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A History of the County of Warwick
… from the city's position as a market centre. Two major long-distance roads through Coventry are shown on the Gough … 8 The road from London to north Wales was much used by long-distance traffic by the late 16th century, and almost certainly long before. 9 It was marked on a French Guide de Chemins in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… a craft guild by royal licence, but the licence was issued long after the guild had become an organised body. Hill Mill, … 1363, for example, a draper was accused of selling over a long period cloth which had not been sealed for aulnage, of … and allowed country bakers to sell in Coventry so long as their bread was of good weight and so long as they …
A History of the County of Warwick
… in demesne. Its woodland was large, being two leagues long and two broad, and it had a mill worth 3 s. The value of … 14th century the earl's men claimed that they had for long bought and sold goods daily in Earl Street. 16 Before … of the 14th century, 45 and in this period, too, the long-standing rivalry between the two halves was settled. In …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the trade. It was agreed that any man might dye in woad so long as he did not entice away other dyers journeymen or … gave permission for clothiers to weave their own cloth, so long as they made an initial payment to the weavers' company; … until 1885, however, that J. K. Starley, of Starley and Sutton, made in Coventry the first really practical safety …
A History of the County of Warwick
… area this thoroughfare was nearly a mile and a half long, stretching from the suburb of Spon outside Spon Gate on … the bridge; on the north there was a stone tenement with a long orchard and on the south three cottages called le … forced to take place in lanes and yards, as well as in the long garden plots behind the existing houses. Many gardens …
A History of the County of Warwick
… mayor, aldermen, and council developed. There remained for long, however, several administrative and judicial bodies in … when Edward IV confiscated them, 15 Coventry had for so long held. The new charter made amply clear the closed nature … but it had been leasing the lands to its own members for long terms for large fines but at low rents. As a consequence …
A History of the County of Warwick
… were taken towards the unification of Coventry and the long conflict with the priory was eventually resolved. In … should be made by Coventry men and not by outsiders, so long as the king or the commons were not themselves involved. … were already acting as if they had corporate existence long before this charter was issued. 52 What is really …
A History of the County of Warwick
… POOR RELIEF. 67 The leet and the corporation had for long been faced with the problem of poverty. In the late 15th … 99 The problem of privies and rubbish disposal was a long standing one. In 1874 the medical officer of health … dairies, cowsheds, and milkshops. 12 One of the most long-standing evils, however, was the state of slaughter …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the county of the city. These mills were in use for a very long period, many of them from the 13th to the 19th … certainly remarkable that the village of Stoke, with its long boundary of the Sowe, had no mill. Fulling was carried …
A History of the County of Warwick
… cloth to be dyed in the city. Norton was chosen for the Long Parliament later in 1640 together with John Barker, … (Leics.), and Sir Thomas Norton, son of the member in the Long Parliament, defeated Hopkins and Stratford. The … a distinguished military career, was created baronet, and long sat for Coventry; the corporation expressed appreciation …