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Page 87 - We ordain that the archbishops and all bishops within their several dioceses shall procure (as much as in them lieth) that a true note and terrier of all the glebes, lands, meadows, gardens, orchards, houses, stocks, implements, tenements, and portions of tithes, lying out of their parishes (which belong to any parsonage, or vicarage, or rural prebend) be taken by the view of honest men in every parish, by the appointment of the bishop (whereof the minister to be one), and be laid up in the bishop's...
Page 72 - PRESCOT, Huyton, and merry Childow, Three parish churches all in a row : Prescot for mugs ; Huyton for ploydes ; Childow for ringing and singing besides.
Page 15 - ... galleries on the north and south sides and at the west end, and to rearrange the pews on the ground floor in a regular and uniform manner.
Page 12 - ... following the natural line of the hill. Or, though usually on high ground, less dependent on natural slopes for protection. c. Rectangular or other enclosures of simple plan (including forts and towns of the Romano-British period). D. Forts consisting only of a mount with encircling moat or fosse. E. Fortified mounts, wholly or partly artificial, with remains of an attached court or bailey, or showing two or more such courts. F. Homestead moats, consisting of simple or compound enclosures formed...
Page xxiv - ... beyond the means of most sippers, seeing that in 1666 a pound of tea cost sixty shillings ; and money was then at a far higher value than in the present century. The multifarious ramifications of those traders j ustified the application of the term grocers, as well as to those ' engrossing ' merchandise, because they sold by the gross.
Page 12 - G. Enclosures, mostly rectangular, partaking of the form of F, but protected by stronger defensive works, ramparted and fossed, and in some instances provided with outworks. H. Ancient village sites protected by walls, ramparts or fosses. x. Defensive or other works which fall under none of the above headings.
Page 12 - Fortresses on hill -tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill. Or, though usually on high ground, less dependent on natural slopes for protection. c. Rectangular or other enclosures of simple plan (including forts and towns of the Romano-British period). D. Forts...