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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. … There is also a bequest of 13 per annum for apprenticing a boy in London, and another of 5. 10. for the poor. Woodhouse …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the … Woodmancott WOODMANCOTT, a hamlet, in the parish of Bishop's-Cleeve, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Cleeve, Eastern … division of the county of Gloucester, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Winchcomb; containing 372 inhabitants. Woodmancott …
A History of the County of Sussex
… night school for nine years which had ceased by 1875. 58 W.S.R.O., Ep. II/14A (1808). Educ. of Poor Digest, 973. Educ. … of Council, 1870-1 [C. 406], p. 537, H.C. (1871), xxii. W.S.R.O., Ep. II/14A/1 (1875). Rep. of Educ. Cttee. of Council, … 642, H.C. (1906), lxxxvi. Bd. of Educ., List 21, 1938 (H.M.S.O.), 404. W. Suss. Gaz. 21 Aug. 1980. W.S.R.O., Ep. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the … as were the 17th-century tenants Giles and Peter Franklin, barber surgeons. 71 It was the Star by 1720, 72 and remained …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the Poor Municipal Charities. The corporation's first almshouses were successors to those founded in the … in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town clerk's use. 78 The corporation provided an alternative house with … since there were over 40 recipients of a total of 33 s. 80 In the 17th century the lop of trees in the almshouse …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market … glovers, coopers, and barbers. Roger Sturgis (fl. 1612), barber, was also a surgeon. 50 The importance of coopering is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… master, who was to be a good preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's relict Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property … to the trustees in 1598 in final settlement of Cornwell's gift. 91 A sum of £50 given earlier by the Dolmans directly … continued to be lent out at interest for the master's benefit until taken in hand in 1640. 92 Thomas Fletcher (d. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the Clayton charity of 40 s. a year was paid regularly to a master in the years before … of the formation of a school board, to which the school's management was transferred in 1874. Attendance rose from 85 … R.O., D 2186/138; Ed. 7/35/384. Ed. 7/35/384. Ibid.; Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1885 and later edns.). Public Elem. Schs. 1906, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… east - west street. They include Dawbins, Jacobs, Tassel's Cottage, no. 4 Vicarage Road, and Apple Tree Cottage. … Sir John Hody (d. 1441), chief justice of the king's bench. 6 Fifty horsemen, a foot company from the Bridgwater … of Som. (1646), Times Whirligig (1646/7), and England's Changeling (1659), is said to have come from Woolavington. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 … 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 6. 18. 9., and in the patronage of Mrs. L. Flood … rector, the rent of which is applied in apprenticing a boy yearly. Woolstrop WOOLSTROP, a hamlet, in the parish of …