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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Found described as COLOURED, ENGLISH Found in units of POUND Found imported and rated by the CWT See also WOOL YARN. … describing POWDER Found in units of C, HUNDRED, LB, OZ, POUND Found rated by HUNDREDWEIGHT, LB Sources: Diaries, … 8d the YARD up to 6s 8d the ELL, worsted yarn from 20d the POUND to 6s. OED earliest date of use: 1293 Found described …
The Environs of London
… which is at the rate of about one shilling in the pound. The manor. The manor of Wodeford 1 was given by Earl …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to William Harpeham for life, for the yearly rent of one pound of incense. 38 The manor was let on leases from at … 4 in Middle Woodford. In 1870 it was said that the parish pound was being used as a saw-pit. 124 There seems to have …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1659 rates were assessed on property values: 1 s. in the pound in 1707, rising in the late 18th century to 9 s. in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… On the S. is a walled garden, formerly the village Pound, but with the N. wall removed. (22) Originally one …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the town's almshouses and on the east by the common pound. 28 For much of the 18th century the property was held …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1569 and earlier in an adjacent close. 87 The common pound in the 17th century was at the top of Hollow Way on the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the latter newly built in 1687, and there was a parish pound at Sheephouse; 78 a pound remained at Brookend until the late 19th century. 79 …