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The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… suppression of the monasteries must have been a period of great pressure at the Court of Augmentations. The amount of … in connexion with each monastery must have been very great and the mass of property to be sold stupendous; yet … aforesaid as is before mentioned by us prepared on the western side of the same church shall be for the future …
Old and New London
… Agar Town and the Midland Railway CHAPTER XXVIII. AGAR TOWN, AND THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. … have already given some details about the London and North-Western line in our account of Euston Square, so our … the "midland" counties. We have spoken above of the great clearance of houses which was effected in this locality …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to all the said purposes, either outward or inward, but a great deal weaker [Culpeper (1653, new ed. n.d.)]. OED … applied in other forms 'either outward or inward, but a great deal weaker' [Culpeper (1653, new ed. n.d.)]. Not found …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… shoulder-draining spade and scoop have been used with great success.' 19 In clearing the land also various methods … three oxen only are used.' 25 Calves were raised in the western parts of the county, but not to any great extent. … in the prices of farm produce. On the other hand, high railway rates do not constitute a grievance, and 'land in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1536-40 when the monasteries were dissolved and their great landed estates confiscated, in the 1870s when cereal … would in due course have to reverse direction. In the western half of England dramatically increased yields from … Britain, lxvi), 246; cf. W. W. Watts, Salop.: Geog. of the Co. (Shrews. 1919), 17; W. J. Slack, 'Hist. Agric. and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Nuneham, Forest Hill, Kidlington, Chiselhampton, Sandford, Great Haseley, &c. 1. The red land has for the last century … Heavy clay soils are still summer-fallowed to about as great an extent as they were in the middle of the nineteenth … transport, and it is to be regretted that easy and cheap railway facilities, whilst benefiting agriculturists in many …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Chalk Country of south Wiltshire formed the centre of a great region of sheep-and-corn husbandry. In the extreme … there was a fringe of the Cotswold Country, another great district of sheep-and-corn farming. Still a further … the Cheese Country were maintained by imports from north-western England. Cheese was made chiefly from spring and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to make changes, instead of caution towards new ideas, too great a readiness to experiment without enough forethought … 89 separate parcels of land scattered throughout the six great fields, that is, on an average, in pieces of less than … change has been going on, no new manufactures, except the railway work at Swindon, have been started in Wiltshire to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… seventies came to be regarded, as do most times before any great change, as a period of great prosperity. Agricultural … 1868 many north Wiltshire dairy farms which were close to railway stations, and had no difficult or expensive local … in Chalk Wiltshire and in the small fringe along the north-western boundary of Cornbrash land, a Wiltshire extension of …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… why they maye not practize as well as the Doctors, with a great many other reprochfull speeches, the particular of this …