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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… such as the 'Machine for glazing ... linens and cottons up to two yards wide' [Patents (1788)] must also have … phrases as 'all the wool and yarn in the house'. The made up yarn was then sent out to the weaver, indicated by phrases …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the R. Tove on the E. boundary to a little beyond Watling Street (A5) which forms most of the W. boundary. An … These have now been destroyed. A dry ditch 8 m. wide and up to 1 m. deep to the N.E. of the moat appears to be a … 748452) and the hedge is here in places on a bank again up to 1.5 m. high and 6 m. wide. The N. edge of the medieval …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of a large embankment, 190 m. long, 25 m. wide and up to 3.5 m. high, broken towards the N. end to allow the … of a large rectangular enclosure bounded by a low bank up to 1 m. high with similar internal banks at its E. end. At …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 13th-century windows of a single trefoiled light; higher up in the W. wall is a window of the same date and of two … N.E., is a dry ditch with a right-angled bend. (3). Showle Court, house, outbuilding and moat, 1,160 yards N.N.E. of the … (13). Cottage, 60 yards E. of (12). (14). Monksbury Court, about 1 m. N.E. of the church, is of 18th or …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the junction of four lanes: Pound Road to the west, West Street to the south-west, South Street, now Lodge Hill, which … his only surviving son Roger (d. 1961 s.p.), who divided up the estate for sale in the 1940s. Lordship was not … manor in the later Middle Ages, one incorporating a court leet. 36 Estreats survive for the 1540s, when the court …
A History of the County of Oxford
… poor. In 1835 Vaughan Thomas and the churchwardens drew up a schedule for the better management of the distributions. … £15 a year distributed amongst c. 20 people in grants of up to £ 2; the parish clerk was living in the old schoolhouse …
A History of the County of Oxford
… corner of the chapel; 2 it was moved, and allegedly broken up, to make room for a memorial to Charlotte (d. 1850), wife …
A History of the County of Oxford
… management of the manorial estate, which was divided up among tenants, of whom there were as many as 20 in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… road to Cassington and Eynsham forms the main village street. 61 It has been suggested that an earlier road from … along Church Lane' but had been 'widely scattered up and down on the wastes' when the Spencer estate was … though dispersal may have begun long before the break-up of the Spencer estate. Any houses on the west side of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund … at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at the honorial court at North Osney. Villeins as well as free tenants were, … Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the manorial court was in 1720, to regulate agricultural matters. 19 The …