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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The charter had enjoined the 'ten men' to distribute £3 15 s. a year in charity. 23 This sum was supplemented in the latter part of … there were two collectors for the poor, who received £21 0 s. 11 d. and disbursed £21 17 s. 7 d. 25 In 1591 William …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Schools SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of … in 1710, when a permanent school building with a master's house had been built and the girls' school started, there … year, of which rather less than half came from the Wright charity. The boys learnt reading, writing, arithmetic, and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1181 and 1204, were presumably his descendants. 54 William's son Henry 55 had apparently succeeded by 1210, 56 and was … c. 1230. 57 Another William of Wiston, apparently Henry's son, is recorded in 1238, 58 and held 4 fees in Wiston and … the parish went to school in Steyning and Washington. 39 CHARITY FOR THE POOR. By a codicil to his will proved 1712, …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… who held the lands that had once been Robert dispensator's. 28 The earliest reference to their tenure of Wistow seems … earls of Pembroke, who remained tenants of the family's Leicestershire estates, including Wistow, until the death … that Samuel Ward gave £5 by will for the poor, but this charity was lost by 1837. 20 V.C.H. Leics. iii. 194. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and … 27 persons. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 12. 12. 3., and in the gift of H. C. Sturt, Esq.: … curacy; net income, 93; patrons, the Trustees of Barwick's charity. The chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, was built in …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… of Roger de Midhop. It descended in Thomas de Pykering's posterity until after the death of Lady Anne Knevet, the … John Barrow, rent 12s. 11d.; 1 messuage called "Chamley's," owner John Barrow, rent 12s. 11d.; 1 messuage called "Tyson's," owner James Barrow, rent 12s. 11d. 2 messuages called …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Bodmin; containing 468 inhabitants. The parish … of Withiel. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: … houses erected, in 1795, by the feoffees of the charity estates; these are at present let to tenants, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by subscriptions, loans, and a subvention from the town's Freeland estate charity, 1 together with sale of old materials; the new … the bailiffs and excluded from charitable uses. 4 Holloway's and Townsend's Almshouses Two other almshouses were founded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's recovery in the early 19th century, as piecemeal mechanization transformed the town's industrial organization. 14 The Cloth and Blanket Industry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Nonconformist schools better suited to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed in 1724, catered … that structural change was essential, and in 1877 a Charity Commission Scheme reorganized the school as a 'Second …