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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… col' tamit at 17d' [Inventories (1665)]. Given brimstone's inflammable character, it appears in expressions like 'fire … [Singer et al. (1957)]. An advertisement placed in Aris's Birmingham Gazette in its first year of issue, 1743, … Broad axe [brode axe; broad ax] An AXE with a broad head, used for hewing TIMBER, and formerly for war. A list …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in spring and autumn. During the 16th century the court's jurisdiction extended over breaches of the assize of ale … the court was held annually in Worthing, at the Spaniard inn in 1839, and at the town hall in 1855 and 1869. 20 The … v. 134; Cal. Pat. 1547-8, 27. V.C.H. Suss. i. 445, 447-9. S.A.C. lxi. 87; J.I. 1/912A rot. 43d. V.C.H. Suss. i. 389. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Brightlingsea 11. BRIGHTLINGSEA. (E.d.) (O.S. 6 in. xxxvii. S.E.) Brightlingsea is a parish and small … lights, with vertical tracery in a two-centred head with a moulded label, jambs and mullions. In the N. wall … On the first floor of the main block is an original king-post with a moulded base; the rest of the truss is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… now stands. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 44. 17. 11., and in the patronage of the Bishop of … erected in 1790. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 18. 16.; net income, 494; patron, W. F. L. …
Brightwell Baldwin
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… ('street ford') referred probably to present-day Ashley's wood 7 and Cadwell ford, 8 while detached meadow belonging … A separate two-hide estate in Brightwell was held from the king in 1086 by Roger, 14 almost certainly the Roger … barley, oats, and rye) increased from 455 a. to 548 acres. Head of cattle rose from 107 (none in milk) to 215 (including …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… estate held view of frankpledge. 14 Gloucester Abbey's tenants in Ablington apparently attended a biannual view … manor was held in the manor court by Cirencester Abbey's bailiffs and the lady of the manor received the amercements … on local trade and road traffic. Lechlade, sited at the head of the navigable Thames close to an important crossing …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ft. and 140 ft. above OD lying across the valley of Harper's Brook, here draining S.E. towards the R. Nene. Apart from small areas of … m. wide, still survives up-slope of it. To the N.E. of Old Head Wood (SP 93408274) the boundary crosses the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… monuments in Buckinghamshire Brill 13. BRILL. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxvi. S.E. (b)xxvii. S.W. (c)xxxi. N.E. (d)xxxii. … trefoiled pointed lights with sunk spandrels in a square head; the pointed segmental rear arch is chamfered; all the … partly blocked. ConditionFairly good. b(7). The Swan Inn, opposite the church, is of two storeys, built of brick …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Brilley 9 BRILLEY (A.d.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXIII, S.E., (b)XXIV, N.W., (c)XXIV, S.W.) … window of two trefoiled ogee lights in a square head and a modern doorway. There is no chancel-arch. The Nave … wall-plates and a central truss with tie-beam, collar and king-post and a simple bracket on the W. face of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Brimfield 10 BRIMFIELD (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)VII, N.E., (b)VII., S.E., (c)VIII, N.W., (d)VIII, S.W.) Brimfield is a parish on … wall; the W. window is modern, but above it is the round head of the original window. The second stage has an original …