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A History of the County of Oxford
… or dry seasons. The rent of such land varies only from 25 s. to 30 s. an acre, 27 s. being a fair average. 2. The stonebrash is excellent land …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to lie still. 62 Land that was never accorded a whole year's bare fallow was to be found in parts of the common fields … one, part in a three-field course with a whole year's bare fallow stirred in summer, part given a still fallow … capitalist farmers increased their profits. While a farmer's rent rose from time to time, often steeply, he enjoyed long …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… writing of the area around Salisbury in the early 1790's, records much open field mixed with recent inclosure. 4 … dairying, and in sheep, a tendency that bears out Davis's complaints. 20 Some increase in turnip, potato, and … 1851, Knook 1871). General agricultural depression (Bishop's Cannings 1851), scarcity of agricultural employment …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… 1276, Present May 13, 1282] 1 William de Dureme (Durham) S. 12689. Died 1283; Will enrolled November 22, 1283 [H.R. 14 (129)] 1283 Auketin de Betevile, Draper S. 12823. [Present Dec. 16, 1283, Acting March 5, 1284, … (Rep. 72, fo. 100 b); fine of 420. May 14, 1667 Humphrey Beane, Cordwainer [Sworn May 21] 92 [Nominated: Aldermen Sir …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… October 16, 1284] 1 Ralph de Alegate C. 1285 Martin Box (S. 12834.) [Present June 26, 1285, Acting June 16, 1287, … 16, 1301 [H.R. 3] (78)] C. 1301 Richard de Gloucester (S. 12945.) [Acting Feb. 4, 1303, Acting March 18, 1323] 3 … [Nominated: Aldermen Sir J. Wollaston and Avery, Oliver "Beane" (? Neave) ( Merchant Taylor)] Sworn and discharged May …
A History of the County of Essex
… in its resources, the manor doubled in value from 30 s. to 60 s. between 1066 and 1086. On the 40 a. which became part of … meadows lay along tributary streams. By 1392 Aldham Hall's demesne meadow was also on the Colne, detached from the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… 3 hearths 19 and 20 in the 1780s. 20 In 1845 the parish's four farmhouses and 15 cottages, one with a smithy … (d. by 1293), to Sir Simon (d. c. 1304), 8 and Sir Simon's son John (d. 1340). 9 In 1332 two thirds of Alford was … younger son Simon. 11 In 1393 the reversion on Ismania's death was settled on Simon's elder brother John and his …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Povington belonging to the abbot of Bec was valued at 100 s. unstocked, and at double that amount with the stock. The … the flock, together with 1 mark from the sale of beans, 15 s. from the sale of oats, and 20 s. 9 d. of the Easter rent. 93 Notwithstanding the many …
A History of the County of Stafford
… granted to the priory by his son Robert (II). Robert (I)'s brother Eugenulph and others further contributed to the … Earl of Derby. 21 For the first century of the priory's existence the appointment and deposition of the prior was … system the chances were strongly in favour of the prior's being a Frenchman. It is also probable that at first the …
A History of the County of Essex
… temporalities were valued in the Taxation of 1291 at 46 16 s. 5 d. yearly, viz. 26 8 s. 10 d. in West Mersea, 19 5 s. 5 d. in Fingringhoe, 12 s. 1 d. in Colchester, and 10 s. …