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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a corporate borough for the first time, cost £260 10 s. 10 d. 46 The burgesses were given the right of perpetual … A schoolmaster was to be provided at a salary of £12 8 s., and an annual distribution of £3 15 s. was to be made to the poor. The bishop was made Visitor of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… as its presiding member. He received a 'gratuity' of £5 5 s. a year, but by 1834 this sum was by established custom … town clerk was first employed in 1680; previously 2 s. had been paid to a clerk when a lease or bond was drawn up, under the benefaction of William Holmes. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The charter had enjoined the 'ten men' to distribute £3 15 s. a year in charity. 23 This sum was supplemented in the … there were two collectors for the poor, who received £21 0 s. 11 d. and disbursed £21 17 s. 7 d. 25 In 1591 William … 39 Newcomers to the town were required to enter into a bond that they would not become chargeable to the rates; 40 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Witchampton 24 WITCHAMPTON (9806) (O.S. 6 ins., ST 90 NE) The parish, irregular in shape and … (1918), 118). The vestry and the organ chamber on the S. of the chancel were added in 1898 (Sarum Dioc. Regy.). … lights in moulded square-headed surrounds. A former S. window was blocked up in 1898 and replaced by sedilia. The …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… of Roger de Midhop. It descended in Thomas de Pykering's posterity until after the death of Lady Anne Knevet, the … John Barrow, rent 12s. 11d.; 1 messuage called "Chamley's," owner John Barrow, rent 12s. 11d.; 1 messuage called … at Becheheade. Beetham Repository. 1644 December, 21. Bond of John Layburne of Witherslack, esq., and two sureties …
A History of the County of Oxford
… manor included two water mills together rendering 32 s. 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys … precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at what may both have been early crossings of … were unwilling to continue in their lease and their 100 bond was returned. In the 1350s all the manorial mills were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … 34 Corn Street; that is typical of the period, in Flemish bond with burnt headers. The ready availability of good stone … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … the later Middle Ages. 3 Within Witney manor the bishop's liberties and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … were eight bells. The second was recast in 1885 by the Bond foundry at Burford, and in 1938 that, the treble, and …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… with the supposed kiln at Little Britain, noted on p. 81, S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa (SO 83970311), under and adjacent to a former church, now in ruins (map, p. 81, s.v. Minchinhampton), was excavated by Samuel Lysons in 17936 … was 'famous for its tesseraick work' (Gibson, Camden's Britannia (1695), col. 247). Evidence of sequence of …