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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… yield of the whole vill fell by a quarter between 1066 and c. 1070 and had only slightly recovered by 1086 to £13 10 s. … occupied about half the arable. That of Crowlands included c. 480 a. in 1322, 1 while Swavesey priory had 120 a. c. … cf. Beds. R.O., R 5/4484. Camb. Chron. 3 Sept. 1808. C.J. lxiv. 9, 30, 164, 256; Dry Drayton Incl. Act, 49 Geo. III, …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… 5 LANDSCAPE The Leadon flows through Dymock in a valley at c.30 m. Most of the parish is gently rolling countryside … named 108 men of the parish, 10 which was said to have c.440 communicants in 1551, 11 106 households in 1563, 12 400 … 26 the Old Rock changed owners in the later 1940s and S.J.S. Walker sold the farm (171 a.) to F.N. Cross in 1949. 27 …
A History of the County of Chester
… the city. 5 Shakerley rightly suspected that the aldermen J.P.s would deal leniently with the rioters, and the … 338 by birth and 162 by apprenticeship in 1720, 13 and c. 450 and c. 175 in 1732. 14 Mayoral elections in the early 18th …
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 … that owned at Liverpool. By the 1730s it had fallen to c. 1,650 tons, barely a tenth of Liverpool's total, and in … 10 but thereafter left the aldermen, sitting as J.P.s in the inner Pentice, to deal with vagrants and …
A History of the County of Chester
… for attackers. The corporation meanwhile took charge of c. £928 of the city's charitable endowments, 1 raised three … election of 1644. The first nominees of the aldermen J.P.s were Sir Francis Gamull (newly made a baronet) and Sir … city had been burnt. 9 By the end of the siege there were c. 6,000 civilians crowded into the walled city. Filth …
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 … that Oxford's population in the early 16th century was c. 3,000. Parish registers show a sharp increase in recorded … occupation are omitted. Occupations are classified as in J. F. Pound, 'Social and Trade Structure of Norwich', Past …
A History of the County of Warwick
… these reference should be made to the works of G. C. Allen and W. H. B. Court, which treat the conurbation as a … machine 68 was a gunmaker called Richard Heeley ( c. 1732). The diversification of metal products can be traced … than Edward, the jeweller 'back of Livery Street'. 12 J. G. Bodmer, the noted German engineer, visiting Birmingham …
A History of the County of Warwick
… had been William Bayliss (1773-81) and Thomas Archer ( c. 1781-92). 3 By 1814 this mill had been converted into a … 67 By 1900 it had become part of the works of J. & E. Sturge, chemical manufacturers. 68 The mill building … 83 By 1875 the mill had been taken over by C. Clifford and Sons, metal-rollers and tube-makers, 84 who …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the elder, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir William Herschell, Daniel C. Solander, Joseph Berington, John Roebuck, Samuel Garbett, … West, and about the same time Joseph Barber and his son J. Vincent Barber opened another at the corner of Edmund … Home, ed. Pratt, i. 315-16. Dent, Making of Birm. 155; H.C. Bolton, 'The Lunar Society', T.B.A.S. (1888-9), 79; R. E. …
A History of the County of Chester
… in the causeway at Chester. 34 Although favoured by the J.P.s of Flintshire and Cheshire, the order was vigorously … a new cut across Saltney marshes and estimated that c. 6,000 a. would be reclaimed to set against the cost. … 2.60 Liverpool 2 300 0.78 Total 130 38,500 100.00 Source: C.C.A.L.S., ZQRP 1/1 (printed List of Subscribers, 1772) …