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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… (now North) Street, already purchased with part of Dyer's money, was to be held by the schoolmaster rent free and … for the clothing and support of 5 poor men and 5 poor women, natives of Wilton over 50 years old, who had resided … for marriage portions, not exceeding 10, to poor young women resident in Wilton. Individual portions never amounted …
The Environs of London
… that this calculation includes 800 acres of Lord Spencer's park, of which 600 are pasture and 200 arable. Two hundred … ground swampy 1. Wimbledon is charged the sum of 471 l. 8 s. to the land-tax, which, in the year 1791, was at the rate … called Wibandune 3. In this engagement two of Ethelbert's generals, Oslac and Cnebba, were slain. On the same common, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Wimborne Minster 22 WIMBORNE MINSTER (0099) (O.S. 6 ins., SU 00 SW, SZ 09 NW) The Urban District of Wimborne … on both banks of the R. Allen which joins the Stour in the S. of the town. The area consists almost entirely of flat … provision; one a monastery of clerics, the other of women. From the beginning of their foundation each of them …
A History of the County of Somerset
… behind existing frontages 24 in Flingers Lane, Ireson's Lane, and Bond's, Clewett's, and Dowding's yards, all north … and children. Some escaped, at least nine married local women, and several more were buried in the churchyard. 13 … for silk. 46 Silk throwing was said to have employed many women and children 47 and a silk throwster, a silk winder, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … of the poor; and there are almshouses for six men and women, erected by James Butler, Esq. The parish contains … yielding a rental of 128. An hospital for eight men and women was endowed by Thomas Brotherton in 1510, and Richard …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… on large corbels carved as semi-figures of men and women in 13th-century dress, that at the north-west being … table 17 ft. in diameter, locally known as 'King Arthur's Round Table,' with a Tudor rose in the centre and painted … of the 12th century. Thus in 11556 it is found that 14 10 s. 8 d. was paid for making the king's house in the castle of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Those connected with Winchester in general. 1. St. John's Hospital and the Allied Charities. The history of St. … paid twenty-four pensions at 8 s. a week for single men or women, eighteen pensions at 26 a year for eighteen married … married couples, and four pensions of 26 for single men or women to the latter class. 3. St. Mary Magdalen Hospital. The …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… cathedral body was reduced between 1841 and 1865. Le Neve's work was similar to the type of work he did for Canterbury … at Lambeth (without any folio details), Rymer, Keepe's Monuments of Westminster, 10 and the Diary of Archbishop … to 'Reg. Winton', and otherwise draw heavily on Wood's Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis. The …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester St Mary's College ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Immediately south-west of Wolvesey Palace in the … extended premises in the Sustern Spital, a hospital for women, a dependency of the monastery on the west, and the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… provides, are that fourteen of the burgesses paid 25 s. to the abbey of Romsey, 9 that the abbey of Wherwell held … inhabitants of the suburb of Winchester used to pay 12 s. 11 d. to the king as of his manor of Basingstoke. 11 The … so wise and free, the citizens so civil and faithful, the women so fair and pure' . . . . . 212 Only once was there a …