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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of … as formerly; the articles consists chiefly of clothing for the West India markets, swanskins for the Newfoundland … subscription, and a grant of 500 from the Incorporated Society, for which 460 free sittings were provided. Here is a …
A History of the County of Essex
… and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might … small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden … farming methods, and was president of Essex Agricultural Society in 1870. At his Wivenhoe Lodge farm of 300 a., where …
A History of the County of Essex
… teacher was recorded. 94 A charity school, started in 1718 for 10 boys and 5 girls, still existed in 1724. 95 Two schoolmasters were recorded in the 1760s; one, John Potter, by will proved 1763, left £2 to … 3 By 1839 the schools were in union with the National Society. In 1848 a new schoolhouse, built in the Elizabethan …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles … and accommodated meetings of the vestry, a friendly society, and the Wivenhoe Association against Housebreakers, …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1664. 69 John Argor (d. 1679), who had been ejected from the church at Braintree, was licensed as a Presbyterian … in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for Presbyterian meet- ings in 1672. 70 Samuel Wood, who ran … 86 David George Goyder, minister of the Swedenborgian Society at Ipswich, founded a small society in Wivenhoe by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education There appears to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of the 19th century when dame … on the 'new' or National system, closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day … of Merton College, St. John's College, and the National Society, a new girls' schoolroom was built. 79 In 1833 a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ … small streams on part of the north, and field boundaries for the rest. The extra-parochial area of Godstow (411 a.), … down. In the later 19th century the Foresters' Friendly Society held its annual festival on Whit Monday, with a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorside. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for … 1846. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyans. The free …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 girls were attending … Collins, vicar 1872-8, 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children … Oliver's 82 expense aided by parliamentary and National Society grants; Oliver (d. 1867) left the school an endowment …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a papist or sympathizer with papists. 22 Samuel Campion, the minister ejected from Hodnet in 1660, held Sunday … 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no nonconformist … and United Reformed Church. About 1764 a Wesleyan society was established at Ketley Bank by J. W. Fletcher, …