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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… two animals, especially OXen or BULLOCKs were attached to the hauling chains for drawing a PLOUGH or a vehicle like … power most effectively. By extension the term came to be applied to a pair of animals, especially oxen. 'Yoke' … market for garden, woodland and orchard plants and a foreign visitor in the 1720s commented on the many gardeners …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… the circuit S.W. of the Ouse from Skeldergate Bridge, to Lendal Bridge, then, across the river, by Bootham and Monk Bars to Layerthorpe Bridge, and next along the Walmgate sector … 262. CCR, 131823, 175; 13237, 52; 13337, 154; PRO LTR Foreign Accounts, E364/14m. H.; CPR, 1464, 335. Building in …
Survey of London Monograph
… Duke of York in 1385, but the first reliable reference to York is in 1484 (see John Water). He is now one of the six … of a York herald is pat. 17 February 1484, granting to John Water alias Yorke, herald, as fee of his office and … fortune who served in Spain under Don Carlos and in other foreign forces; of uncommon physical strength and one of the …
Survey of London
… These in 1197, 1 the year before his death, he granted to his cousin, William of Ely, the King's treasurer. The … were the lords of the fee, and a yearly payment had to be made to them of a taper of 2 pounds of wax. A … out to be strangers coming "as ambassadors from some foreign prince," and the story has been utilised by …
Survey of London
… Winchester. At that time Gravel Lane extended northwards to the river along the line of the present Sumner Street and … on the 1745 edition of Rocque's map. Wilkinson refers 179 to the chapel as John Bunyan's meeting house and it is … and all the funds seem to have been raised by dissenting ministers and Baptist congregations "in and aboute London." …
A History of the County of Somerset
… grayana. The last named form is strictly confined to the Thames estuary, and its occurrence in a Somerset list must be due to a misidentification. Succinea oblonga has only been … is on the Bristol Channel, and ships from various foreign ports are constantly entering the docks, or passing …