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A History of the County of Oxford
… by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at … and 1835 both overseers were women. 24 The parish paid for dinners after the Michaelmas and Easter vestry meetings. … even when total expenditure was falling; in 1803, for example, expenditure of £1 10 s. per person was notably …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… jambs and two-centred arch; the reveals have sockets for a draw-bar. In the W. wall is a 14th-century window of … the road, 60 yards S.E. of (26), is largely modern except for the N. block, which is of 16th-century date. The upper …
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 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… In the present century the stone has been dug only for ballast. Enclosure was in 1778 (NRO, plan 57). In 1881 a … who was to make good the structure for 105 and to provide pews and scats for 50. In the church wardens' accounts for … at the bases of the E. and side walls. Windows have square heads and are of uncertain date. In the W. wall of the S. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk … and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field lay apparently … and east of the village. There was common downland pasture for sheep in the north and south corners of the parish, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… and shields-of-arms( a) a fesse between three boars' heads with three molets on the fesse, perhaps for Wyat of Tewkesbury; ( b) Edward the Confessor, ( c) …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… altered in pitch, that on the N. probably to provide space for the still existing paintings over the arcade; the two … on either side the archway are niches with bowed trefoiled heads, enriched with crockets and finials and a moulded and … bench-ends with square tops incorporated in modern pews, early 16th-century. Sedilia (Plate 141): In N. chapelin …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (formerly 39 fit. by 20 ft.) has been demolished except for the 15th-century S. arcade (Plate 14) of three bays with … Floor-slab: In transepton E. wall, two ornamental cross-heads in circles with the sunk outlines of two human heads below, rest defaced, 13th or early 14th-century. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Incorporated Society, a like sum from the Commissioners for Building Churches, and 400 from the Ripon Diocesan … of the Rector of Guiseley. The tithes have been commuted for 111. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Association Methodists. Yealand-Conyers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… evidently surrendered certain parochial rights in return for a pension 3 but was still claiming Yelford as a dependent … That residual dependency probably concerned burial rights, for, although Yelford was not named when the mother church … in 1291 at £2, and in 1341 at only 24 s. after allowance for the exempt glebe and hay tithe. 16 In 1535 the net value …