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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… apples left after the gathering of the main crop. This was done with 'squailers' (throwing sticks). Other pastimes were …
A History of the County of Bedford
… at Potton in 1783, when damage estimated at £25,000 was done. 56 In 1227 Henry Braybrook, lord of Potton manor, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for 173241 and 17601817. The courts, at which little was done except to collect quitrents, were held each summer until …
A History of the County of Rutland
… the present sill level. There is no plinth. When this was done is uncertain; the present doorway is modern, but it may …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… built at the north end overlooking the river. The work was done by Thomas, Edward, and Richard Woodward, masons of … to exercise the right to present as his predecessor had done. 256 The rectory, valued at 8 13 s. 4 d. in 1291 257 and … West began the rebuilding of the church. The work was done by Edward Woodward of Chipping Campden, and the result …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… at the hamlet of Looseley Row, and sequin and bead-work is done by women at Lacey Green. Water-cress beds exist near the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… corresponding to the 15th-century period, when so much was done to the building. Portions of the older scheme only were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… two were to reap on one boon day. All these services were done at the lord's cost. 436 On Margery de Bruys's manor at … and two years later he was again presented for not having done so. 501 No 17th-century maps have survived, but there … by the closure of the footpath to Shirburn. This was done in the interest of the farmers, who feared that if the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and Nicholas Wootton and nearly all later owners have done so. 272 Its name suggests that Hilldrop manor house was … 393 Most of the work on the house had presumably been done by then, but the fittings inside may not have been … century, and in the 1890s work similar to Osmond's was done at the Jubilee Royal Foundry. The Newtown foundry …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… tower was taken down and rebuilt, the work being chiefly done by the young monks. 53 Earl Ailwin, the founder, … of King Stephen. 59 It took long to repair the damage done by the earl's followers, but probably the rebuilding of … monks continued to press for compensation for the damage done by Mandeville and at length in 1163, by the intervention …