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Calendar of Treasury Books
… 10 d. each: total establishment 2 l. 15 s. 8 d. a day or 1015 l. 18 s. 4 d. per an.) King's Warrant Book XIX, p. … which have been uncollected by the reeves of the manor or if collected have not been accounted for. Warrants not … 273. May 19. Money warrant dormant for payment of the fee or salary of 64 l. 2 s. 1 d. per an. to Leonard Thompson …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… sums contained therein and of the interest due thereupon" or else in old hammered money of the fineness of sterling silver or in any foreign silver of that fineness by weight after the … to be registered in course: and when any future Aids or Supplies shall be granted by Parliament unto which the …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… of Oct. 6 last, notwithstanding any later presentment or warrant to the contrary. Ibid, pp. 70, 71. Treasury … husband in Ireland in guineas at the rate of 26 s. each or [in[ other coins of equal value to the said guineas. Ibid. … cannon on the De Grave, Capt. William Young commander, or any other ship going to the East Indies with Sir William …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Stephen Bigg and Richard Bigg from accompting for or paying the port of letters as follows on their paying … Office for the port of all letters coming from beyond sea or from Scotland to London for towns within their farm and … inhabitants thereof than the subsistence of the officers or men amount to. Ibid, p. 286. Same to Auditor Shales. The …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… recesses of the earth, and form springs, wells, rivers, or lakes, often materially differ from each other in their … (late). Water colour [water-colour; watercolour] A pigment or PAINT for which water is used as the solvent instead of … etc., and other goods sold on board vessels in a port or in the river. The BUSHEL water measure seems to have been …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… ...' [Ramsay (1750)]. ASHES made from plants that grow in or adjacent to salt water will pick up more sodium than … made with a Taper fork, and a Cross bar of Iron, some six or eight Inches above, and then hath a strong Socket, into which it is fixed a Staff with a Spade Head, as thick or thicker then the Spade shank: The cross is for the Foot of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the tithes of some estates in the parish being wholly or partly reserved to Shrewsbury abbey. 7 From 1232 the vicar … A curate was often, perhaps usually, employed, whether or not the vicar resided. The earliest known was mentioned in … and festivals; it is not known whether they were papists or protestant dissenters. 84 Puritanism was encouraged by …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… the Fosse. A stream flows west to join the Southwood brook or Emmett, 2 below 23 m. (75 ft). Another runs south from … by 1851. 10 Lydford, variously said to mean the broad ford or the ford over the torrent, 11 is likely to have been a … being derived from it. The ford was replaced by Lydford or Bridgefoot bridge, 12 probably between 1242 when the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… S.E. corner, and there are remains of the former feed-pipe or overflow in the middle of the S. end. The date of this … but, on the other hand, they do not resemble in form or texture the normal bricks of the 17th century, which seems … upper stages of the tower were rebuilt either at that time or later in the same century. Sometime in the 18th century …
Old and New London
… Christendom in the Middle Ages, whenever a bishop's see or a large abbey was founded, a school for the instruction of … as to its genuineness; but, at all events, genuine or not, it bears testimony to the tradition of an old … of our own enlightened age could afford a more creditable or amusing programme for his Prize Day, or "apposition," than …