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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… (b)VII, N.E.) Yanwath and Eamont Bridge is a parish on the N. border of the county immediately S.W. of Penrith. Yanwath Hall, Eamont … of a courtyard. The tower is said to have been built by John de Sutton in 1322 and to this date may belong the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton YAPTON The parish of Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west … relative William le Moyne (fl. 1326), 5 and Edward de St. John 'the nephew' (fl. 1341-6). 6 The descent is then lost … until 1568, when Henry FitzAlan, earl of Arundel, with John Lumley, Lord Lumley, and his wife Jane, granted Yapton …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; eard] A term with several meanings, the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that … of cloth. Until the invention of the 'Flying Shuttle' by John Kay [Patents (1733)], it required more than one weaver …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… XXXIV, N.E.) Yarkhill is a parish 7 m. E.N.E. of Hereford. The church is the principal monument. Capler Camp in the … of Woolhope. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. The … enriched. Fittings Bells: four; 1st, 2nd and 3rd by John Martin, 1671; 4th by John Finch, 1636. Chest: of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is … fined for their involvement in the 1497 rebellion. 5 King John probably visited Yarlington in 1209, 6 as Edward III … encumbered the manor with mortgages and in 1782 sold it to John Rogers (d. 1821). 27 Rogers had cleared the debts by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a … in 1566, but by 1579 the advowson had been bought by John Durant, lord of the manor, 51 and it descended with the … in the parish and his pupils included the puritan divine, John Ball of Cassington. Evans's estate was valued at only …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, … farm, received the highest assessment ( £7), followed by John Cocks ( £5), another Rewley tenant, and Richard Dalby ( … were assessed at the lowest level on labourers' wages. 63 John Chamberlain, who had acquired Yarnton by 1570, 64 began …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the … (d. 1672) 27 and another, in the late 17th century, by John Follett, tenant of a house in Mead Lane, just south-east … of Rutland, was born in the parish. 46 The career of John Radcliffe (d. 1714), the celebrated physician, was said …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … 72 who by 1570 had been succeeded by his brother-in-law John Chamberlain, third son of Sir Leonard Chamberlain of Shirburn. 73 John sold it in 1574 to John Durant of Cottesmore (Rut.), …