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Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Meathop and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham … Kellet, 5s. and Richard Burrow, 3s.; all of Witherslack, yeomen; Deed in Witherslack Vestry. 1740 Tobias Knipe conveys …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Economic history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, encompassing the three rural … and late 18th centuries called themselves husbandmen or yeomen, and a dozen or so farmers were still noted in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… economic life 1500 to 1800 ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its … century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it … over the period called themselves husbandmen or yeomen, and were presumably farmers working land outside the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most franchises seem to have …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after … that William de Mortein, who was several years High Sheriff of the Counties of Warewick and Leicester, and …
A Dictionary of London
… Wollewharf See Wool Quay. Wolsies Gate A water gate in the roparie, in parish of All Hallows the Less, of later time called Wolfes Lane, … of timber.) Secondly, that it was named after Thos. Wood Sheriff, 1491. But as shown above, the street received its …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and … probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the … Wombridge (nos. 11-13). Salop. News Letter, xxxiii. 13. Yeomen and Colliers in Telford, ed. B. Trinder and J. Cox …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … of Poyle, Surrey, and of Alvington Court, co. Gloucester, sheriff Surrey 1688, knighted 19 May, 1681, M.P. Haslemere …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. The details of the estate held by Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, in 1086 are not recorded. No teams were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 cassati of wooded land at Woodchester was made to the … in 1066 and had passed to the king by 1086 when Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, was the tenant. 46 That estate …