by the year 1770. … Jupp, architect, who designed the entrance hall to the Carpenters' Company, and nephew of Richard Jupp, architect to …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … from the nave vault, contracted for by, probably, the same freemasons, John Hylmer and William Vertue, in June 1506, to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… middle-class houses were built along the Ashby road, and there has also been extensive 20thcentury council and private housing development in the south-eastern part of … cornice along the gables. Since 1933 it has been a freemasons' hall. 1 Smaller houses were also being built by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… were three ploughs on the demesne of Winstone in 1086 and eight servi were employed. 81 The amount under plough at … to one plough-land with 20 a. of wood, 5 a. of meadow, and 2 a. of pasture, 84 and remained as such throughout the … by a carpenter, a maltster, 17 and a blacksmith. 18 Carpenters were recorded in the parish from 1856 to 1910, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when in the settlement of a dispute between Bishop Hotham and Sir Geoffrey de Coleville over their manors of Wisbech and Walsoken, certain houses erected by the latter at his end … Grants of pontage were made to the bishop in 1327, 1328, and 1331. 56 References to bridges are frequent in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 79 A church, in Queen's Road, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Charles Borromeo, was built in 1854. 80 Gardner, Dir. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at … only other tradesmen mentioned in the Middle Ages besides carpenters 4 and smiths 5 were a weaver and a 'ripier' or … in 1724, 7 and the Richardson family of Hole Street were carpenters in the 18th and 19th centuries. 8 A joiner was …