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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 'Flying Shuttle' by John Kay [Patents (1733)], it required more than one weaver to operate a broad loom, so that … from the Dictionary's Archive that broader fabrics become more common during the eighteenth century, as did the choice … (late). Yellow canvas [yellow canvasse] Apparently nothing more than a CANVAS dyed yellow. However, it seems to have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… been found ( BNFAS, 6 (1971), 20, Yardley Hastings (18)). More Roman pottery has been discovered 200 m. to the S.E. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and then fell sharply from 297 in 1841 to 234 in 1851 and more gradually to 159 in 1911. Numbers remained stable until … met c. 1690 at 'Gallington', said to be Yarlington but more likely to have been Galhampton: Calamy Revised, ed. A. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the living, a fate that escaped his equally absent but more eminent successors, John Venn, master of Balliol College … and his attitude to communion services probably stemmed more from Evangelicalism than laxity. 91 A revival of … and 1823 one panel seems to have been removed, 11 and two more, perhaps with others from elsewhere in the church, were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… averaging c. 15 in the 17th and 18th centuries, were far more important. Robert Minn of Frize farm kept a bull and 46 … but during the 18th century Yarnton became again 'more of a dairy parish'. 89 Yarnton's grassland also …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fairly flat, rising gently to 61 m. at the village and more steeply to over 91 m. in the north-west beyond Spring … was inclosed, 68 suggests that it was by then little more than a footpath. The southern extension along Church … whether, as has been suggested, there were two or more settlements in Yarnton at the time of Domesday Book, 79 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… poor relief for periods longer than 13 weeks a year; many more were given casual relief. In the second decade of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… half hide; it, too, was held by Roger d'Ivri. 64 Nothing more is known of the half hide, which presumably merged with … to Sir Thomas's grandson Sir Thomas c. 1662, but it is more likely that they were removed c. 1756 by Sir James …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of Scottish … some oak-trees on the West Faldshope hill, but they are more remarkable for their great age than for the stateliness … distinguished for his military exploits in India, and more particularly at Manilla. Sir Walter Scott resided at …