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A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might … for bringing fruit and other perishable food from Spain and the eastern Mediterranean in exchange for herrings, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES The manor of WIVENHOE was an estate of 5 hides less 15 a. … who was knighted in 1588 for his part in fighting the Spanish Armada, 99 was succeeded by his son John, his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of … granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Leveson, who commanded under Sir Francis Drake against the Spanish Armada; also a monument to the memory of Colonel John …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… wood ashes] Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of … to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It … (American wormseed) and Halogeton tamariscifolium (Spanish wormseed). Accum, writing in 1820, claimed that …
A History of the County of York
… Worship in the Minster WORSHIP IN THE MINSTER The Middle Ages It has … Roman canon of the mass, the system of daily offices and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's … provided for the new altar in 1942; in 1949 a 16th-century Spanish silver cross was placed on the altar, together with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Manor and other estates Manor and other estates In 1005 Ealdorman … cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … who resold it in 1936 to George Kolkhorst, Reader in Spanish at Oxford University. On his death in 1959 it was …
Survey of London Monograph
… HERALD Spelman thought that York herald was originally the officer of Edmund of Langley, created Duke of York in … to John Water alias Yorke, herald, as fee of his office and for services to Richard III, his predecessors and … mistake for Risebank; York 1528; sent with despatches to Spain and elsewhere 1522, and 152789; d. June 1530. His s. …
Survey of London
… York House CHAPTER 6: YORK HOUSE The York Water Gate (see pp. 5960) in the Victoria Embankment … surviving relic of the great houses which in the medival and Renaissance periods bordered the Strand between the … House on their return from their unsuccessful visit to Spain in October, 1623, and in the following month the Duke …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Zoology Molluscs and Insects ZOOLOGY MOLLUSCS NON-MARINE Favoured in its situation and the quality of its soil, the county of Somerset yields a … common lathonia, L. Only one specimen of 'the Queen of Spain,' has been recorded, taken near Nailsea, about 1858 …