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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… is said to have 16 borderers there, with lands valued at 5 s. per ann. 1 the capital manor of these towns belonged to … by the bailiff of the abbot, in the presence of the Bishop's bailiff, if he so thought fit, as it used to be peacefully … John Eyre, Esq. in the 36th of Henry VIII. had a great close in in Outwell, called Wadingstowe, belonging lately to …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… he had seized on, as the survey sets forth. In Turchetil's time this lordship consisted of one carucate of land, 8 … &c. 4 skeps of bees and a church; the whole valued at 60 s. per ann. was 5 furlongs long, and 2 broad, and paid 2 d. … No remains of it are visible at this time; it was in a close, opposite to the castle of Wirmegay, on the left hand, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Half West-Derham WEST-DERHAM. We learn from the Conqueror's book of Domesday, that there were at that time several … had the protection, with 2 carucates, valued at 35 s. Bordin holds of Hermer 3 of them, and a moiety of the … by Sir Simeon Stuart, Bart.; the site of it was in in a close, called Hall-Close, south-west of the abbey of Derham, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… 2 cows, &c. 90 sheep, at the survey, 260, valued at 100 s. It was half a leuca long, and the same in breadth, (and paid six pence half penny to a 20 s. gelt;) it had paid 8 l. with all customary dues, and 4 … two bars, and a chief indented, or. Wyrun-Hall Stood in a close at the eastern part of Werham, on the west side of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of Cathcart, Upper ward of the county of Renfrew, 2 miles (S. by W.) from Cathcart; containing 180 inhabitants. It lies … in the district of Alford, county of Aberdeen, 10 miles (S.) from Huntly; containing 524 inhabitants. The Gaelic word … of the appearance of the surface of the parish. About the close of the 17th century, the designation Colinton chiefly …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Pepys payed 26s 6d the yard for cloth to make his wife's PETTICOAT, though admitedly he regarded it as excessive … (Pepys)], whereas in [Inventories (1695)] a READY MADE boy's COAT of cloth was valued at a mere 9s. Like most textiles, … basket [cloths basket; cloth baskett; cloth basket; close baskit; close baskett; cloathes basket; cloath baskett; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Open Fields and Commons Until inclosure in 1839 Clanfield's open fields lay west and east of the village, covering over … rotation; 3 Tarney ('thorn-bush island') in West field's southern part was mentioned as a separate field about 1235, … in 1430 a cottage was let with an adjacent house-plot and close for 3 s. 6 d., suggesting vacancies and rent …
A History of the County of Oxford
… some of it formerly extra-parochial, increased Clanfield's area first to 1,713 a., and later to 1,798 a. (728 ha.), … minster: after following the Thames westwards to 'Garford's brook', presumably the stream forming Clanfield's later … west of the main street, south of Pound Lane on Busby's Close, and east of the Black Bourton road near the church. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (d. c. 1095). 3 The estate was said to be 'of the king's first fee', perhaps indicating recent separation from the … Before 1146 the overlordship passed with Roger d'Ivri's other lands to the St Valery family, descending with the … IV, 244, 264. For Alice's fee, below (Southwick fee). Close 126872, 106; Bampton Hund. 29; VCH Bucks. IV, 244. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century, the date of the existing font. 6 A pension of 6 s. 8 d. recorded from the 13th century seems originally to … the rector of Alvescot, perhaps indicating that Alvescot's chapel pre-dated Clanfield's; the pension continued in the … reg. IX, f. 255; XI, f. 320v.; XX, f. 229 and v.; Cal. Close, 14229, 229. Cal. Papal Regs. XVIII, 408. Reg. Sutton, …