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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… these presentes, that whereas at Michaelmas sessions last, a certaine matter was heard in court, betweene the said … and one Richard Grimell, concerninge the keepinge of a bastard childe whereof the said Richard is the putative … uncapable of helping himselfe and nott able to gett a farthing towards his maintenance neyther is hee able to …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Worlingham Worlingham. Ulf, a free-man of Gurth, the brother of Harold, held Worlingham … enjoyed the profits of them; viz., Robert de Vallibus held a half-part of one of them, with thirty acres of land and a Bordar; and the Abbot of Bury St. Edmund's held the other …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Wix priory, who appropriated the rectory and ordained a vicarage of which they were patrons. 45 Cardinal Wolsey … except in 1662 when Peregrine Clarke had been granted a turn, and in 1760 and 1805, when the bishop and the Crown … Matthew de Braham was vicar. 67 Many of the medieval vicars were pluralists. 68 From 1400 or earlier, probably …
A History of the County of Essex
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable … to 4, and the men continued to hold 2 ploughs, suggesting a slight increase in the area under cultivation. The 19 … 47. In 1086 there were 7 beehives. 45 In 1086 there was 20 a. of meadow. 46 Many holdings, recorded from the 13th …
A History of the County of Essex
… and 8 miles south-east of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a. (929 ha.). 33 The Stour forms the northern boundary, and … sometimes cut through fields. Detached fields totalling 15 a. in Little Horkesley, 34 were transferred to that parish in 1889. 35 Most of the parish lies on a relatively high plain which drains northwards to the river …
A History of the County of Essex
… and amerced tenants for trespass and nuisances. 26 A three-weekly court baron was held c. 1528. 27 Between 1584 and 1634 a leet was held with the court baron at about two-yearly … of jurors sworn ranged from 2 to 15, but was more often a higher number. Inhabitants were presented for obstructing …
A History of the County of Essex
… Classis in the 1640s, left Wormingford c. 1669 and became a Quaker missionary. 97 In 1676 there was one protestant … may have attended chapels in nearby parishes. 1 In 1829 a cottage was licensed for services held once a week for c. 20 people by the minister of the Countess of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Buckinghamshire Worminghall 100. WORMINGHALL. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxi. N.E. (b)xxxi. S.E.) Eccleslastical b(1). Parish … E. window of three cinque-foiled lights and tracery under a four-centred head, apparently of the 15th century. In the N. wall is a window of 14th-century style, of two lights and tracery, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Wortwell Worplesdon (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the … and Wyke, 1424 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6795 a. 3 r. 34 p., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and … Wey and Arun navigation passes through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in …
A History of the County of York
… of Whitby and the Council of Cloveshoo, for Alcuin, in a letter to the archbishop in 801, urged that they should be … canons. 21 The earliest statutes also indicate that vicars-choral were employed by the canons as deputies. 22 … and the succentor vicariorum who was his deputy among the vicars-choral. The succentor vicariorum was responsible for …