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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… century yellow metal BUTTONs were popular with the poor, judging by the descriptions of runaway apprentices and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cleared but standard trees remained and grazing was thus poor. Labour services, valued at 51 s., comprised 140 owed … In 1647 it was said that the parish could not support its poor without assistance. 43 In the 18th century most relief … 1888. 46 In 1835 Yarlington became part of Wincanton poor-law union and in 1894 formed part of Wincanton rural district …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, and from c. 1815 it was used to support the school and … to the parish, of which £10 was to be distributed to the poor in meat and bread on Christmas Day and on the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 20th century, was sold in 1987. Although Yarnton was a poor living, several medieval vicars were long-serving, … Hall, who performed services regularly, attendances were poor; Gregory blamed his parishioners' 'thoughtlessness and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 39 were said by the vicar to be occupied by the 'labouring poor'. 79 From the late 19th century the major changes in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on clothes for the schoolchildren. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new cottages also'. … houses, 2 public houses, and 39 cottages of the 'labouring poor'. 7 Cottages were said in 1868 to be 'badly constructed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so assessed. … attended by c. 6 parishioners. 23 Two overseers of the poor were chosen annually by rota from the parish's leading … bench. 41 In 1834 Yarnton became part of Woodstock poor law union. In 1932 it was transferred to Witney rural …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 72 who by 1570 had been succeeded by his brother-in-law John Chamberlain, third son of Sir Leonard Chamberlain of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… almost 2400, the Minchmoor of about 2300, the Hangingshaw Law of 2000, feet above the level of the sea. The chief … has tended to diminish the number of applications to the poor's fund. There are in various places remains of the … by double fosses and ramparts. Upon the summit of Yetholm Law are the remains of a Roman camp of quadrilateral form, …