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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; eard] A term with several meanings, the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old … century yellow metal BUTTONs were popular with the poor, judging by the descriptions of runaway apprentices and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1:10000 a SP 74 NW, b SP 74 NE, c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary … 164; 12 (1977), 222). For Roman Road 1e, Watling Street, see Appendix. Medieval and Later The leg of a medieval grey …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is … had been acquired and in the early 19th century the overseers paid £4 a year to the lord of the manor as rent. 44 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a … the 20th century, was sold in 1987. Although Yarnton was a poor living, several medieval vicars were long-serving, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of … 39 were said by the vicar to be occupied by the 'labouring poor'. 79 From the late 19th century the major changes in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later … supported in 1797 by a biannual payment of 18 s. from the overseers and by voluntary subscriptions. The teacher was the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the … was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new cottages also'. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit … and were usually attended by c. 6 parishioners. 23 Two overseers of the poor were chosen annually by rota from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually … Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 218. For an acct. of Dashwood fam. see J. Townsend, Oxon. Dashwoods (Oxf. 1922). O.R.O., Dash. …