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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Domesday Book To 1300 DOMESDAY BOOK TO 1300 The two and a half centuries extending from Edward the Confessor's … a period of growth: of population, of food production, and of the area under cultivation. 30 Most modern … Foregate fair all shops, except those selling wine and ale, were to be closed, murage and pavage were not to be …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Wolverhampton to Newport and Chester, and contains by admeasurement 2684 acres, … from a chalky bed, is particularly favourable for brewing beer, which is here made to a great extent, and of a superior … have occasioned Dorsetshire to become noted for its strong ale. The quantity of Grass-land is very great; the pastures, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… numbered 3,571. 1 Dorchester, the site of a Roman town and of the first episcopal see of the West Saxons, was the principal village, and its abbey church is still a notable building. Among the … and purprestureand breaches of the assize of ale. In February 1300 the whole vill of Stadhampton was fined …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the hauberk, which passed from military to civil costume and became an outer garment. From the fourteenth century it … with a secondary unit of measure understood, as a Dozen of BEER, ALE, WINE, (meaning a Dozen POTs or BOTTLEs) or a Dozen of …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… Draft Report. TO THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES. In pursuance of a minute of the Board of the 28th … day of March 1862, I have inquired into the present state and administration of Boone's Charity in the parish of Lee, … of the 22 June 1683, the founders, Christopher Boone and Mary his wife, after conveying the almshouses and chapel …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… they were imported into this country; that is, cleaned and dried in the sun. Because most ginger arrived ready … Drying would be a cheaper alternative to candying, and would preserve the peel until needed. However, a recipe … [Inventories (1602)]. Not found in the OED See also ALE LOOM. Sources: Inventories (early). Drowle [drowe; droll] …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… suit due to the hundred from Swavesey priory's manor, 84 and in the 1330s its customary tenants were attending the … tenurial business. Court rolls survive only between 1621 and 1664. 87 By the 17th century that manor's courts were … the court in the Middle Ages enforced the assize of ale and occasionally of bread, usually naming two aletasters …
A History of the County of Oxford
… within the Bampton frankpledge, a 'law day of itself', 56 and in the 1670s Bampton's steward was holding the residual … annual view in Ducklington at Michaelmas; a constable, and tithingmen for Ducklington, Clay well, and Cokethorpe, … and probably then, as later, the assize of bread and of ale. 68 In the 1540s the view was usually held biannually in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… many generations in moieties between the families of Bruen and Done; the first passed, with Bruen-Stapleford, to Mr. Wilbraham, and the other with the Utkinton estate to Mr. Arden. Duddon … at the former of which two constables, two tythingmen, two ale-tasters. two surveyors of weights and measures, and other …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… (Dors.), but its components were united by geography and proximity to each other rather than by tenure. The hundred would have been more regular and even more compact but for the omission from it of Semley … Hatch, 32 who in 1289 also claimed assize of bread and of ale, infangthief, and gallows in the manor. 33 The liberty …