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Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XXII Bull of Pope Nicholas V, founding the University (1451) XXII. Bull … V., ordaining a University to be founded in the City of Glasgow. Rome, 7 January 14501. [Latin text] Nicolaus … anno quarto. [Translation] Nicholas the Bishop, servant of the servants of God, for perpetual memory of the fact. …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… 179199. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1784 for 600 of which 400 accounted for utensils, stock and goods; on 5 … (17881818). Polled at St Mary's, Norwich, 17961806: of Ipswich in 1799, South Walsham in 1812, and St Stephen's, … Cordwainer Ward, and was elected in 1768 one of the Commissioners of Sewers, Lamps and Pavements. He is listed in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yazor Y Yaddlethorpe YADDLETHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of Bottesford, union of Glandford-Brigg, E. division of the … fish here, and some, at a defined distance, from foreign countries. The mackerel-fishery is also extensive. The … to the port, and applied, under the direction of twelve commissioners, to keeping the jetties and piers in repair, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old … 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in all sections of the … FLAXEN, HEMP and linen yarn from (among others) the Low Countries, MUSCOVY, and Prussia (defined as SPRUCE), and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 lies 6 km. south of Bruton. It is roughly triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family … allowed to fall into disrepair because the original terms of the endowment had not been complied with. Despite local protests the Charity Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church of the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel … of his fellowship at Exeter College by the parliamentary commissioners, 75 seems to have had little contact with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along … c. 300 a.) of demesne recorded elsewhere. 20 The inclosure commissioners of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish … boundary until 1788-9, when the Oxford canal took much of the stream bed. 42 Field boundaries separate Yarnton from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates … apparently, Yarnton. In 1086 Eynsham's estates were held of the bishop by Abbot Columban, but 9 1/2 hides at Yarnton, …