Search
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… I think) under suspicious circumstances. It is of a farmer. The family were aroused in the middle of the night by …
A History of the County of Northampton
… in the hands of John Foxley, 66 who described himself as a farmer and brickmaker of Wicken Hurst in his will of 1769. 67 … turn died in 1797, when he described himself merely as a farmer, 69 and this may have marked the end of brickmaking on …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wicken manor demesne had apparently been occupied by one farmer, 82 by the 1660s much of its land, then c. 400 a., was … Spinney Abbey in 1837, was by the 1860s Wicken's leading farmer, working 400 a. in 1861 and 800 a. by 1881. 2 Miss … initially along the edges of Wicken's fens, in 1867. One farmer alone in 1871 hired 14 men to dig and 11 women, out of …
Alumni Oxonienses
… and of Stifford, Essex (3s. George, of West Ham), a farmer of the customs; died 17 Feb., 1624-5. Wilmer, William …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the demesne was leased annually by New College to a single farmer, it seems to have comprised 1 hide: the stock handed … unusual. 72 By the 16th century the tenants other than the farmer of the manor appear to have held little more than …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Middle Ages. 99 In the earlier 19th century the tenant farmer at Wilcote Grange, George Brown, was repeatedly fined … in number, came to Wilcote and forced a promise from the farmer there, presumably George Brown, to bring produce to …