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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old … of wider textiles. It is noticeable from the Dictionary's Archive that broader fabrics become more common during the … to the one for which both Richard Bradley and Eliza Smith gave recipes. Their recipes contained SAFFRON which …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is uncertain, 73 … cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … Northampton, who in the same year sold it to (Sir) Thomas Smith. 15 The Queen died in 1548 and in 1556 Sir Thomas sold …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of … because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … were a number of surnames derived from the occupations of smith, weaver, carpenter, gardener, chapman, and clerk. 62 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually … Thomas's daughter and heir Alice and her husband Thomas Smith both died in 1708 and were succeeded by their son …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Yatesbury YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by … Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field … John, 45 who apparently conveyed it after 1617 to Thomas Smith (d. 1637). Thomas settled it on his daughter Mary (d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Church CHURCH. Masonry of the 12th century or earlier re-used in the church porch … at Yelford by 1221. 99 In the later 13th century Yelford's incumbents were called rectors 1 and the living remained a … 1952 Parker sold it with the manor house to B. Babington Smith, whose family retained it when the house was sold in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Yelford's medieval open fields probably covered much of the area of the Hastings family's inclosed estate depicted … MS. Top. Oxon. c 118, f. 7 and v., mentioning both Mr. Smith's Great Linthorn and Mr. Hastings's Linthorn. Cf. also …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Introduction YELFORD YELFORD, one of Oxfordshire's smallest rural parishes until it was … econ. (agric.). Below, manors. Inf. from Mrs. H. Babington Smith. For Taberwell, Wadham Coll. Mun., 86/88, 121, 1234. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 Walter son of Ponz held of the king 3 hides in YELFORD, together with … in Gloucestershire, notably Southrop. 15 Later Walter's Domesday estate, sometimes described as the honor of … Ducklington, who sold the manor house to B. Babington Smith in 1952. 61 Of the Lenthalls' tenants at Yelford from …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 miles (S. W.) from Narberth; containing 148 inhabitants. This parish … Lewis, of Brecon, in 1733, bequeathed a house and a smith's shop; and Griffith Morgan, of this parish, charged …