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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… it; used for cutting or slicing away the surface of WOOD. It was an early tool serving something of the same … used with percussion, to cut or slice away the surface of WOOD [Tomlinson (1854)]. For hollowing out the shaped seat of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish comprises 942 acres, whereof 70 are under wood. Here is one of those land springs very common in the … by admeasurement 3635 acres, 500 of which are under wood or uncultivated. The village is situated at the foot of … to Dover, and comprises 1815 acres, of which 189 are in wood. The living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of …
A Dictionary of London
… derivation. Addle Street West out of Aldermanbury to Wood Street at No.43 and to Silver Street (P.O. Directory). …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
… of former laws for the preservation of timber; no wood to be used as firewood that could be used as timber; no … With note from Cade, recommending special care of the wood. [ Ibid., No. 32*.] Prefixing, i. Warrant from Lord … take speedy order for reformation of abuses in the sale of wood coal, in London and Westminster and the neighbourhood, …
The Grey Friars of London
… The Goldsmiths' quarter was close to the convent, in Wood Street, and Guthron Lane. The offices of the Prerogative …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… ports. [15 pages, Vol. IX., No. 1 c.] Mar. 14. Paris. Ja. Wood to Sir Edw. Nicholas, Beauvais. I received yours of the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… of horse 2 0 Samuel English lieutenants of horse Charles Wood, cornet of horse 1 6 John Corbett, ensign of foot 1 6 …
Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London
… 8 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture and 12 acres of wood in Kilborne in co. Middlesex, now or late in the tenure … 80 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture and 300 acres of wood in Stoneley, lately purchased by the said Thomas Leigh … 12 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture and 6 acres of wood in Stoneley lately purchased by the said Thomas Leigh of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (SP 940865), N.N.W. of the village, within Old Dry Hills Wood, on Boulder Clay at 86 m. above OD. According to local … Roman pottery has been discovered in some quantity in the wood. *c(16) Roman Settlement (SP 913835), in the extreme … in 1328 to enclose, empark and hold in fee simple his wood of Lytelhawe by Lyveden. Nothing is known of its later …
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 4, Edward I
… Brusiemor, and in a way called Loxeweye, an alder wood called Holleye, a grove called Nethersned, an … upon the hill of Aledone and at Wygelesmore, 1 a. fir wood, a custom called ‘horderyeld,’ divers works and customs, …