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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… that the fibres had reached; hence phrases like 'upon the bobbins', 'at whitening', or 'upon poles' (that is, hung outside to bleach), 'in the oil', …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 19, Yardley Hastings (13)). Medieval and Later A complete St. Neots ware jug is said to have been found in a pit in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Parish of Woolhope. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. The … in wall and carved with a Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John under a trefoiled and gabled head, 14th-century. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… to have passed through on his way to Weymouth and remarked upon the new Yarlington Lodge. 8 MANORS The 10 hides at … William (d. c. 1790) left a daughter Henrietta, wife of Michael Hicks. They assumed the additional name Beach. 58 In … 1782-97, was also a chaplain to the king and a canon of St. Paul's. 87 Communion was celebrated four times a year in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1965 the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's transferred the advowson to the Charles … 8 Fletcher also gave a 15thcentury font formerly in St. Michael's church, Oxford, 9 and 'many curious pieces of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a single day on successive Mondays following the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) in the order Oxey, West mead, Pixey. The … of the tenants are to any appreciable extent dependent upon the price of corn'. 1 Sheep were still kept in the 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… practice of holding fairs on the village feast (24 August, St. Bartholomew's day), 53 and much earlier he had put an end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … view of frankpledge at Yarnton attended by tenants from St. Valery manors in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, …