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A History of the County of Stafford
… 2 ploughteams were worked by 9 villani. There were 16 a. of meadow, and woodland measured 1/2 league in both length and breadth. The value of the manor had increased from £3 in 1066 to £3 10 s. in … with 70 mares and foals, possibly a survival (or revival) of one established after Wulfric Spot bequeathed 116 horses …
A History of the County of Stafford
… She departed for Ireland, leaving Andresey in the care of two female companions, and died, but her body was brought back for burial on Andresey. The details of her life, which are never fixed chronologically, place … is executed in an Arts and Crafts Gothic style and has a grey, rock-faced exterior of Coxbench and Weldon stone and an …
A History of the County of Stafford
… A minster church was refounded as a monastery at the turn of the 11th century, and in the late 12th century the abbey … brewing industry began to assume national importance. Part of Horninglow then became a suburb, as did Stapenhill and … it was promptly driven out by the forces of Gell and Lord Grey of Groby, commander-in-chief of the East Midlands …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… L-shaped, covers nearly 7000 acres approximately N.W. of Newmarket. The S.E. part is entirely on the chalk and … The fenland was formerly peat-covered, the greater part of which, on the S.E., has now disappeared owing to drainage … by Lee Cotton and Thomas Bates. Brass: in chancel, set in grey marble slab (10 ft. 2 ins. by 4 ft. 6 ins.) with some …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1873 there were altogether 700-800 dissenters, two fifths of the population. 18 In 1676 the vicar reported 33 … 22 Burwell's oldest surviving congregation was one of Independents, for whose worship a house on High Town may … the street to the one-storeyed Sunday school building, of grey brick trimmed in red, opened in 1907. 40 In 1988, with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… SE, c SP 55 NW, d SP 55 SW) The roughly rectangular parish of 1230 hectares lies across the valleys of four small … Sand at 177 m. above OD. Roman pottery, including grey and colour-coated wares and a mortarium sherd, … the angle. This was associated with ashes, charcoal and 'grey pottery'. A 'mill stone or quern' was also found about …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Payments made by Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Lord Harrowby of Sandon Hall, Staffs. to Cable Cabt. Maker of 13 1s on 30 … St but by 1837 was at 9 King St, Soho and in 1839 at Wilton St. [D] Chapell, Daniel, London, upholder (171233). … 1837 advertised for sale a large quantity of WHITE & GREY GOOSE FEATHERS & FEATHER BEDS. Also Bedsteads, Tables, …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… C Charter of disponition of Subdean Milns (1620) C. Charter by Sir Walter Stewart of Mynto, disponing to the Provost, Bailies, Dean of Guild, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… A well known culinary vegetable; a cultivated variety of Brassica oleracea, the unexpanded leaves of which form a globular heart or head. Originally, a cabbage … Now commercially applied especially to the fur of the grey or Siberian squirrel. OED earliest date of use: 1362 …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1524, D.D. (sup. Jan. or Feb.) 1525-6, Cistercian abbot of Newenham, Devon. See Fasti, i. 71; & O.H.S. i. 134, 142. … Cambridge, 1613, M.A. 1616, incorp. 9 July, 1616, vicar of Saleby, co. Lincoln, 1618. See Foster's Index … July, 1658 (called Capell in Mat. Reg.). Cabell, Richard of Devon, pleb. Exeter Coll., matric. 12 Dec., 1600, aged 18; …