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A History of the County of Oxford
… officers, requiring all to swear the statutory oaths, and making future appointments of high stewards, recorders, and … 1580 the number of common councillors was fixed at 20, 17 making up a council which included perhaps a third of the … the portmoot. 99 He was responsible for serving summonses, making arrests, and maintaining the prison and punitive …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1727, assuring the duchess of continued support while making play of his imminent arrest for debt, and John Tasker, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Accounts (in D.C.R.O.) dated 1608 from Hugh Hoble for making and Snoock and Baskom for setting stone-mullioned …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… In 1870 it was owned by the Gloucestershire Paper Making Co. Ltd., and in 1876 by the trustees of James Randle, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… pottery and coins are thought to have been part of a salt-making industry. 1 Woolavington village forms a grid at the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… background a standing figure (the head missing) apparently making a discourse, perhaps this represents the Disputation …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Grand Junction canal passes through the parish. Lace-making employs some of the inhabitants. The living is a … about 600 acres. The inhabitants are partly employed in making lace. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in … and a powerful hydraulic press has been introduced for making leaden bullets by pressure, instead of casting them as …
The Environs of London
… two mast-ponds 52; a smith's shop, with several forges for making anchors; a mouldloft; storehouses of various kinds; … 400 yards in length, under the direction of a clerk, for making cables of all dimensions for the Navy. The great ship … warren is a foundery for brass canon; a laboratory 56 for making fireworks for the use of the Army and Navy; and a …