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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… about thirty-five prisoners, 52 there was a relaxation. Servants were allowed to be kept, visitors to be admitted, … of them stand condemned'. It was considered that too many servants and outside persons had access to the prisoners, and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in the 1360s. 8 A parker was recorded among the estate servants in 1345. 9 The other park, called Solewick, which is … agricultural services of tenants, it was worked by regular servants ( famuli), including a shepherd, a harrowman, a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… townsmen, several of whom employed apprentices or servants, and owned and sublet town property. Two master … slater for debt in 1579. 211 Gentry, Professionals, and Servants Up to 5 per cent of inhabitants during the period … own notes, featuring an engraving of a sheep. 220 Domestic servants, as in the 19th century, presumably comprised a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Fourteen per cent, mostly but not all women, were domestic servants in private houses or inns, and comparable numbers of … and the postmaster, besides large numbers of domestic servants and over forty laundresses or washerwomen. 103 Below … (blanket ind. 18001900). The next largest were domestic servants (13 per cent) and leather workers (12 per cent …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1319 a group of apparently non-local men assaulted his servants who were administering the market, seized his goods, … Further disruptions occurred during peace time. Royal servants seized goods from the bishop's manor house in 13001 … shaded through to wage-earners, apprentices, and domestic servants. From the late 17th or early 18th century there was …
A History of the County of Essex
… & Co. bankers by 1902. 33 In 1891 there were 103 domestic servants, including housekeepers, out of a recorded popu- …
A History of the County of Oxford
… small tithes and other dues from Godstow abbey and its servants, but had to acknowledge that the abbey itself was exempt, as were its servants, except for those with their own households in … have been paid by the mill. 30 The abbey's rights over its servants may have led to one of its chapels being treated as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the abbey, some certainly for the wages of the abbey's servants who included 7 ploughmen, 4 carters (3 at Godstow …
A History of the County of Oxford
… population of the village was swelled by some of the abbey servants. 94 As many as 144 people paid poll tax in … Godstow, which presumably employed a number of household servants as well as supplying work for the villagers. …