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A History of the County of Somerset
… The largest, Pignes, accounted for more than half the assessment; it had 2 ploughteams, one each on the ½ hide of demesne and on the ½ hide of demesne of the priest there. There were 2 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its own poor. 19 Idstock and Beere maintained a poorhouse on the northern boundary of Beere farm beside the road to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to have lain in a band across the middle of the township, on a gravel and clay terrace which still provided the only … owed similar harrowing, mowing, and harvest services as on the same manor in Bampton, but no ploughing or fallowing … from villeins. The wealthiest taxpayer in 1316, assessed on goods worth £8, held a yardland with a share in a fishery, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… certainly by 1069, when its boundaries followed the Thames on the east and south, and streams on the west and north. A small deviation from the Thames, … must often have been impassable and was not always shown on early maps. 23 In 1317 demesne produce was carried to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… released the monks of Sibton from paying great tithes on their land at Badlingham c. 1220-30. 15 A dispute between … unoccupied c. 1805-37, and was inadequate in 1840. 38 Work on a new vicarage north-east of the church began in 1846, … but since 1954 has been a private house. 42 In 1954 a site on the corner of High Street and New Street was retained for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to 80 a. and 124 a., including potentially 12½ farmsteads on the holdings ( predia) involved, and two peasants … and owed 30½ days weekwork, ploughing and harvesting work on 8½ a., and rent of 2 s. 6d. Three other villeins did no … each owed 56 days of weekwork and ploughing service on 20 a. The three cottars, who held 2 a. each, rendered 48 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1885. 1 Since the closure of the school in 1978, interest on the charity's investments has paid for occasional …
A History of the County of Essex
… the bishop by lapse in 1441, 1487, and 1557 and the Crown on several occasions during a minority. When the parish was … it was reported that the church was assessed for subsidy on a tax de novo of 48 s. 59 The taxable value was thus … of it. The former rectory house had stood near the church on the north side. 71 In 1784, by a faculty dated 2 August, …
A History of the County of Essex
… to be more than a village. Chipping Ongar is situated on one of the few patches of glacial sand in this clay area. The parish is bounded on the east by the River Roding and on the south and west by Cripsey Brook. The land rises …