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A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group … sects, 25 though not always extending to Roman Catholicism. 26 There were, nevertheless, occasional …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious … but no Witney townsmen seem to have been implicated, and in 1577 only five recusants were reported there. 2 Among … Tempest family lived at Witney in the early 17th century, and in 1641 Francis Rathbone, one of a recusant gentry family …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and comprising 869 a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, … by an ancient intrenchment supposed to be British, and to have been afterwards occupied by the Romans, Roman … view over the dale. There is a place of worship for Roman Catholics; and a national school has been established. On …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the … W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. … latter from the Saxon Willi or Vili, signifying "many," and Combe, "a deep ravine" or "dell." The town occupies a …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ROMAN CATHOLICISM. William Drury, whose wife Mary was the sister of … recusant Catherine Audley of Berechurch, lived in Wivenhoe and was involved in papist activi- ties locally in 1577. 66 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … of the New Connexion, Unitarians, Irvingites, and Roman Catholics. An act for a cemetery was passed in 1847, under …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ordered the payment of the contribution to the repairs, and awarded costs of 42 gold florins against Wolvercote. 7 … were made regularly until 1869, were revived in 1923 and continued until the closure of St. Peter's in 1965. 8 … money to St. Peter-in-the-East as the 'mother church', and as late as 1636 a woman left 2 d. to the parish church of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Godstow was returned as a recusant in the 1590s, 64 and his influence may have encouraged the eight other … the early 17th century. 65 Matthew Cheriton, a freeholder, and his uncle Edmund Reynolds of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, who … property in 1659. 67 There is no further record of Roman Catholicism in the parish until the 20th century, when, in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… CHURCH. A priest was recorded at Woodchester in 896 51 and architectural evidence shows that there was a church … the 12th century. 52 The living was a rectory in 1320 53 and has remained one. The advowson descended with the manor … presentations were made by Edmund Bereford in 1352 and by William Zouche in 1395 and 1396. 55 The advowson, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… founded in 1699 to teach boys from Woodchester parish and Rodborough tithing in Minchinhampton parish, is treated … to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had increased to £561 and an estate was purchased at Hamfallow, in Berkeley. 9 By … schools had increased to six, some of which had 18 pupils, and the mistresses were usually paid £10 yearly, the residue …