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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of wider textiles. It is noticeable from the Dictionary's Archive that broader fabrics become more common during the … century yellow metal BUTTONs were popular with the poor, judging by the descriptions of runaway apprentices and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … cleared but standard trees remained and grazing was thus poor. Labour services, valued at 51 s., comprised 140 owed … In 1647 it was said that the parish could not support its poor without assistance. 43 In the 18th century most relief …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, and from c. 1815 it was used to support the school and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … the 20th century, was sold in 1987. Although Yarnton was a poor living, several medieval vicars were long-serving, … Hall, who performed services regularly, attendances were poor; Gregory blamed his parishioners' 'thoughtlessness and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … in the later 19th century, are included in Yarnton's lot meadows; the west part was also lot meadow in the 18th … 39 were said by the vicar to be occupied by the 'labouring poor'. 79 From the late 19th century the major changes in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… latter was supported in 1797 by a biannual payment of 18 s. from the overseers and by voluntary subscriptions. The … in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on clothes for the schoolchildren. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known … was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new cottages also'. … houses, 2 public houses, and 39 cottages of the 'labouring poor'. 7 Cottages were said in 1868 to be 'badly constructed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so assessed. … attended by c. 6 parishioners. 23 Two overseers of the poor were chosen annually by rota from the parish's leading …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … and Teviotdale, and patronage of the Crown the minister's stipend is 233. 8. 1., with a manse, and the glebe is … has tended to diminish the number of applications to the poor's fund. There are in various places remains of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field … under leet jurisdiction. 21 In 17756 41 was spent on poor relief, in the three years to Easter 1785 c. 37 a year. … 1831 and 1834 an average of 318. Yatesbury joined Calne poor-law union in 1835 25 and became part of North Wiltshire …