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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… but were, here as elsewhere, used to provide a stock which was lent to husbandmen and others to help them in starting or carrying on their business. Interest on the stock was charged, and two bondsmen were required to ensure … arranged on or about Plough Monday. Another form of stock consisted of cows which were hired out for the year at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 'mansion') and 118 acres of land, were worth £5 5 s., with stock worth £6 19 s. 8 d. It also possessed plate and … in Chapel Field, and 58 acres in Richey Field, to provide stock to set the poor to work. The proceeds from sales were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… all his property in the funds (£1,220 in Navy 5 per cent. stock), was for the benefit of disabled churchgoing poor, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… North, South, and West Wards. Rights of intercommoning of stock existed (i) on Norwood Common, with the tenants of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Upwell. In 1251 there was faldage worth 21 s. 7 d., and stock consisting of 24 cows and 2 bulls, 360 ewes and 240 … of the estate was excellent grazing. The net receipts on stock usually amounted to some £10 a year, and in the early … value of £13,550 10 s., including £2,980 mercantile stock in the port and the proceeds of the customs and excise. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… certain benefactions, 24 and the interest on 'town stock'. In the period between 24 August 1591 and 1 May 1592 … for the collection for the pore of Wisbich'. 26 The town stock consisted of the capital of well-to-do orphans invested … 258. Ibid. 247. W. Watson, Hist. Wisb. 164. The 'orphan stock' in 1594 amounted to £280 9 s. Some was lent out in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… highly enriched. Richard Melhuish, Esq., in 1799 gave 500 stock, the dividends arising from which are applied in aid of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bequests, together with part of Richard Ashcombe's 100 stock, were on loan to varied tradesmen, for whom they … were excluded from the investment of most other charity-stock in land at Eynsham, but by the early 18th century … funds to tradesmen, the town had accumulated some 417 of stock for charitable purposes, which a Charity Commission …
A History of the County of Oxford
… supplemented their income by small-scale arable farming or stock-rearing, either in closes outside the town or in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was demolished in 1888, to be replaced by a two-storeyed stock house; the sites's subsequent expansion is detailed … Farm Mill) rebuilt in the 1830s, continued in use as a stock house in the later 20th century. 47 The expanded site …