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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the hills, an effect somewhat like thunder, and one or two French horns that of an harmonious concert of musical …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… of the City touching their Mill, which, without injury or hurt to the common weal, they desired to maintain with … the assent of his lordship, which he heartily desired, or otherwise the work would be in peril of failing, and the … City begged his lordship, either by letter to Mr. Randolph or the City, to give his sanction and encouragement. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… passage. The upper windows are sash, the lower altered or enlarged. The freestanding pair, three storeys with …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1960 rose steadily from £25 to £180 by 1970, enabling 8 or 9 tons of coal to be distributed among 80-100 poor people. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… catechized in Lent, and had 20-30 people attending the 3 or 4 sacraments held yearly as was the practice from the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to the manorial estates, numerous smallholders with little or no arable could support themselves on the extensive … 1500 after the village crofts, later Cambridge Way field or furlong. About 1868 it was reckoned as 68 a. 4 Hall field … lower ground that sometimes flooded, lay the Great Hallugh or Hollow, c. 223 a. in 1868, 6 with the Little Hollow, c. 9 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fenland, yielding £5 a year in 1729, when £3 12s., or 1 s. a month for each child, went to the school. … 1818, and chosen in the 1820s by the lessee of Denny Abbey or his agent, learnt to read on the foundation. The master, … but was in 1863 reckoned incompetent either to teach or to keep order, and there were very few schoolbooks. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… covers 2,327 ha. ( c. 5,750 a.). 95The boundary follows on the southwest old open field divisions and the Car Dyke or Old Tillage, the 2nd-century navigation channel, which, … Ditch, which meanders along a course to the west, largely follows the eastern boundary of the former open fields, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from suing their fellows elsewhere, in courts Christian or royal courts, and penalized those who did so before it had … some from outside the parish, and those who sold ale or bread without using lawful measures. 43In 1466 it forbade … at occasional leets from the 1750s, as well as 2 or more haywards each year until inclosure. 49 Ordinary …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1342. A few nuns remained in the buildings at Waterbeach or escaped back to them, but in 1350-1 royal and papal … in 1631 he left the Denny lease to his daughter Anne (or Agnes) (d. 1646), who already lived in the abbey, wife of … 90Sold in 1875, they were thereafter divided into four or five distinct, often owner-occupied, farms. 91 V.C.H. …