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A History of the County of Oxford
… when Mather also received 6 a year from the Presbyterian fund, the congregation was claimed to be 400500, presumably … that registered for worship in 1826, was rented from a coal dealer for use as a chapel, 137 though as usual with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for extra duty in Lent, and the remainder to the poor. A fund of 21 per annum, the produce of bequests from Richard … is wholly distributed among the poor, who also receive in coal the produce of 9 acres allotted at the inclosure. … some woodland and plantations. The substratum contains coal and lead, the former indifferent, and the latter very …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the produce of some other bequests, in money, coal, and clothing. The poor-law union of Wokingham comprises …
A History of the County of Essex
… to the poor; the interest appears to have been paid into a fund for the sick and poor during the 1920s, and distributions made in money, food, and coal. 22 M. B. Brown of New York had spent some years in …
A History of the County of Essex
… involved in more than one business. He was a warehouseman, coal merchant, and farmer, as well as an oysterman. The … makers. A coalyard was recorded in 1722, and there were 2 coal merchants in 1851. 23 In the 18th century and the early 19th coal from north- east England was transferred to lighters at …
A History of the County of Essex
… unionists, pick- eted Wivenhoe port to try to prevent coal being imported from abroad. 91 V.C.H. Essex, ii. 349; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… whereof two-thirds are pasture, and the remainder arable. Coal-mines have been wrought from time immemorial; conveyance … from Ancaster, in the county of Lincoln, in exchange for coal obtained on the estate. The mansion forms one of the … implements of husbandry, in which, and in the neighbouring coal, lead, and lime works, a great portion of the population …