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A History of the County of Gloucester
… of wooded land at Woodchester was made to the bishop of Worcester by King Ethelbald of Mercia. 44 The episcopal …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… II stayed at Heale during his flight after the battle of Worcester. 23 Gen. Sir George Bowles (17871876), the second …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Pershore, Upton and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 5 miles (S. S. W.) from Worcester; containing 40 inhabitants. Here are the remains of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Webley and Godden moved to Old Woodstock in the 1820s from Worcester and London, and by the 1870s many of the town's skilled glovers were from Worcester and Yeovil (Som.). 42 Dependence on gloving exposed … the early 20th century; it closed in 1966. 67 By 1891 the Worcester company of Frank Bryan had opened a factory at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… road was relatively unimportant, the London-Worcester road passed 2 miles to the north, and the … to Birmingham on most days, and daily coaches to Holyhead, Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Leicester; carriers provided a … declined sharply in the 1840s: by 1844 the Birmingham and Worcester coaches through Woodstock were carrying London …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Woodstock. 59 Timothy Hunt, a Baptist glover from Worcester, helped in 1820-1 to register two meeting houses in …
A Dictionary of London
… a wool merchant's sign. Woolsack Alley See Cutler Street. Worcester House William, earl of Worcester, was seised of the capital messuage called "Worcester place" in the parish of St. James at Garlikehitlic …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… after 1546 when John Conway, steward of Henry, Earl of Worcester, obtained a lease of two-thirds of the Grange and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and rectory were granted in 1537 to Henry, Earl of Worcester, 97 who held them at his death in 1549. 98 Henry, … John Ball, vicar 1562-4, was chaplain to the Countess of Worcester and neither resided nor provided a curate, so that …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the grant of the Tintern Abbey estates to the Earl of Worcester, and up to the late 19th century most of the land … was begun c. 1650, after the sequestration of the Earl of Worcester's estate, but the process was reversed by Cromwell, … Weir in the grant of the abbey's lands to Henry, Earl of Worcester, in 1537. 18 The fisheries of Brockweir (which lay …