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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… According to witnesses, White had called Seabrooke 'scab' or 'scrub' and threatened, 'If thou croppest here I will … of North Crawley aforesaid, yeoman, giving him no cause or couler of offence, Sebroke to abuse and provoke your … and Mr White together in the field 'about halfe a furlong distant from [him]'. He 'observed by their gesture …
A History of the County of Somerset
… on Charlton Horethorne and Stowell is divided by a valley or combe running east to west now occupied by a stream and … the parish in 1860 and a station, later known as the Upper or Top station, was opened west of the main street. In 1878 … 1983. 13 The earliest known settlement is a late IronAge or Roman site near the boundary with Horsington parish; near …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Abdon common, which were not finally fixed until the 17th or early 18th century. 90 In 1884 the civil parish absorbed … Most of the parish drains south and west towards Tugford (or Norncott) 94 brook, which forms the parish boundary on … by the mid 17th century. The names Mill field and Mill furlong, mentioned in 1642, 43 probably refer to a nearby …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the manor, in 1642, to a customary payment from every wain or cart passing to or from Lea (Herefs., formerly Glos. and Herefs.) with wares. … northern part of the parish included pieces known as pit furlong and pit dole. 22 The parish contained several …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… in the area during 1960 is said to have destroyed a kiln or kilns though no details are recorded (Johnston 1969, 93). … have been to some degree rebuilt in the late 17th century or early 18th century. There was a major re-construction in … as far as the Billing Road. A number of outlying farms or lodges appeared in the parish in the late 18th or early …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… OD, is covered by Boulder Clay. No remains of prehistoric or Roman date have been noted in the parish but there are … appear to have been fitted into the end of a pre-existing furlong of ridge-and-furrow and thus must post-date the field … ditches on the N.E. appear to continue the furrows of the furlong to the S.E., as does another ditch crossing the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… sword with decorated scabbard mounts (Piggott's Group V or 'Battersea' type) was found in 1968 in the dried-up river … mace (near Group I) is said to have come from this parish or from Polebrook (Peterborough Museum). b(1) Prehistoric … but local information states that there were five or six skeletons as well as pottery and bone needles. *a(15) …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… The pensioners in both hospitals consist of decayed pilots or masters of ships, or their widows; the single men and widows receive about 18l. … deep sand-pit, in which there is a stratum of marle, six or eight feet thick, in which are found great numbers of …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… by Thomas Chetham. S.P. Ireland 213, 1. 1567. Richard Peel or Peek [?] to William Wenter [Winter] and Edward Baishe [?], … I will put into meal. I have plenty of everything else, or can obtain it if I have money to pay for it. The prines … malt varies from 12 d. to 15 d. the wendell. Oats is 13 d. or 14 d. the wendell. My reckoning is that six wendells will …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ridge-and-furrow of the former common fields still remain, or can be traced on air photographs, over the whole parish in … of the village, alongside a small brook. It is straight or slightly curved, within existing fields and with …