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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… the walls of the W. end of the nave and tower with straw and lead in 1431, and another in the same year for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1818 the girls of the parish were taught knitting and straw plaiting at the expense of the lady of the manor. Some …
Old and New London
… the command of their principal leaders, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, and afterwards separated into three parties; one of … by William Walworth, Lord Mayor of London; and Jack Straw, with many others, was beheaded. Again, when Richard …
Survey of London
… stalls for 22 horses, two loose boxes, harness room, a straw-shed and a manure pit (fig. 213). Built by James …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Some Combe tenants were obliged to provide a truss of straw when the king visited Woodstock, and the lord of Combe …
Old and New London
… behind some of the houses there were cribs littered with straw, where the wretched might sleep for threepence. In one …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the manufacture of pillow-lace, and in preparing straw-bonnet plat. In the reign of Edward II., the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… TICK or BOLSTERING, and the stuffing of FEATHERS, FLOCKS, STRAW or CHAFF. It is this two-part composition that could … unfilled Found stuffed with CHAFF, FEATHERS, FLOCKS, STRAW, WOOL Found made of BROWN - TICK, FLANDERS - TICKING, …
A History of the County of Essex
… for in that year 10 s. was paid by the overseer for 'straw at the allmnshouse'. By 1783 the poorhouse was situated …
A New History of London
… streets: and that every load of hay should pay 6 d, and of straw 2 d. The same statute also impowered the city to … ways at once, fell upon the Star-inn then full of hay and straw; in Thames-street it found magazines of all kinds of …