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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Yanworth YANWORTH (8 miles N.E. of Cirencester) Disjointed traces of a terrace-way in … said to have been scattered over the area between the two presumed buildings noted above and on arable ground … Gallienus 253268 Salonina (wife of Gallienus) Claudius II (or Gothicus) 268270 Victorinus 268270 Tetricus 270273 Carus …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Between 1882 and 1891 it was enlarged by the addition of two detached parts of Walberton in the north (20 a.) and five … 3 Undertenants of Yapton manor were William of Etchingham (fl. 1295-1316), 4 his relative William le Moyne (fl. 1326), 5 … A manor at BILSHAM was held by Godwine, a free man, in 1066, and by Hugh of earl Roger in 1086; there was also a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was still in use into the early-modern period. The yard or VIRGA (the Latin equivalent) was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, … 'Flying Shuttle' by John Kay [Patents (1733)], it required more than one weaver to operate a broad loom, so that … as the 'Machine for glazing ... linens and cottons up to two yards wide' [Patents (1788)] must also have facilitated …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… show very indistinctly what appear to be the S. halves of two concentric enclosures about 110 m. and 40 m. in diam. A … been found ( BNFAS, 6 (1971), 20, Yardley Hastings (18)). More Roman pottery has been discovered 200 m. to the S.E. … In the S. part of the parish, within the existing woodland or in areas formerly wooded or used as common grazing, are a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the boundary here may indicate a field shared between the two parishes. 88 In the late 18th century there were several … as at Yarlington. 9 'Gerlintune' was held by Alnod in 1066 and by Robert, count of Mortain, in 1086. 10 The fee … 43 It probably passed to Sir Adam Gwyene or Gyan (fl. 1238-42) 44 who died before 1272 leaving his son Nigel 45 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1544 and 1547, 49 and in 1565 the advowson was sold to two London speculators, Richard Bernard and Robert Taylor. 50 … College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, … of the living, a fate that escaped his equally absent but more eminent successors, John Venn, master of Balliol College …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 and 1304 there were said to be 160 a. of … 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of … averaging c. 15 in the 17th and 18th centuries, were far more important. Robert Minn of Frize farm kept a bull and 46 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … fairly flat, rising gently to 61 m. at the village and more steeply to over 91 m. in the north-west beyond Spring … village to join the Oxford-Woodstock road, and in the east two converging lanes, Sandy and Kidlington lanes, lead from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was in 1720, to regulate agricultural matters. 19 The two churchwardens were financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 … poor relief for periods longer than 13 weeks a year; many more were given casual relief. In the second decade of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually … half hide; it, too, was held by Roger d'Ivri. 64 Nothing more is known of the half hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of …