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Magna Britannia
… Additions and corrections ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. GENERAL HISTORY. P. ix. It is very … up. Prisoners are sometimes committed to it from the north and north-east parts of the county; and the prisoners from …
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… officinalis, or female agaric, growing on larch trees and used in medicine as a cathartic and emetic. Polyporus fomentarius and igniarius, Male agaric, was likewise used in medicine but …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… climate is equable, the July isotherm being 64 degrees, and that of January 40 degrees, while the mean of the whole … year is 50 degrees on the higher ground north of London, and 51 degrees in the Thames Valley. Rainfall varies much … parts of the county are much better wooded than others, and the whole north is much more hilly than the south. The …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… pure white variety of the latter used for vases, ornaments and busts. It appears also to have been used for other … only twice in the Dictionary Archive, once along with some brewing equipment in the kitchen [Inventories (1574)]. The … ale-yeast] A YEAST that was either produced in the brewing of ALE or suitable for making ale OED earliest date …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Regis in 1935, 1 occupied some 878 acres to the south and west of the river Tove about nine miles south of Northampton and three miles from Towcester. The parish was separated from … with Paulerspury ran through fields; while to the south and east the boundary with Grafton was represented partly by …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an area of 1,356 ha. (3,350 a.) 1 and was irregular in shape with the boundaries marked by … a customary nature, including aid, pannage, and a toll on brewing. Of the customary tenants 26 each held a yardland, …
A History of the County of London
… or at one time the Jews spread beyond the Jewry, and it is possible to give this interpretation to an order of … was founded for a master, two priests, a schoolmaster, and twelve poor men, 2 but there appears to have been no … had a bell attached to it by a proctor of St. Anthony's, and was then free of the street to pick up what it could. As …
A Dictionary of London
… de Kendale at his death granted to Sir William Croyser and others a cellar with one shop and houses built over one part of the cellar next the church … the other part of the cellar being under the church, and also the reversion of one-third of the cellar now held in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the Souls' ( Collegium animarum), was planned, built, and endowed by Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury … charter was granted by Henry VI on 20 May 1438, 2 and at the archbishop's request the king accepted the title … the diversion of Dr. Clarke's generosity, schemes were brewing for new buildings on the site he had originally …