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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… worshipped in what had been a carpenter's shop, a priest coming over from Peterborough for monthly services. 79 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a … of St. Mary is recorded between 1357 and c. 1548, the priest, who was sometimes called the lord's chaplain, …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the … 1836 Wistow was placed in Billesdon Union. 70 CHURCH. No priest was mentioned in Wistow in 1086, but the priest who …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town … 1534) left a bread charity to be distributed by a chantry priest so long as he remained in orders, while the clothier …
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, one … 1375, though his surname was probably hereditary. 2 In the early 16th century a chantry priest evidently taught some pupils, but by 1548 he did …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, … The houses certainly lay on Corn Street, and the priest had land in the Crofts, while land belonging to St …
A History of the County of Oxford
… PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems likely, the earliest … belonged to a prominent family of Witney burgesses. 54 A priest and three clerks recorded in 1279 and a chaplain …
A History of the County of Oxford
… CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong recusant tradition in the town either then or later. 1 In 1549 Oxfordshire gentry … on the Greenwood family's manor house at Brize Norton: a priest from there tried to proselytize in Witney in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… 6 in. xxxvii. N.W.) Wivenhoe is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall … chaplain to the Countess of Oxford, 1535, figure of priest in mass vestments with chalice and host. Indents: In …
A History of the County of Essex
… ROMAN CATHOLICISM. William Drury, whose wife Mary was the sister of the staunchly recusant Catherine Audley of Berechurch, lived … was opened off De Vere Lane. In 1995 it was served by a priest from Brightlingsea and attracted c. 100-110 people …