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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Social and Cultural Activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES There were four alehouses in 1552, 14 … interest to weavers and other craftsmen, especially shoemakers, 66 was that of radical politics and religion. …
Survey of London
… Between Poplar High Street and East India Dock Road Newby Place, Mountague Place and Bazely Street (west side) Newby Place, Mountague Place and Bazely Street (West Side) Newby Place Newby Place was …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… BEVERLEY, 1700–1835 Economy 'This town is well built, and very seemly; rich, and well populated', reported a … and pedlars were prosecuted for trading when unfree and shoemakers were frequently indicted for that offence. Action … 1715 and 1734, 67 in 1774, 73 in 1802, and 96 in 1830. Shoemaking was the largest craft in most pre-industrial towns …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… elections played a large part in the economic and social life of Beverley throughout the period. The right … the Reform Act which disfranchised the nonresident voters and gave the vote to £10 householders, of whom there were … the votes of the aldermen and Tufnell most of those of the shoemakers and labourers. 66 At the general election in 1780 …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… of the corporation, comprising the mayor, 12 aldermen, and 13 capital burgesses, did, however, alter significantly. … aldermen electing the members of their own bench for life, and also nominating the 26 candidates for election as capital … During the period 17001828 only 73 aldermen were appointed and accepted office and they were increasingly drawn from the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… ancient parish, which included the hamlets of Arlington and Ablington and the chapelry and village of Winson, was irregular in shape with an area of …
A History of the County of Essex
… HISTORY In the Middle Ages the separate manors of Great and Little Birch occupied the main part of the parish and small areas of neighbouring parishes. William a Birches … been outworkers for London firms. Six people worked in shoemaking, and there were 5 teachers, a house painter, a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture In 1086 there were 10 servi and ancille and 4 ploughs on the demesne of the manor of Bisley. 18 In … inhabitants of the parish included 5 tailors, 5 masons, 3 shoemakers, 3 carpenters, and 2 smiths. 30 The industrialized …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons In the mid 13th century Black Bourton had two unnamed fields. 1 Probably in the 16th century and certainly by the 18th there were four: Westbrook field, adjoining Alvescot west and south of Black Bourton village; East and West Upper or …
A Dictionary of London
… School Founded in 1716 by Peter Joy, for 40 boys and 30 girls (Dodsley, 1761). Blackfriars Stairs At the … Friars Preachers (Cal. Close R. Ed. I. 1288-96, p. 373) and in the description of the house and precinct as it stood at the death of Thomas Cawardine, 2 …