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A History of the County of Shropshire
… wet weather. On the Sutherland estate farms bordering the river Tern had had their meadows and pasture land destroyed … by the extension of the county council's activities to river and land drainage work and campaigns against injurious …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… wood, in Prees, in 1254 by a thief who stole his seven black pigs is unusually revealing. 70 Pigs, like sheep, … especially, draining the Weald Moors, was an ideal eel river. Most fisheries probably comprised some form of weir … could be suspended. The evidence suggests, as later, that river traffic was able to pass the weir by means of a bylet …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… it is recorded that 'from the seines and drag-nets in the River Thames are rendered 3 s. ( de sagenis et tractis in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the seines and drag-nets ( de sagenis et tractis) in the River Thames [are rendered] 3 s. The whole is worth £39; when …
Survey of London
… how the fast horses that he chose for his yellow-and-black carriage brought him in from their big house at Barnes … Gloucester Road (Sir) Edwin Lutyens added in 1903 for Adam Black a music-room which is an early example of his …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… the house had been founded, difficulties arose between the Black Friars of Norwich and those of Dunwich as to the bounds … act as arbitrator. The decision was to the effect that the river which divides Norfolk from Suffolk was to be the bound … suppressed twenty houses of friars, among them being 'the Black and Grey in Dunwich.' He further reported that the lead …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… bailiffs and commonalty of Ipswich unanimously granted the Black Friars a plot of land south of their curtilage, which … whose names are on the martyrology register of the Black Friars' benefaction: The Lord Roger Bigot, …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… at Waddington, near this town, gave 30 s. to the thirty black friars of Sudbury for three days' food. 7 Father Palmer …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the buildings may be traced. The parish is situated on the river Trent, by which it is bounded on the north-west, and … stood upon a declivity, at the foot of which runs the river Kennet. It was garrisoned for Charles I., and withstood … Swinbrooke, has an endowment of 10 per annum. A priory of Black canons was founded here in 1140, by Alexander, Bishop …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and a municipal borough, stands on the right bank of the river Frome and now includes within its boundaries the parish … Charles Eldridge, 1846, Sarah his wife, and another later, black and white marble tablet on lion-leg supports. In … wife of William Henning, 1825, and William Henning, 1842, black and white marble tablet with draped urn; (3) of Rev. …