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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… A contrivance by which two animals, especially OXen or BULLOCKs were attached to the hauling chains for drawing a … suggests that weaving of most such cloths was done by small farmers in the Peak District as a secondary occupation, … thus: 'Fustick imported from the Greek islands is in very small sticks, and is denominated by the trade young Fustick' …
Survey of London
… No. 6.This house appears to date from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, and is probably the original … headed window on the staircase with stout sash bars and a small window in the back room on the upper floor with similar … flush with the outer wall and the sashes divided into small squares. The hall is screened from the stairs by a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… of water, of 2 miles. There were four main gates, or bars, all with projecting barbicans, six postern gates, … in 1700, which were probably of the 17th century, but beam holes, partly blocked with brick, suggest that the Civil … was probably approached from the Castle Mills through a small pointed-arched doorway drawn by Halfpenny, 110 up a …
Survey of London
… at a reasonable rent, as the late Lord Keeper had it, or otherwise by promis from your Lordship to enjoy it for … of health increases, and the physicians promise me small comfort in this unsavoury house." 201 When Essex was … to force. On 7th February, 16001, he tried, with a small band of followers, to raise the citizens of London in …
Survey of London
… century Richard of Ely (also known as Richard FitzNigel or FitzNeale), Bishop of London, and author of the famous … by water with all his gentlemen and yeomen, which was no small number, and took his barge at his privy-stairs, and so … 1215 he was appointed justiciar, and in 1217 commanded the small English fleet in the first of England's great naval …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… and heir John Coke son and heir of Thomas Coke Manor sive (or sine?) a capital messuage, called Woulwheite, in the … gent. Arthur Darcy, kt., and Mary his wife The manor or garange, called Hell Graunge, and lands in the parish of … with the advowson of the same church and all the great and small tythes of the aforesaid in Staynton and Helluby, also …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… in Gumblethwayte and Oxspringe. Edward Wilde and Humphrey Small Godfrey Foliambe als. Brownlowe, esq., Edward … the Archangel, in the porch of Great Smeton Church, or in the place where the same porch now exists, between the … with lands in Ovenden and Southowrom. William Staindroppe (or Stamdroppe ?) Richard Hillingworth and Jane his wife …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yeo, and comprises 2946 acres, of which 589 are common or waste. The soil in the southern part is a red fertile … 419, and the glebe comprises 46 acres. The poor have some small bequests. Zeal, South ZEAL, SOUTH, a chapelry, in the … north; the line of coast is in some parts alternated with small bays and with projecting headlands, one of which is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Linn. 6. Red Mullet. Mullus barbatus, Linn. 7. Common or Ballan Wrasse. Labrus maculatus, Bl. Referred to by Baker … Said to be not uncommon in Bridgwater Bay. Specimens of small size are often brought to market with other fish. Baker … Hippoglossus vulgaris, Flem. Not uncommon, but generally small, a remark which applies also to the two following …
A History of the County of Somerset
… than 112 have been found in the county, and possibly one or two more may yet be added, such for instance as Vitrea … of Spanish liquorice was brought me which contained a few small white maggots. I put this into a closed glass jar, and … Drepana sicula, found only in the Leigh Woods amongst the small-leaved lime trees ( Tilia parvifolia) which are there …