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A History of the County of Stafford
… He narrowly defeated a candidate sponsored by the Anti-Corn Law League, which was intervening for the first time in … 410-17; Homeshaw, Walsall, 157; N. McCord, The Anti-Corn Law League 1838-1846, 83, 85-6, 88-9, 95. Staffs. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Row, Waltham Abbey, under the leadership of John Wright, a corn merchant. 136 During the pastorate of John Auther … John Edmondson placed the rent charge on property near the corn market, and applied it to the support of the church …
A History of the County of Essex
… connected with the forest are mentioned elsewhere. 63 CORN MILLS. In 1066 there was one mill belonging to the manor … to the lord of the manor. 66 This was possibly the corn-mill which in 1735 belonged to Charles Wake Jones and … on a map of 1777. 68 As the gunpowder mills expanded, the corn-mill declined, and it was bought by the Ordnance Board …
A History of the County of Essex
… 17 presentments were made at the forest court for sowing corn land in small inclosures: 3 no doubt those were assarts. … cropped by parish resolution because of the scarcity of corn. 21 In later years the Higham Hill and Church commons … mill at d. each, harvesting, carrying, mowing, and binding corn at 1 d., reaping at 4 d., and ploughing at 8 d. 62 In …
A History of the County of Essex
… exceptional distress followed a bad harvest in 1800 and corn was scarce, a general meeting of inhabitants decided to … 10 s. an acre for bread for the poor as soon as the corn was carried. The inhabitants also resolved to supply the …
A History of the County of Essex
… 8 a. there in return for a life grant of six loads of corn yearly. 251 In 1226 the same parties sued Thomas, son of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Its basement story is appropriated to the use of the corn-market, with an ample space for the sale of various … a discharged vicarage, endowed with one-fourth part of the corn-tithes, and onefourth of the small tithes throughout the … ruins, the only tenable part having been converted into a corn-mill. When the Ellesmere canal was projected, it was in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of stuffs, and calico-printing. There are also three corn-mills, and some mills for the preparation of iron, … twine, malt, and flour. Coal is brought hither, and corn, flour, and malt are sent to different parts, by means … is held every alternate Saturday, and is chiefly for corn, but also for pigs and cattle. Fairs take place on the …
Old and New London
… are Messrs. Watney's distilleries, besides some large corn mills, dye works, match factories, starch factories, … for a picture painted in 1786 shows the reapers in the corn-fields here, and a windmill in full operation at the …
A History of the County of Essex
… in 1796 that the arable in Wanstead comprised 100 a. corn and 50 a. potatoes. 25 During the following decades …