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Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 13, Edward III
… TO VOL. XIII. 333. HUMPHREY DE BOHUN, EARL OF HEREFORD AND ESSEX. [ The return of knights' fees &c. for the county of Kent has been recovered and added to the file immediately in front of the similar … Ospreng of the honor of Maundevill, held by William Pympe and John Tysted. Swynnefeld. One knight's fee, held by …
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
… Gyllour. Exon. quia non solvit. John Shawe died Feb. 12, and John North was elected Mayor Feb. 14, 29 Henry VIII. The year 1510 is omitted in the original, and this error is not rectified until 1543. …
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 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… irregular in shape, measured 3.5 km. from east to west and 1 km. from nsorth to south, the smaller was roughly oval, … and Four Forks, and on the east by a lane. 8 It lies on marl with pockets of gravel. 9 Aisholt village, named from … on the side of Hawkridge Hill until 1930 or later. 32 Marl was dug at Postridge. 33 There was some mining in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… was cultivated by 4 servi with 2 ploughs in both 1066 and 1086, and the only recorded livestock in 1086 were 6 cattle and 1 horse; there was wood for 12 swine, and 3 a. of meadow. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the reach of a high tide. The soil is a friable loam and marl, constantly melting down; and the sea threatens greater ravages: the present area is …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… patterns; farmsteads surrounded by closes between them, and church and manor house by the river Brue. ALFORD, formerly noted for … man's smallholding in Alford included six rother beasts. 7 Marl was used and withies were grown. 8 Common pasture for …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… All Saints' church The new church; clergy and lecturers THE NEW CHURCH. HISTORY. The act for pulling down and rebuilding the church of All Saints, in Newcastle upon … competition lay between Mr. David Stephenson of Newcastle, and Mr. Harrison of Lancaster. At length, the preference was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of York; containing, with the townships of Allerthorpe and Waplington, 199 inhabitants, of whom 154 are in the … Pocklington. The general surface of the parish is flat and well wooded. It consists of 1543 a. 1 r. 33 p., of which … pasture, 80 arable, and 50 woodland; the soil is loam and marl; the land is elevated, and the undulations of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a township, in the parish of Great Budworth, union and hundred of Northwich. S. division of the county of … chief residence here; it afterwards fell to the Leicesters and Shakerleys. The township comprises 2155 acres; the soil … the most part, is a sandy loam, having a wet sub-soil of marl and clay. A tram railway for the conveyance of coal from …