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A History of the County of Shropshire
… conflicts. In the last quarter of the 19th century farming at county and national level was affected by a variety of … mainly arable Bridgnorth district, which suffered most, they varied from 10 to 40 per cent. 16 Both wars saw … 2,486 - 812 16,859 Source: Agric Returns G.B. The figures are for 3 June in each year. Agricultural wages rose in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was pastoral and widely dispersed: by and large they were in the areas with poorer soils and less immediate … grazed, and more closely managed and regulated, than at any stage in the past. It was a full and busy landscape, … which reveal that story, as for the rest of the country, are relatively few before the mid 13th century, and even in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… or incomplete. The hides for three out of four manors are missing. Details for Elthorne Hundred are also missing … total of 191 hides given in the Summa (total 'B' below) is at variance with a figure of 211 hides in the list of hundred … details given for the half hundred of Mimms are defective. They are missing for Isleworth (Hounslow) and for Elthorne. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… abstract of the greater part of the information obtained at the inquiry. London is not included, which is surprising. … to the taking of evidence by the commissioners. Both are references, common enough in Domesday, to the testimony … manors may, however, be assigned to the hundreds in which they are found later. Draitone is proved by its connexion …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… III The social classes mentioned in the Middlesex Survey are francigene, Anglici, milites, villani, bordarii, cotarii, … of the west. There are no references to servientes or, at the other end of the scale, to coliberti (or burs). The … or francigene are listed among the tenants. As a class they defy definition. Round comments that, 'beyond the fact …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Edmonton, Enfield, and Tottenham in the Lea valley, at Stepney between the Thames and the Lea, from Ebury to … and is stated to yield 60 s. ( de feno lx solidi). There are many entries in Middlesex in which the number of ploughs … over nine manors. 97 The number of fishponds is uncertain. They are recorded on three manors: at Harefield (82) four …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… held only the one manor of Harmondsworth (48), assessed at 30 hides, and a tenement of one hide in Spelthorne Hundred … most of the documents emanating from Westminster Abbey are untrustworthy and the reliability of the traditions … the estates entered as his in this and other counties. 20 They may have been in the hands of his son Edwin who …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… items in the Survey have been numbered by the editor and are identified thus in the introduction. The numbering of … the king has 30 cottars 6 who render yearly 14 s. 10½ d. At Holeburne [Holborn] the king has 2 cottars who render … who were the men of the Bishop of London, held this land. They could not give or sell [it] without the bishop's …
Survey of London
… and architects whose activities have been described above are invariably of brick, the use of stone being restricted to … The internal floors are of timber, and there is evidence at Nos. 4452 Queen's Gate that there, at least, provision was … feet, may be either casements or sashes. In most cases they are given additional architectural pomp by the use of …
Survey of London
… for example, built more than 200 houses, William Douglas at least 108, (Sir) Charles Freake at least 91 and William … The role of the estate surveyors is difficult to assess. They did not stamp a clearly distinctive character on any of … and severely rectilinear. Today the mews at the back are at least as much favoured for residence as the now …