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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with fine timber, and is well stocked with red and fallow deer: the oak-tree on which Hobbs, the last abbot of Woburn, …
A History of the County of Essex
… in 1086, 23 lay mainly in the north. The manor included a deer park, recorded in 1427, which seems to have been in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… 3 The building was sold for demolition in 1927. 4 A deer park was mentioned in 1475, apparently in the south- … later 19th century it amounted to 2,381 a.: the mansion, deer park, and pleasure grounds comprised 124 a. in Wivenhoe … Thomas in 1986-8. 13 Wivenhoe Park was built within an old deer park. In 1776-80 the park, of 34 ha., was landscaped by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from the stocks at Wolvercote (where he had been put for stealing a goose from Port Meadow) broke all the windows in …
A History of the County of Essex
… forest to farmers in the area was the immunity enjoyed by deer. Sir Bernard Whetstone complained in 1603 that although … the previous ten years because of the depredations of deer. In spite of this, he was still obliged to pay … of idle, profligate men whose careers began with deer-stealing, as also of hardened fugitives from justice. 62 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… white, pipeclayed gloves in large quantities. Heavier deer skin gloves continued to be made, but in 1839 no kid … in Woodstock had largely died out and although expensive deer and doe skin gloves were still made the chief product … the Great Exhibition of 1851 Woodstock was represented by deer and sheep skin gloves by Elizabeth Money and a machine …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… manor in 1279, 22 with a landing-place from which deer-poachers in the Forest of Dean were conveyed to Bristol …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… (54). Monuments (1011), Round Barrows A sharpened bone of deer 'found in Bullbarrows' ( Barrow Diggers, 77) may be from …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… per pound) and all manner of provisions soe excessive deer, by means thereof most of the contributors to the poore …