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The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… was quoted as a justification for the ridiculously low figure at which Rich valued these buildings to himself …
A History of the County of Oxford
… causes have combined to bring this about, such as the low price of corn, the increased cost of labour, and the … a.m. to 5 p.m., with an hour off for dinner. The wages are low, the cottages often very miserable, and the general … with whom the plan originated. 2 Consequent upon the low wages mentioned above, the food of the Oxfordshire …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was virtually complete. As Aubrey says, 'All the low grounds of North Wilts abound with a sowre herbage, which … of a fine, the fines themselves were excessively low in the 16th century. Thirdly, stewards of Crown manors …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and that they were increasing rapidly. They were low and had light forequarters, but good backs and … kept for store and put out with ewe lambs to winter on low ground. Here they were fed either with hay from racks … on broken flints. Although this meadow failed sometimes in low summers, it fetched as much as 5 guineas for the tithe of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a desirable social status was adequate compensation for low profits. 16 The real cost of this state of affairs, … prices realized for cereals, particularly for barley, were low and unsatisfactory. 36 Here an inflated domestic supply, … of cereal prices, or even stood to gain from falling and low grain prices in so far as they were already in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the surrounding country, although it is still low and swampy. The tithes were commuted for land and a money …
Survey of London
… 112c, 113a). Behind the screen-wall to Piccadilly were low buildings for coach-houses etc., these flanking a small … are awkwardly cramped by the narrow site. The long and low east wing originally contained the great kitchen and … a central lantern light of oval plan and conical form, its low drum treated as an entablature with a frieze decoration …
Survey of London
… Kelk he accepted, according to Doyne Bell, 'an absurdly low price' and then took the first chance to hold out for a …
Survey of London
… metal required at 20 to 22 tons compared with Scott's (too low) estimate of under 5 tons: it was commented that he must … 210-foot run of some 169 life-size figures or busts in low and high relief. Scott called it 'perhaps one of the most … the sculptors had possibly made their contracts at too low a price. 409 In March 1865 the sculptors of the larger …
A History of the County of Sussex
… end. A notable example is Gallops on the east side, whose low north range may incorporate part of the timber frame of a … on isolated sites in the 19th century: Lanehurst, on a low ridge in the north-west corner of the parish, an early …