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A History of the County of Berkshire
… Steward's room, servants' hall, &c. The beer cellar and wine cellar. State apartments. The guardroom are all in a …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… November 1205. 33 There are records of the provisions and wine brought by boat to the castle for the king's use, and a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Village The name Winshill is Old English and means Wine's hill. 8 If there was not already a settlement in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of export for wheat in the kingdom. The chief imports are wine, deals, and coal. The navigation of the river above the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1852 by Thomas Peatling of Wisbech (d. 1881), brewer and wine merchant. It embodies several interesting features of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… more elaborate. 93 In 1671 £2 13 s. 6 d. was spent on wine and 3 s. 10 d. on beer, as well as 37 s. 6 d. for … at a maximum cost of £8, and in 1757 the provision of wine was limited to 25 gallons. 96 The free distribution of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… horses could not eat the hay, and I could not drink the wine'. 43 Cobbett, who 'speechified' to about 220 people in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the town for 2 years. William Gunn ( fl. 1628) of London, wine-porter: by lifetime gift before 1628, 10 to be lent …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the premises, as did other tradesmen occasionally, 168 but wine was presumably imported from London or elsewhere: in the … ironmonger supplied a Witney tavern-keeper with Gascon wine, 169 and a London wine merchant owned property in Witney in the 1760s. 170 By …
A History of the County of Oxford
… imported from Southampton in the 1460s and 1470s included wine and oysters, 46 and by the 1480s the town had attracted … imported 58 balets of woad, together with alum, madder, wine, and oil: that year Witney ranked sixth among towns …