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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the more harmless pigment, called Armenian Bole'. Accum's own recommendation, given in a recipe taken from the 'Cook's Oracle' (2nd edition 1819), used only CAYENNE PEPPER as … (late). References: Pemberton (1746). Anvil [anvyle; anvill; anvile; anvell; anveld] The block, usually of IRON, …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… out by John Champneys and Thos. Wyseham, groom of the King's chamber, upon the French ambassadors and other persons that were with them which brought to the King's grace five horses, which were sent from the French King about the feast of All Saints." Meat and drink, 40 s.; 9 doz. faggots, 9 s.; 33 bushels of oats, 16 s. 6 d.; …
The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… Another official was John de London, one of the king's clerks, who in 1281 was rewarded by a grant of 40 a year … 30 d. The master of the works, Walter de Hereford, had 2 s. a day, equivalent probably to 700 a year at the present … paid. From the farm of the county of Chestershire, 93, 6 s. 8 d. Arrears thereof 40, which the justiciar received. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 41 in 1421 and presumably earlier the earl of Arundel's fishery extended from the sea as far upstream as Pallingham … sent both to Arundel House in London and to Henry Howard's house at Albury (Surr.), and in the 18th century and early … Brighton, it may be the successor to a pre-Roman nobleman's farm. 54 No later Roman settlement in the parish is known. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bishop Astrop ASTROP, a hamlet, in the parishes of King's Sutton and Newbottle, hundred of King's Sutton, union of Brackley, S. division of the county of Northampton, 5 miles (W.) from …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… grassed over, and the long reen built in 1614 on the warth's landward side was dry and partly silted. South-west of Awre … early 19th century. 27 During 1850 and 1851, to Clegram's plans, a new wall and a series of cribs were built to … bank there was still crumbling in the 1980s. The Severn's fisheries and the river trade were sources of income and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Barrington 2 BARRINGTON (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 35 S.E., bTL 45 S.W., cTL 34 N.E., dTL 44 N.W.) Barrington Barrington is a …
Survey of London
… Thomas Witherell in 1794. 35 In fact, Edward Wood Stock's father Edward had already made plans to set out the street, … and 2425 were built upon his land. Walter Rean of Preston's Road, gentleman, acquired five plots and built Nos 67 and … acres at the east side of the field, adjoining the parish's land, to the East and West India Docks and Birmingham …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… salubrious. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 36; net income, 1008; patron, the Rev. Thomas … is a discharged vicarage, consolidated with that of King's Pion, and valued in the king's books at 5. 9. 7. Birling (All Saints) BIRLING ( All …
Calendar of Border Papers
… 1594 953. Carvill to Burghley. [June 2.] By your honour's letter of 28 th May received this day, "M r Archimbald … the officer of Burgh barony should dwell in her Majesty's castle of Rocklieffe, and Henry Lee now "marshiall steward" … Carey to Burghley. [June 8.] As directed by your honour's letter of 14 th May, sent by Nycholas Pindleburye merchant …