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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old measure had been the standard before Edward III and was … the yarn in such phrases as 'all the wool and yarn in the house'. The made up yarn was then sent out to the weaver, … Yearling [yerlyng; yerelyng; yearlinge] An animal a year old, or in its second year, and used especially of CATTLE, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… It is said to have been the site of the manor house of Yardley Gobion (G. Baker, Hist. of Northants., II … Among the structures mentioned are a royal chamber, a chapel, towers, an old chamber and inner and outer gates. It remained in royal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (23) Dam Fig. 165 Yardley Hastings (24) Site of manor house b(20) Roman Settlement (SP 855529), S.W. of Biggin … a number of ponds of highly irregular and unusual form. In Old Pond Close (SP 876551) there is one which consists of two … appears to have been called Pottry Pond. Finally, N. of Old Pond Close, adjacent to the Pastures (SP 873552), are two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Stanbery). The Nave was re-built in 1862 probably on the old foundations, the chancel drastically restored at the same … chamfered and springing from modern attached shafts with old foliated capitals and moulded bases; the chamfered label … a dry ditch with a right-angled bend. (3). Showle Court, house, outbuilding and moat, 1,160 yards N.N.E. of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 85 There was formerly a green south of the medieval manor house and church. 86 Most houses date from the 18th and 19th … house at Yarlington. 31 In 1540 the site included hall, chapel, and gatehouse, 32 and later a fishpond possibly … kitchen, buttery, cellar, and 13 chambers including the old, new, long, and gallery chambers. 35 When the house was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's … account for the school and for the repair of the clerk's house. In 1971 the charity provided £15 a year distributed … in grants of up to £ 2; the parish clerk was living in the old schoolhouse and receiving £8 a year from the charity. 75 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter … an endowed vicarage of 5 marks a year, derived from a house formerly the chaplain's and all altar offerings except … 67 Such a house was built, west of the site of the old one, but apparently not until the incumbency of Richard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was … 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a … given an annuity of £5 for repairs to the parish clerk's house, any surplus to be used for the school; £3 or £4 of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of the boundary. 49 … of Church Lane, with a branch beginning north of the old school and emerging east of the Red Lion. 21 The … 6/958/19. Thomas, Night March of Chas. I, 22 n.; Ch. and Chapel, 1851, no. 506. The name is said to signify a …