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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of stock for sale [Newspapers (1770)]. It may well have been present under the generic name of muslin in … descriptor that had a variety of meanings not now always well understood. The most common referred to an increase in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and ecclesiastical landowners over more numerous, but less well endowed, gentry families suffered no fundamental change … clearance of the wood by the abbey and its tenants was well under way. 23 Earlier in the century Haughmond abbey had … 1372-3 is thought to have been a sled or a harrow. 13 As well as being spread as farmyard manure dung was also dropped …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… were variations between parishes, depending on social as well as economic and geographical differences. On the north … not only did strip cultivation survive in some manors well into the 18th century but also large areas of common … the farmer payeth 3 s. 4 d. the acre and maintaineth well a family on the same'. 47 Generally Shropshire attitudes …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… livelihood in the 1850s and 1860s from 'high farming', well suited to the county's mixed husbandry. 23 The great … Drayton, 64 a complicated pattern of landowning might well survive for very many years. 65 The late survival of … Expectations of profit after inclosure were apparently well founded. Good land inclosed from Clun forest increased …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… with twice yearly pony sales; at Shrewsbury there was a well equipped repository next to the Smithfield with … livestock than on feeding the land. Shortage of capital as well as of labour may well account for the fact that, although the acreage of grass …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… small and discrete areas, particularly on the lighter and well drained soils associated with the county's main … a patchwork of closes; of woods full of grazing animals as well as people collecting and cutting wood; of heaths and … be considerable. The contribution of sheep husbandry may well explain the high value of land in the Clun region in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… which the total hidage of the county can be obtained, as well as that which can be arrived at by adding up the details … .. 1 h 2 v " (79) .. 1 h 3 v Walter fitz Other (49) .. 1 Holy Trinity, Rouen (98) .. 2 v Alveve, wife of Wateman Total …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… large and the Middlesex evidence is cited by Round in his well-known paper on the Five-hide Unit. 19 Of the 61 places …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… will ever give to Domesday Book the precision of a well drafted medieval survey. But the vagueness that baffles … description as 'the backbone of the rural community' 70 is well demonstrated here. The number recorded in Middlesex is … word' which will cover serjeants and household officers as well as knights and their squires. Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Domesday Survey Introduction IV IV Middlesex was well endowed with meadowland, a fact which is a reflection of … ( ville), a formula which covers the rights of peasant as well as lord. Pasture was more extensive than meadowland but … pasture although the bishop's own demesne manor was so well supplied that after meeting its own needs it had …