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Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… prelates and ecclesiastical persons, may have leisure for their divine office, and daily serve Almighty God, the … than to controvert or raise plea anent them. Wherefor, and for the singular devotion which we bear towards the holy and … on goods and merchandise, to wit, wool, skins, hides, cloth, bread, fish, and other things, as well not named as …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Holborn, 179199. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1784 for 600 of which 400 accounted for utensils, stock and goods; on 5 February 1791 with William Rayment for 1,400, 1,000 on utensils and stock; and alone on 27 June …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chapel is a small structure. The tithes have been commuted for 54. Yalding (St. Peter and St. Paul) YALDING ( St. Peter … parish is called Twyford bridge. The river is navigable for barges, by which a considerable traffic in timber, corn, and coal, is carried on. A fair for cattle is held on October 15th. The living is a vicarage, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was 36 INCH or 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in all … and consisted of 16½ FOOT. OED earliest date of use: 1377 for the yard of t3 FOOT, 900 for the yard of 16½ FOOT Only … wide; yard-wide] A term applied to the width of a piece of cloth. Until the invention of the 'Flying Shuttle' by John …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Northants. Archaeol., 10 (1975), 164; 12 (1977), 222). For Roman Road 1e, Watling Street, see Appendix. Medieval and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to … received £8 a year, and the remaining £7 was to be used for educational purposes. Fletcher further provided that if … Vaughan Thomas and the churchwardens drew up a schedule for the better management of the distributions. The new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been … of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on clothes for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were consulted without success. 45 The tithe awards for Begbroke (1844) and Yarnton (1845) settled the … Mead Lane remained an alternative to the Woodstock road for light traffic to Oxford. 64 Church Lane was referred to … 34 Yarnton was referred to in 1931 as a 'quiet old village stretching along a secondary road ... very little altered …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at … whole of the remainder moorland, affording rough pasturage for sheep and a few cattle. The surface is hilly and … rich beds of shell-marl, which is used as manure for the lands. Numerous springs of excellent water afford an …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Culm is found in some parts of it, but it is worked only for home consumption and the supply of the immediate … of the Baron de Rutzen: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of 70, and the glebe comprises 50 acres. … is uncertain, depending upon the fluctuating demand for the produce. This township, and certain parts of the …