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The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… tenant harrows wheat four days, mows two days, and leads hay one day with one wain, and the same service in … half a chalder of wheat, and carries one wain load of wood (wodlade) et facet summagia; and such are the rents and … work in a year, and works at the autumn tillage and in hay-harvest. Walter de Haleton is farmer of the demesne, with …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… pays a modus to the Rector of Haughton, for corn and hay, of 1 l. 13 s. 4 d.: all other small tithes are paid in …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… of Heghyngtonshire mow the Bishop's meadows, and load the hay and make the fence (clausuram) of the Bishop's … with delicate tracery: round the mouldings is cut in wood in the Gothic letter, Drate p'a'i'b's Al . . . dri … townships of Heighington and School-Aycliffe pay tithe of hay and small tithes to the Vicar in kind. Redworth pays …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… fifty spinning-wheels in a summer's afternoon in the Nymph Hay, and yet after all the imagery comes home to the heart of … there was buried in the parish church of Catteriek. See Wood's Athen, Edit. Bliss, vol. III.; Burn and Nicolson, vol. …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… on the North, Jarrow is a romancy spot, where, as Anthony Wood hath it, a man may admirably refresh himself with a … passages of the Old and New Testament: Isaac carrying the wood for his own sacrifice; and next the Saviour bearing his … for coal-tar. Several large grindstone wharfs. Mr. Wood's pottery for common brown earthen-ware, and Atkinson …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… mow the whole of the meadows, and win and lead the hay, and bring the hogs from the forest 34; and whilst they … calves' pulleyne, kocks and hennes, piggs, lync, hemp, hay, and all petty and prediall tithes; with the landes, … by soft green inclosures, variegated with scattered wood-lands, which track the course of the Browney and Smalhop …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… in ambush, armed and provided with horse, in a certain wood which lay on the road of the Bishop and his retinue 2, sent certain knights and esquires out of the same wood, who seized the Bishop, his clerks, domestics, and with … one shilling and four pence per ann. only for tithe of hay. The Rector receives seven shillings per ann. for seven …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… till it is abruptly broken below Cleves-cross and Ferry-wood by the marshy valley, which has the source of the North … township of Merrington, and to all small tithes, excepting hay, in Ferryhill, Hett, and Chilton. Ferryhill pays a modus of 10 s. 6 d. for hay; Hett a modus of 8 s.; and Chilton 19 s. for hay 27. …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… farms; and a moiety of a modus of 16 s. in lieu of the hay and small tithes of Forster-house, or West Hartburn farm; … whilst the perpetrators found a safe refuge in Dinsdale-wood 68. The foundations of the old Bridge may be still … have occasionally told his beads to advantage in Dinsdale-wood. See Dinsdale. Sir Thomas Surteys settled on his son's …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… that the unhousel'd spirit of Roger Skelton, whom in the hay-field the good Hilton ghosted, took the liberty of … of great Usworth, and the manor of Bedyk, except Bedyk-wood. Rot. Nevill a 5. (19) See the lamentable Conquestus of … sett his horse in a place callid y e ald kirke to y e hay mowe, filing y e sam place and destroying hay agayns y e …