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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… OED offers no specific definition for the term, but the first quotation dated 1766, refers to '1 piece yard wide … described. An earlier equivalent is 'yard broad', which is first noted by the OED in the seventeenth century. The term …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Moor End except its manorial descent and the fact that it first occurs in documents in 1168 (PN Northants., 108). The … Clay between 95 m. and 110 m. above OD. The park is first mentioned in 1230 when William de Ferrers was granted a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 100 a., extending as far as the parish boundary where the lord claimed a deer leap in the 18th century. 78 It was known … in a lease of an adjoining cottage in 1714, the lord reserved the right to stand outside the park pale to … the market was ever held. The fair was worth 2 s. to the lord in 1344. 28 It was held on the Assumption in 1541 but by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the first charge on the bequest. 73 Alderman William Fletcher, by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but by 1579 the advowson had been bought by John Durant, lord of the manor, 51 and it descended with the manor … to the college, which failed to exercise its right at the first opportunity in 1761, and the bishop presented by lapse. … Yarnton's incumbents, was a working farmer. He kept the first known school in the parish and his pupils included the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… paid rent of 4 s. each and provided services at the lord's will; 7 half-yardlanders paid 2 s. 6 d. each with … for the livestock, and calves were not sold during their first year but kept and added to the cows and oxen, or … 20th-century farms. 67 Under the Spencers, who were the first recorded resident lords, Yarnton comprised a large, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… began to live in the parish. Contrary to common belief the first newcomers were not employees of the Cowley motor … farmhouses were probably roofed with stone slate from the first. Apart from the manor house, there are several … during a period of skirmishing north of Oxford, Ralph, Lord Hopton, a royalist commander, had quarters in Yarnton. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tenants were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… formerly held freely by Maino. Odo, bishop of Bayeux, was lord of the other half hide; it, too, was held by Roger … 20th by Stephen Howse, and sold by him shortly after the First World War to Edward Harris, whose son Edward was the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Society, established under the patronage of the late Lord Napier, and which holds a triennial meeting in this … Murray, senator of the College of Justice by the title of Lord Elibank; Dr. John Rutherford, pupil of the celebrated … last Tuesday in March, the third Tuesday in June, and the first Tuesday in October; they are well attended, and …