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A History of the County of Gloucester
… will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had increased … purchased at Hamfallow, in Berkeley. 9 By 1818 the number of the dame schools had increased to six, some of which had 18 pupils, and the mistresses were usually paid …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. The revival of Roman Catholicism in the parish dates from the purchase of the manor by William Leigh, a convert to catholicism. … completion in 1853. Woodchester was the principal house of the order in England for some years and was later used as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road … bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … their names in the later 13th century from the surnames of the families which had owned them from c. 1200. 57 DITTON … 58 Archbishop Stigand later held it as lessee or custodian of the abbey, and on his death in 1072 it was taken by …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part of the … to (Sir) John Lyon, alderman and grocer of London, and Alice his wife, the manor of Woodford, with Hill House, … called Monkgrove to Alderman Sir John Lyon of London and Alice his wife in part-exchange for the manor of Woodford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … probably a royal servant. 60 In 1450 it was confirmed to Alice de la Pole (d. 1475), dowager duchess of Suffolk, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woolbeding WOOLBEDING The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 … rent to Gilbert de Basevile and 24 acres of land to the Prioress of Easebourne. 10 This was later described as three … Woolbeding and la Niwode, for the acquisition of which by Alice, then prioress, the convent was pardoned in 1339. 11 …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the … daughter of John Leving, Esq.; William Morland, Esq. 1755; Alice, his wife, daughter of John Leving, Esq.; Richard …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. …