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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech was one of the largest if not actually the largest corn market in the country. In 1844-5 250,000 quarters were … Wisbech ranked second only to Wakefield among the English corn markets. 75 There are now weekly markets for cattle on … which the arches were originally open, was intended for a corn exchange. It was, however, little used for this purpose, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and other vessels of 3 to 12 tons. They were used for the corn and coal trade by 7 owners employing 12 watermen. 5 In … 1909. The exports in the early 19th century were mainly corn and rape-seed. Coal was imported and, from 1824, timber. … In the period of high farming Wisbech was the biggest corn-shipping port in the country. A high level of 283,094 …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Pearsone of Witherslacke, yeoman, for 56 all the tithe corn, grain and hay growing or to grow hereafter on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bishop of Worcester. The tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1813; the glebe altogether comprises about 1100 … and vicarial tithes have been commuted for 78. 13.; the corn tithes belong to the perpetual curacy of Lango, and have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or keeping accounts. Two houses on the site of No. 45 Corn Street, also owned by the town in 1613, were similarly … and the clothier Andrew Holloway (d. 1688) six houses on Corn Street, while John Walter and his sister Elizabeth West … gifts were used by the town to buy additional houses on Corn Street and at Church Green, all of them (though not the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… left hops and fruit from his orchard as well as cattle and corn on a Somerset farm, while the wealthy tanner Thomas … with goods (including his own loom) worth 31, left hay, corn, pigs, and 62 sheep in 1621, while a small clothier in … seem to have left crops or livestock, and the small Corn Street plots on which weavers' cottages were built in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bishop invested in several new or expanded mills both for corn-milling and for fulling; an unspecified new mill at … 6 the same rent which by mid century was owed for two corn mills and a fulling mill at Woodford. 7 Many … two men for the bishop's lifetime again included only two corn mills at Woodford. 11 After the Black Death the two life …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Burford parish), owned wool houses and weaving shops on Corn Street (on the later Swan Laundry site), and employed … in 1766 was averted only after farmers lowered corn prices, 141 and in 1784 a 'fracas' between the Blanket … worth 33, agricultural produce, and property in Corn Street and West End. 198 Prominent 18th-century mercers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… accused of forestalling it by buying barley at Asthall. 27 Corn, butter, meat, fruit, cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep … closed in 1963. 31 The original weekly market, chiefly for corn after 1839 and still in the 1930s, had fifteen … Church Green: there is no evidence of an early market on Corn Street, whose name derives from quarries at its western …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were employed presumably at the bishop's quarries near Corn Street and elsewhere, which in the 13th and 14th … accounts for 12234 recorded rents from fulling and corn mills at Waleys (now Farm) Mill just south of the … Roger Hering, who jointly held Waleys and Woodford corn and fulling mills in the 1270s. 57 Surnames suggest the …