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A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their … as elsewhere, the ruling group may have belonged to a religious guild, since the borough's first charter was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian … Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for … Presbyterian and Independent sects had declined through religious indifference. 58 Until the 1790s no dissenters were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. There were no recusants in Woolaston in 1603 … Gwillim (d. 1724), variously described between 1664 and 1714 as a labourer, gentleman, and esquire, who had an …
A History of the County of Somerset
… rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern boundaries were marked by watercourses including … retained ownership of the chapel until 1563 or later. 12 NONCONFORMITY A Mrs. Pym did not take communion in 1604 and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was in use in the 14th century. 93 In 1300 the land … c. 40 at Easter, was said to be rising because religious tracts had recently been distributed in the parish. … of baptisms, marriages, and burials survive from 1728. 70 NONCONFORMITY. A meeting house for Methodists was licensed in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from … to contain burnt wood, ashes, and bones. The number of religious houses, including colleges and hospitals, was about …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of our poore (to whom we pay 4 shillings per pound) and all manner of provisions soe excessive deer, by means … the poore are reduced soe low in their very smale estates and mean imployments, that they are not able to mainteine … licensed according to act of Parliament, to be a place of religious worship for dissenting protestants Richard Dipple …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. … whose hands are hereto subscribed being the churchwardens and overseers of the poore and other inhabitants of the … the parish afforesaid may be used as a meeting place for religious worship for prottestant dissenters and that a …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Dowler, Joshua Tilt, Benjamin Watson, Benjamin Pearsall and Francis Homfrays, protestant dissenters. Ref.110 … (1739) Worcestershire To Henry Townshend esquire and the rest of the worshipfull justices of the peace of the … the town of Bromsgrove in the county of Worcester for our religious worship and therefore humbly beseech your worships …