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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… ConditionGood. Secular Homestead Moat a (2). In Eastwick Wood, fragment. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Priory all the like claim and right of common in the said Wood called Fulwood: 3 to his Deed were witnesses Robert de …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are arable, 1120 down, 176 meadow and pasture, and 140 wood and coppice; the surface is in some parts hilly and in … an elegant structure, in a demesne richly embellished with wood. Near the head of the vale of the Porter is Whiteley Wood estate, with a mansion surrounded by plantations; and on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… seems to have had open fields and access to extensive wood-pasture. 96 In the 16th century there may have been c. … parish population was rising, and there were cottages in Hay wood. 99 The Protestation of 1642 was taken by 19 men from Hay wood and 6 from Soudley, a squatter settlement at its …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Ebony - Egypt tow Ebony [ebonie; ebeny] A hard black WOOD obtained from various species, but especially Dyospyros … or with marked contrast between almost white and black wood. Its grain is straight and sometimes irregular, its … either for such pieces of FURNITURE that needed little wood, like the frame of a LOOKING GLASS [Houghton], or as a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… 1717. Royal Arms: On gallery-frontof Queen Anne, in carved wood. Rain-water Heads: On exteriorwith date 1707. Stalls: … with traceried spandrels, and springing from moulded wood corbels; the other main timbers are also moulded. The … the trusses may be of the same date; they rest on moulded wood corbels. The roof of the S. aisle is similar and the …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… Organ: In N. chapel, by Samuel Green, 1792, in panelled wood case with gothic enrichments, given by George III to … on panel (Plate 56). Of James I, of carved and painted wood, with arms in garter, crowned, flanked by lion and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… Accounts). Clock dial: on W. face of tower, wood, octagonal, 18th-century. Font: limestone, lead-lined, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… face decayed; (4) King David (Plate 42), carved in soft wood, heavily stained, possibly from 18th-century reredos; … tracery with cusp. Table, small, frame and top of soft wood, mainly 17th-century, with two consoles, early … Chapel, masons' marks (Fig. 7, p. lv). Lectern: of wood, with eagle, turned stem and moulded base on eight claw …