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A History of the County of Oxford
… arms, Nicholas Gunn's hall in 1602 containing two black bills, a halberd, a headpiece (or simple helmet), a … G. wood/ corrugated-iron stable, cart shed and store; H. rubble/blue-slated tool and chaff house). In the first … shed; N. whipping room and gig shop; O. weaving sheds; P. old drying shed; Q. dye house; R. dye store; S. cottages; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that was the 'old lock-up' condemned in 1852 as 'the Black Hole of Calcutta in miniature, unfit . . . for the … 2003, and was still used on ceremonial occasions. 352 J. H. Early, on behalf of local blanket-manufacturers, presented … life). Below (courts from the 16th cent.). Witney Ct. Bks. p. xviii; above, econ. hist. (15001800: Blanket Co.). Below …
A History of the County of Oxford
… documentary and map evidence. ( Buildings in heavy black excavated 198492). The medieval manor house, from the … built presumably for Marriott, and designed possibly by H. Wilkinson Moore. 52 Vestiges of Gray's house survive at … (parish bdies). Gelling, Early Charters of Thames Valley, p. 141; for a fanciful story concerning the grant, involving …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 169 while later family memorials included the large black marble tomb, surrounded by a low iron and gilt railing, … of the BVM. Giles, Hist. Witney, 312, illust. oppos. p. 38; Bodl. MSS Top. Oxon. d 213, ff. 767; d 216, ff. 1819; … DNB. Lambeth Palace Libr., reg. Whitgift, i, f. 299v.; V. H. H. Green, Commonwealth of Lincoln College (1979), 13942; …
A History of the County of Essex
… to the ferry. 96 Ferry House still stood at the bottom of Black Buoy Hill in 1995. 97 In the 20th century the Wivenhoe … mansion built just south of the Hall by Matthew Martin, M.P. for Colchester 1722-7 and 1734- 41 and director of the … few labourers' cottages were built in the 19th century by H. J. Gurdon-Rebow of Wiven- hoe Park 55 and N. C. Corsellis …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of baked clay, perhaps kiln bars, a few worked flints and black hand-made pottery, probably of Iron Age date ( JRS, 51 … to the W. (local inf.). For Roman Road 170, see p. 188. Medieval and Later Medieval pottery, including some … the furlongs to the N. of it were North Side Thatchway and Black Muddy Lands, to the S. Southside Thatchway and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 10, had any wool. Mary Hall (d. 1715) had 27 cows and a bull, worth £108, as well as 61 sheep. Three people kept … with land in neighbouring parishes. Cart. St. Frid. i, p. 472; L. & P. Hen. VIII, xx, p. 220; Blenheim Mun., map of 1765. Early Hist. St. John's Coll. (O.H.S. N.S. i), 511, 514, 524. St. John's Coll. Mun., LXXXIX. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Near the church are some slight remains of a priory of Black canons, founded in the reign of Henry I. by William … containing 275 inhabitants. It comprises 1413 a. 1 r. 32 p., of which 897 acres are arable. The living is a perpetual … valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of G. H. W. Heneage, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for 294. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the nominally independent partnership of Horton, Simms, & Bull, which had close links with the Lilleshall Co. and used … important in 1916 to be one of only two outside the Black Country that were members of the Marked Bar … medieval woodland. Cartlidge, Priory of Wombridge, 20. S.P.L., Deeds 2498, Mich. rental of 1663; MS. 2600, f. 17, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Bourne also preached near the town that year. Oakengates bull ring was regularly used for open-air preaching until … of Birmingham, it was built by Patrick Smith. 48 V.C.H. Salop. iii. 60, 237; Camden Misc. ix (Camd. Soc. N.S. … 235, plan of proposed schoolrm. (watermark 1857). Cf. P.O. Dir. Salop. (1856), 94; O.S. Map 1/2,500, Salop. XXXVI. …