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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… where it was listed among some HARNESS as 'j Balle kant for a Cart' [Inventories (1634)]. 'Ball' is an uncommon seventeenth-century term for the NAVE of a wheel. Whether that was what was meant … then covered to give a more decorative finish. In 1634 an 'Engine' was patented, 'for cutting timber into thin pieces or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or, less commonly, thatched roofs. 53 Much stone for 17th- and 18th-century rebuilding came presumably from … the 1870s, when the ground floor included a lockable fire-engine house. 27 A small, single-storeyed extension on the … purposebuilt fire station on New Road c. 1971 30 the large engine-doors were blocked, and in 1992, when the upper floor …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Deanery manors and on Ilbert de Lacy's estate. 46 Hay for winter feed at Witney was bought at Bampton in 1334-5, 47 … to All Saints, though commons in Ham field were reserved for tenants of Ham Court. Weald's and perhaps Bampton's … manor was mentioned in 16th-century fines, 73 but except for a small coppice on the northern boundary there was no …
A History of the County of Oxford
… boundary presumably by the 15th century, when quitrents for a meadow on its west bank belonged to the lord of Haddon. … and, c. 1789, at Tadpole bridge. Fines were instituted for those avoiding tolls by cutting across fields or meadows … north tun), divided before 1066 into 1-hide holdings for royal thegns. 91 Though no archaeological evidence has …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 17th century. Officers included a constable and tithingman for each tithing, a field warden for Bampton and another for … 30 The churchwardens paid for repair of a parish fire engine in 1813, 31 and in 1850 the vestry recommended … procuring a new one and erecting three public pumps. The engine was again replaced c. 1880, and a motorised one was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the hamlets became less clear; in a deed of 1653, for instance, a precisely located holding was said to lie in … years earlier. 384 Charles Lampitt produced a mobile steam-engine in 1847, and John Lampitt invented systems of two- and … iii (6), 112 and cover illustration of Lampitt traction engine of 1888. Ibid. iii (3), 45; iii (12), cover …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Nonconformity, p. 108. Education, p. 120. Charities for the Poor, p. 124. The borough of Banbury lies 22 miles … built-up area of the town. From 1544 the tax assessments for the hamlets were entered in a single list, 11 and after … and where deep is some of the best in the county for corn growing; the clays of the Lower and Upper Lias are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… organization was in general outline that which continued for the next two hundred and fifty years, until the break-up … to assist. 344 By 1852 two fire-engines were kept in an engine house in Calthorpe Street. In 1854 one was moved to … were given the direction and control of the brigade, engine, and equipment, while the board agreed to pay for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Denton of Hillesden (Bucks.), one of the petitioners for the first charter, and he was succeeded by his brother … Walsingham was elected in 1562 but chose to sit instead for Lyme Regis (Dorset). 3 The 'unadulterated Puritan' Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell was member for most of the reign of Elizabeth I, 4 and a Cope of Hanwell …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and burnt several of their houses, in compensation for which losses, they obtained, on their petition to … to ten men; the works are set in motion by a steam-engine of six-horse power, constructed by the proprietors. … a vaulted chamber, now occupied by the boiler of the steam-engine belonging to that establishment. A portion of the …