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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… open corn fields. The beasts and horses were either in the yard or the home closes, or tethered or attended by a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… additions to the potash. Bones (16 bushels to the acre) or yard manure were sometimes added, although the difficulty of … in stalls between November and April become common, nor yard manure surpass that made in the south. Too often it was … artificial manures, but not on heavy land covered with yard manure, nor with beans. 280 Drills were often hired out …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of 2s 6d (NARROW - ELL) to 5s (BROAD - ELL) and 3s 8d the YARD. OED earliest date of use: 1649 as an adjective denoting … LINING, SCARF, TIPPET, WHISK Found in units of ELL, PIECE, YARD Found imported from Holland Found rated by the LB, PIECE … in the OED Found described as BROAD Found in units of YARD Found rated by the ELL and in various widths See also …
A Dictionary of London
… (Elmes, 1831). " Alderman Stairs" (O.S.). " Person's Yard " (Strype, ed. 1720). Name derived, as Elmes …
Survey of London
… lease of part of the eastward site as a stable yard. 14 As an avid book-collector Sunderland was concerned … 12 By July 1772 the kitchen block on the east of the court-yard was covered in and the stable block on the other side … her to open a door and window into their garden from the yard of a house in Sackville Street. 57 Mrs. Damer is said to …
Survey of London
… 130 Unusually, the working (all 'wrought by the axe') and the polishing (all by hand) was done on the site …