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A History of the County of Essex
… warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held … on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and … council sold the waterworks in 1961 to Tendring Waterworks Co. which supplemented the supply by feeding in water from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … the chemical-works of Messrs. Mander Weaver and Co. have been established since 1773. Rowley ragstone is …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … by whom he had a daughter named Felice, married to John Armstrong of Thorpe, and a son called Hugh Willoughby, who … Willughby, who married Anne, one of the four daughters and co-heirs of Simon Leek of Cotham, Esquire, but he died …
A Dictionary of London
… "lay between the tenement of Sir John de Pulteneye and the tenement of Bartholomew Denmars and was a public way to the Thames. In 17 Ed. III. complaint … this=Wolsies lane. Wolsieslane See Wolsies Gate. Wood and Co.'s Wharf On the Thames at the south end of William Street, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … brickworks were opened by the Oxford and Berkshire Brick Co. on a site off Five Mile Drive in 1869; by 1871 they were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was … x, xiv; P.O. Dir. Salop. (1870), 118; I.G.M.T., Lilleshall Co. colln. 405. Cartlidge and Kidson, op. cit. p. xi. Ibid. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Few roads are likely to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was … to Shifnal, first mentioned in 1335. 70 Watling Street and the road via Priorslee to Shifnal were turnpiked in 1726. … of Oakengates. 85 In 1857 the Coalport Branch Railway Co. (later L.N.W.R.) obtained permission to buy the decaying …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in … because of increasing unprofitability, the Lilleshall Co. leased out its Woodhouse and Priorslee farms, which until …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In 1693 Robert Bromhall, LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 girls were attending two private day schools, 30 boys … chairman was William Perrott, secretary of the Lilleshall Co. 67 He was soon succeeded by Dr. J. McC. McCarthy, 68 who …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of Hadley and their son Alan gave land bounded on the east by a stream … was especially sharp in the 1850s 7 as the Lilleshall Co. began to develop the New Yard works. 8 In the 1880s …