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A History of the County of Somerset
… 93 sheep.' There are 3 mills paying 25 shillings, and a market ( mercatum) paying 46 shillings and 8 pence. There are … of moor ( mora). In this manor are 56 burgesses with a market paying 60 shillings 'in the king's ferm.' In … [Ilchester] are 107 burgesses paying 20 shillings. A market with its attached members ( appenditiis) pays 11 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 4 was intended to encourage the industry in corporate and market-towns to limit the number of looms and apprentices who … about it. Weavers living in corporate, borough, or market towns were permitted to enrol in their fellowships all … owing to the competition of 'foreigners' in its market. 9 In 1614 it was remodelled and divided into three …
A History of the County of Sussex
… but a few built new residences. 66 The parish became a market-gardening centre at about the same period, 67 and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… population of 7578. Thame (St. Mary) THAME ( St. Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the … of one long and spacious street, with a convenient market-place in the centre, over which is the town-hall, a … but the inhabitants are chiefly employed in husbandry. The market, which is of great antiquity, is on Tuesday, and is …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in the 20th century was mainly due to the growth of market gardening; 9½ a. of market gardens were returned in 1875, and in 1895 there were 6 market gardeners. In 1905 there were returned 6½ a. under …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The chapel used was probably the building in the Cattle Market at the east end of Middle Row (now the offices of … Wesleyans, and Baptists respectively. 411 The Market House School, whose early history has been described … in a previous volume, 412 was held in a room over the market-house, rented from the Earl of Abingdon for 2 a year. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the enforcement of sanitary rules about the streets and market-place. At the October court for 1649 nineteen jurors … by the courts that no stalls or booths should be placed on Market Hill, but only on the south-west side beginning from … purpose. They spent 37 13 s. 3 d. in 1550 on paving the market-place round the market cross and in making a new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Thame Topography, manors and estates THAME As an ancient market-town on the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire border, … of only 14 miles from the city and its importance as a market meant that both royalist and parliamentary forces were … forced to close for a time and the ordinary life of the market was interrupted. 16 Early in 1643 attempts were made …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the east of old Thame. Precisely when New Thame and its market were founded is uncertain, but all the evidence points … and later, the object being to increase profits from market dues and courts and raise the value of rents by … of the abbey would both have encouraged the growth of the market, though as the Cistercians were exempt from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dwellings of charm and distinction in the villages, and a market town with a notable High Street. The creation of …