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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Charters of incorporation CHARTERS OF INCORPORATION Borough of Wisbech … years, during which time the building of the custom house, corn exchange, and cattle market severely taxed the resources … to buy up a supply of wheat against the coming scarcity (in July) and gave £105 (September) to a fund for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene about 12 miles from its present outfall, 94 miles north of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a … and implement shops; and the cattle market and the former corn exchange are in the immediate vicinity. A third market, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… occurs c. 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the monastery of Ely. 54 In 1086 Wisbech was held by the abbot, and rated … at which the customary tenants were obliged to grind their corn, and a newly constructed windmill. South-west, from the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is held by prescription. In 1657 John Thurloe, as lord of the manor, was granted a fortnightly market at Wisbech by letters patent. 73 In the 1840's Wisbech was one of the largest if not actually the largest corn market in the country. In 1844-5 250,000 quarters were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along … diverted back again soon afterwards by the blocking of the Creek. 3 No attempt seems to have been made to reopen … and other vessels of 3 to 12 tons. They were used for the corn and coal trade by 7 owners employing 12 watermen. 5 In …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de … Pearsone of Witherslacke, yeoman, for 56 all the tithe corn, grain and hay growing or to grow hereafter on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 … Bishop of Worcester. The tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1813; the glebe altogether comprises about 1100 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in … or keeping accounts. Two houses on the site of No. 45 Corn Street, also owned by the town in 1613, were similarly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, encompassing the three rural … with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 the manor was valued at just … left hops and fruit from his orchard as well as cattle and corn on a Somerset farm, while the wealthy tanner Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 32 s. 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at … bishop invested in several new or expanded mills both for corn-milling and for fulling; an unspecified new mill at …