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Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke) BENSON The large and thriving village of Benson - by far the most populous settlement in Ewelme hundred - lies in the clay vale close to the River Thames. 1 Originating as an …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… Bibliography. [This list is far from exhaustive of the authorities from which information has been derived.] MSS. Records of the Corporation of London preserved at Guildhall: a. Letter … of Letter Books, A to L, 10 vols., 18991912. " London and the Kingdom, 3 vols., 18945. " Calendar of Wills proved in …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… Bibury BIBURY The Large Rural Parish of Bibury lies 10.5 km. north-east of Cirencester. The ancient parish, which included the hamlets of Arlington … a plasterer, a glazier, a tailor, a shoemaker, a saddler, and a surgeon lived there. 554 Among the more …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Ancient and historical monuments in the City of London Bishopsgate ward 5. BISHOPSGATE WARD. (Within and Without). Bishopsgate Ward includes the parishes of St. Botolph Bishopsgate, St. Ethelburga and St. Helen and parts of the parishes of St. Martin Outwich, All Hallows Lombard …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… blake; blak; blacke; bla'; bla; b'k] Black was perhaps the most used colour, whether it was produced in the form of a DYESTUFF or as a PIGMENT. As a pigment, there … a rare exception being the inventory of John Pattison, a saddler of Carlisle, which listed '18 black and brown …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… nail [borde nayle; borde naile; bord naylle; bord nayle] The OED suggests a SPIKE or large BRAD. Presumably, given its … nail down BOARD. However, Randle Holme included it among the nails that had heads [Holme (2000)], which a brad does … References: Holme (2000). Boars head [boars' head] The head of a wild BOAR, and by the late eighteenth century …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Bottisham Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 half the 10 hides and 20 ploughlands in the vill belonged to Walter Giffard's demesne. It was staffed … and 1-2 shoemakers, while there had been a tailor and a saddler until c. 1910. The Howletts ran a builders' business …
London Bridge
… Butchers Passage tolls Received of Laurence Awen, clerk of the house, for 16 ft. of oak timber at 2d. the foot, 2s. 8d., and for 52 ft. of oak and elm board 16d., … of elm timber, 3d., 7d. Received of Richard Bradbury, saddler, for the income of a tenement in Newgate market, late …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… Brimpsfield Brimpsfield The rural parish of Brimpsfield lies above the Cotswold escarpment 10 km. south of Cheltenham. … century 227 and in 1977 the village retained a shop and a saddler. At Wood House, where a wood turner carried on his …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Buck cloth - Buckwheat Buck cloth The term refers to a TEXTILE. In the early-modern period, it was almost certainly a printers' error for the LINEN CLOTH called BUSK CLOTH. It makes a single …