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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY In 1638 unlawful meetings and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas … the present meeting-house was built three years later. 18 Methodism did not immediately obtain a foothold in Wisbech; … the Market Place on Sunday evenings by the Independents, Methodists, General and Particular Baptists. 'The Church was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish … of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and comprised 256 a., was added to it between 1882 and 1891. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, the Chapter of Ely. There is a place of … the 14th century. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Remains exist of a monastery that was subordinate …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the … in which 'the poor of the borough are placed'; when and how it was acquired is not known. By the 1760s it had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… council acknowledged the need to improve infrastructure and attract new industries if Witney was not to become … firm Smiths' of England, attracting both local employees and large numbers of incomers, began a fundamental and long-term shift in the town's social and economic …
A History of the County of Oxford
… taught some pupils, but by 1548 he did 'little service' and the growing town was recognized to be in need of a … the wealthy clothier Walter Jones left 10 for its 'repair and amending' so that 'children may there be taught', … Sundays, prompting acrimonious disputes with the Wesleyan Methodists who asserted that the school was non-sectarian and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the … Oxf. Jnl. Synopsis, 4 July 1786; below, nonconf. (Wesl. Methodists). ORO, tithe award and map; below (bldgs). For the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials … he found at Henley, and he repeatedly praised the Witney Methodists as a 'pattern to all England'. 290 Presumably … 'Contribution of the Early Family towards Wesleyan Methodism in Witney' (TS 1981), p. 5: copy in ORO, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited goods usually belonging to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King … Aelfhelm. The estate was conterminous with the later manor and parish, but may have been assembled only since the mid …