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A History of the County of Gloucester
… and industrial decline. The River Avon provided power for corn-mills, but not enough as is evident from the use of … belonging to the abbot in 1291 61 or from the two water corn-mills on the Avon near the end of the town, occupied by … 119 In 1330 John Browne of Tewkesbury was trading in corn and other merchandise in various parts of the realm, 120 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… production of leather, and also an important place in the corn trade and the traffic on the River Severn. These and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… lost the right to collect tolls on the whole quantities of corn sold in the market by sample, and the cost of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the street, and the courtyard in front was intended for a corn market. 20 In or soon after 1839 the building was …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of Brightwell. The parish of St. Lucian was opposite the corn market, 50 extending up to the mill ditch and between …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… were near those gates of the town. 14 The building of new corn and fulling-mills on the meadow called Queen's Arbour by … mills at which all the tenants were bound to grind their corn. It was alleged on Pollington's side that the castle … which had open shops or stalls beneath it; there was a corn market, and a fish market held in the parish of St. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… oak dados. The space beneath the building was used for a corn market until 1856, when the corn exchange was built. Round the market-place are several … was granted to him. 123 In 12245 he was created Earl of Corn wall, 124 and he lived constantly at Wallingford during …
A History of the County of Warwick
… £1 13 s. 8 d. for church fees; £3 6 s. 8 d. for tithes of corn and hay in Longbridge, and £1 for tithes of wool and … when the dean and prebendary took two parts of the tithe corn and the college two parts of the tithes of hay and mills …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of several watermills in the town, most of them grinding corn. Six had been mentioned in 1086: two in Coten End worth … century the earls' tenants were not obliged to have their corn ground at the earls' mills: in 1479-80 they were certainly using St. Sepulchre's mill. 77 Corn from the town was also carried to Ford Mill, though both …
A History of the County of Warwick
… to be 'no trade to be reckoned of', but most people had 'corn and some husbandry', which was 'the chiefest maintenance … Thomas Oken, mercer, and several others dealt in corn and malt and invested the profits of their trade in … of the market. An overseer was appointed in the corn market in 1611 partly to prevent people winnowing corn …