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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area … of the Well Stream, which divided Wisbech from Walsoken in Norfolk, to the far end of Wisbech High Fen beyond … Another ecclesiastical return, made by order of Bishop Compton in 1676, 38 showed 1,424 persons of communicant age …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY In 1638 unlawful meetings and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are … figure as a prominent centre of Nonconformity in Bishop Compton's 'census' of 1676, which enumerated only 12 …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… edge of the barrow and two Romano-British tile fragments in the rubble of the barrow mound. A tile stamped VLA 1 is comparable with the broken VL stamp on a flue-tile from Compton Grove Villa, Compton Abdale (1). Foxcote Tumulus (SP 011172), a large …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not to become largely a dormitory town, a recurrent theme in the second half of the 20th century. 1 The arrival in 1950 of the engineering firm Smiths' of England, … Crawford Collets employed 250 people at expanded premises, Compton and Webb's uniform factory 150, and Brazil's sausage …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and seems generally to have thrived despite a slight fall in population, with relatively limited unemployment even … until the late 1930s, when the premises were sold to Compton and Webb, a London firm of cap and uniform … were a machine-tools factory (presumably Crawford's), Compton and Webb's military clothing factory, and Looker's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, … about 1375, though his surname was probably hereditary. 2 In the early 16th century a chantry priest evidently taught … 'little service' and the growing town was recognized to be in need of a schoolmaster. 3 A schoolhouse was mentioned …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a … life 15001800). Protestation Rtns and Tax Assess. 2933; Compton Census, ed. Whiteman, 418, 422; Bodl. MS Bodley 323, … Secker's Visit. 174. ORO, MS Oxf. Dioc. d 557, f. 160; cf. Compton Census, ed. Whiteman, 422, implying over 1,600 adults …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at … illuminated Stations of the Cross by Donald Brooke of Long Compton, and a crucifix on loan from St Aloysius church in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the bishop procured excommunication against unnamed … jurisdiction, administered at first by officers appointed in the borough court, and from the 17th century governed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the existing building. Possibly that work was … a minster at Witney, and before the estate was assembled in possibly the mid 10th century the area may have been … (166571), 86 Nathaniel Crew (16714), 87 and Henry Compton (16745) were all bishops of Oxford. 88 Three rectors …