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A History of the County of Oxford
… histories. The writer is indebted to Professor H. L. Hawkins for reading the final draft, and for … in some quantity, notably in north Oxford (Summertown, &c.), and one late Acheulean implement (at Eynsham). Thus a … their conclusions with those made farther west: see W. B. R. King and K. P. Oakley, 'The Pleistocene Succession in the …
A History of the County of Chester
… Further south was the great monastery of Bangor (Flints.), c. 1,200 of whose monks were allegedly slaughtered by the … of this chapter. Bede, Eccl. Hist. ed. B. Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors, 140. V.C.H. Ches. i. 238-9. A. T. Thacker, 'Chester and Gloucester: …
A History of the County of Chester
… total, from £25-£30 a year in the later 16th century to c. £65 by 1640, through higher rents, stricter leasing … where otherwise stated, biographical details based on V.C.H. Ches. v (2), Lists of Mayors and Sheriffs; T. S. … 'Mayors'; Ches. and Lancs. Funeral Certificates, 1600-78 (R.S.L.C. vi), passim. C.C.A.L.S., ZAB 1, ff. 43 sqq., 211v. …
A History of the County of Chester
… cathedral precincts. Negligence led to undercounting by c. 15 per cent. 4 The corrected figure was thus 1,041 … B.L. Harl. MS. 594, f. 97 (for 1547-1605); House of Lords R.O., Protestation Returns (Chester City) and B.L. Harl. MS. … E. Rideout, 'Chester Companies and the Old Quay', T.H.S.L.C. lxxix. 163-74; C.C.A.L.S., ZMMP 2-3; Rolls of …
A History of the County of Chester
… 1550-1642 Chester's economy grew steadily from 1550 to c. 1600, not least because in the early 1580s and later 1590s … Shrewsbury Drapers and Welsh Wool Trade, 133-5; Salop. R.O., 1831, box 21. N. J. Alldridge, 'Loyalty and Identity in … Eng. Towns in Decline, 1350- 1800, ed. M. Reed, table 7. T.H.S.L.C. cxix. 96-7; P. M. Giles, 'Felt-hatting Ind. c. …
A History of the County of Chester
… Irish skins and hides, which numbered 3,000 or more a year c. 1705 but became fewer in the later 1710s and did not grow … Diary of Henry Prescott, i. 72, 117, 251; ii. 448-9. V.C.H. Ches. v (2), Roads and Road Transport: Roads; cf. … ZAB 3, ff. 93v., 255; ZAF 49C/17, 34; ZML 4/639-41, 655; R. Craig, 'Some Aspects of Trade and Shipping of River Dee in …
A History of the County of Chester
… Chester: Religion (The Dissolution); Burne, Monks, 173; V.C.H. Ches. iii. 175, 177; Cal. of Lancs. and Ches. Exchequer Depositions (R.S.L.C. xi), 108-10. Burne, Chester Cath. 19, 22-6; Tudor …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… communicants, which might suggest a total population of c. 4,400 people, compared with c. 3,500, in 1524. 2 The … was written in 19834. Trans. B.G.A.S. viii. 25361; P.R.O., E 179/113/189. Bodl. MS. Rawl. C.790, ff. 5v.6v., where … Heref. City Rec., misc. papers, vol. vi, no. 69. G.B.R., H 2/1, ff. 7475v.; B 3/1, f. 144. Ibid. B 3/1, f. 143 and v. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cent of the whole population, Oxford's population was only c. 2,665. Similar multipliers applied to the subsidy of … field. In 1583 a carrier's son from Carleton (Yorks. W.R.) was apprenticed in Oxford at almost the same time as a … and 1630s, when over 40 freemen were enrolled each year. H. E. Salter estimated that the total number of freemen in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… corner of the borough, on land sloping S.E. towards the R. Welland on limestone at 100 ft. above OD. Air photographs … 30 May 1879). Limited excavations on the site in 1933 by H. F. Traylen produced little information ( Antiquary 16 … the Town Hall in its upper room, and was demolished in c.1778 in order to improve access to the town (64). Site of …