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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… worke in Stockton and in the confines there about and send or bringe my wyfe the best releefe I am able, and now the … humbly crave your good ayed and helpe in this my distress or else my poore wyfe and child are like to perrish without … a warrent in this case in regard of the poore orphans or else they are like to perish and unles they be charitable …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… and the most part of the rest upon matters of small or noe value, haveing nothing but the bare allowance of a … saide John Brayne and order him to breade up the infant or otherwise to pay her such summes of moneyes as to youre … fayre speeches and faithfull promises of marriage for iii or iiii yeares past by one William Colles of Salwarpe tayler, …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… pray for worships good and happy prosperity. to provide or coram [L. J?] The neighbours and tenants of the lord of … and the said Sparry [illegible] to kill the peticioner or any of his sonnes [illegible] presente daye he did lay way … Frogmorton with her husband William Ewens sixteene yeares or theraboutes and her husband being slayne under a rick of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… (allways lycensed) to entertaine straingers both horseman or footeman; hee keepeth good orders in his house observinge … order of sessions th that [illegible] before any landlord or other p inhabitante of any parishe receave any person or persons into the a nother parish that a nother parish into …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… being destitude of moneys to beare my chardges to London, (or acquaintance in theise parts to borrow of,) fame, of your … Cromwell nor that he hath ever leeved in the West Indies or that he landed in Wales, but this I finde that he hath … and having never lived out of it, being now aged 55 yeares or thereabotes, is utterly destitute of a dwelling house for …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the said tything is a member and thereunto belongeth, or to order us the hundred money as formerly, or as Parshore by some adjacent parishes to help us, and ease … and inhabitantes of both parishes refuse to entertaine him or imploy him in that small matter of work that he is able to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… that lyes in the county of Worcester (but whether with or without licence wee know not) and that they severally … to suits quarrells fightings breakings of the Kings peace or any disturbance whatsoever butt lives like an honest and … the said Henry Poole was ever concerned in any quarrells or disturbances of the Kings majesties peace till lately …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… three car. The land being then sufficient for eight plows or eight car. 1 There afterwards Roger de Busli (whose see … one car. The land two car. There afterwards Roger the man (or tenant) of Roger de Busli had one car. and four sochm. on two bov. of this land, and one bord. with one plow or one car. There were two acres of meadow, pasture wood six …
A History of the County of Essex
… sold land in Wormingford. 77 In 1778 there were nine or ten substantial farmers and most of the rest of the … a 4-course rotation was practised of (1) wheat, barley, or oats, (2) clover or trefoil, (3) wheat, and (4) fallow with or without …
A History of the County of Essex
… rise to two stories of dragons, 'worm' meaning serpent or dragon. The first, apparently unsubstantiated, is that a … Wormingford watermill on the Suffolk side. Wormingford lock was repaired in 1793 and 1794 after a great flood, and … was levied on 39 households in 1662, six of them having 6 or more hearths; 45 households were recorded in 1671, of …