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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… mirabilis Aqua [aqu; aq] Aqua is the Latin term for water, and it was used in the early-modern period almost entirely as … with only sufficient water to prevent the product burning, and did not keep well. The latter, called 'Aquae stillatitiae … Latin names were usually measured by weight in units of LB and OZ, and so they are readily identifiable. By contrast, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Aqua naphae - Aquatint Aqua naphae [aq. naphae] A rare and obsolete name for ORANGE FLOWER WATER, used according to … of the peony was effective against the 'falling sickness' and for 'such as in their sleep are troubled with … the College of Physicians thought little of this view and declared that 'no one at this time expects any such …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1 Its two ancient parishes have long been united and still longer associated. The manors were owned and assessed for tax together in 1066, 2 passed to one Norman overlord, and were reunited in the ownership of the Hospitallers in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Aston and Cote Introduction ASTON AND COTE ASTON AND COTE township (2,997 a.) adjoined the parish boundary on …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… PARISH, which lies east of the Fosse way between Ilchester and Shepton Mallet, comprises the village of Babcary to the … partly encircled by the river Cary, the hamlets of Higher and Lower Foddington on low hills to the east, Steart on the flatter ground to the south, and several farmsteads. The river Cary forms most of the …
The Rulers of London 1660-1689
… Som, m Jane, da of John Temple of Burton Dassett, Warw, and -, Bucks, esq, mar (A) 1657, at St Andrew Undershaft, … Mary, da of Richard Leigh of - Warw (6) Goldsmith, banker, and State financier to Cromwell and Charles II (7) He had £295,995 involved in Stop of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. AGRICULTURE. In … of a large unitary estate which cut across later field and township boundaries, 38 but by the 14th century and probably much earlier Bampton and Weald each had their …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Introduction BAMPTON AND WEALD THE townships of Bampton and Weald, together c. … MS. d.d. Par. Bampton b 10, f. 34v.; C. Creighton, Hist. Epidemics in Britain, ii (1894), 170. O.R.O. MSS. d.d. Par. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. MANOR COURTS. From 1248 William de Valence, as lord of the manor and hundred of Bampton, claimed return of writs, assize of bread and ale, gallows, pillory, and tumbrel, and pleas of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… beyond the Saltway, were the fields of Wickham (962 a.) and in the north the fields of Hardwick (572 a.). The rest of … systems: that of Neithrop (1,398 a.) north of the town and the Broughton road, and that of Calthorpe (584 a.) to the south. 1 Because of …