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A History of the County of Oxford
… twice-yearly tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships following the borough's foundation. 4 … town bailiffs accounted to him throughout the Middle Ages for borough income from rent, courts, markets, and fairs, and … 289 Until the advent of the railway the need to haul coal by road probably limited the gasworks' capacity to a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… adherents necessarily lived within the town or parish. For much of the 18th century Dissent, though strong, never … but Methodism remained a dominant force in the town for much of the 20th century. The 19th-century Methodist … that registered for worship in 1826, was rented from a coal dealer for use as a chapel, 137 though as usual with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Exeter College, Oxford: the tithes were commuted for land in 1809. Funeral urns and other Roman antiquities … is wholly distributed among the poor, who also receive in coal the produce of 9 acres allotted at the inclosure. … some woodland and plantations. The substratum contains coal and lead, the former indifferent, and the latter very …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… as formerly; the articles consists chiefly of clothing for the West India markets, swanskins for the Newfoundland fishery, and blankets for the home … with the produce of some other bequests, in money, coal, and clothing. The poor-law union of Wokingham comprises …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Jonathan Feedham, by will proved 1718, … the 1920s, and distributions made in money, food, and coal. 22 M. B. Brown of New York had spent some years in …
A History of the County of Essex
… small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden … involved in more than one business. He was a warehouseman, coal merchant, and farmer, as well as an oysterman. The … makers. A coalyard was recorded in 1722, and there were 2 coal merchants in 1851. 23 In the 18th century and the early …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 … of the river, had become dangerous, and there were demands for a bridge. 2 A temporary bridge, opened by George V in … unionists, pick- eted Wivenhoe port to try to prevent coal being imported from abroad. 91 V.C.H. Essex, ii. 349; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … whereof two-thirds are pasture, and the remainder arable. Coal-mines have been wrought from time immemorial; conveyance … from Ancaster, in the county of Lincoln, in exchange for coal obtained on the estate. The mansion forms one of the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an … Wollaton. This lordship, which is small, abounds in pit-coal; it is owned by Lord Middleton, and is old enclosure.The … with, it is said, came from Ancaster, in exchange for pit-coal. Sir Francis Willoughby, the builder of this mansion, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is described below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been … in 1358 may have been part of the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the … installed the first steam-driven machinery and by 1811 coal was being brought weekly by barge via the Oxford canal …