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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… husband deceasing about 3 yeares agoe left her with 2 very young children and great of the third at which time their … lose it: nor she to pay it: the eldest of the poor widow's 3 children was borne with a rupture and lies almost … the county of Worcester, hath bene obliged to pay toward's the mayntenance of his grandchildren liveing att Bengworth …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… first wife the forenamed Matilda,) was a most excellent young man and most like his ancestors, he fell in the battle … therefore take a cursorary review, after Leland and Tanner's account. " Werkensop a pretty market town of two streets, … with his son who lost his head January 19, 1547. This young nobleman was one of the most accomplished scholars of …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Poleghelegh which bordered Robert of Horkesley's wood in 1290, were probably assarts near the Little … of the seasonal and limited nature of arable farming, young men walked to Mersea for work at haymaking time. 90 Low … 467/4; above, Little Horkesley, Econ. Ibid. D/DH 1 A92. A. Young, Essex Agric. 322, 325, 342, 345, 367. E.R.O., D/DEl T …
A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in … football, bowls, and badminton clubs, organizations for young people, women, and the retired, and a handbell ringers' …
A History of the County of York
… and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James … visitations. 48 There was a continual temptation for young and old to use the minster as a place of recreation, 49 … notice stating that disorderly behaviour, the bringing of young children into the minster, tobacco-chewing, and the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … 87 Those conditions were a principal cause of Worthing's growth as a resort, and afterwards of the expansion of the … albeit small ones. 97 Another new type of visitor was the young foreign student of English, 98 numbers of whom …
A Dictionary of London
… VI. 1547 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 100). No later record. Wrestler's Court South out of London Wall, west of Carpenters' Hall (O. and M 1677-Boyle, 1799). Called "Wrestley's Court "in Strype, 1755 and Boyle. Had houses only on the … wardrobe at "le Wynwharf," 1316 (Ct. H.W. I. 267). "Le Wyn wharf in parochia Sancti Martini de Vinetra," 1330 (Hust. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … in 1841, 1,380 in 1961, and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. … and the adjoining length to Shrewsbury opened in 1797. A wharf at Long Lane originally supplied coal and lime to the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… distributed annually. Edward Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The … was built on the site c. 1801 but the rent of £4 10 s. was not increased; it was paid out annually as the … the charity was widened to include general assistance to young and other poor persons. 97 Thomas Ore (d. 1798) left a …
A Dictionary of London
… 25th, the day of St. Clement the Pope (N. and Q. 11th S. IV. 147). Wysswarf See Fish Wharf, near London Bridge. Wytecruchestrate, Wytecroychstrate … Dunstan towards the Tower, 1285 (Ct. H.W. I. 75). He had a wharf on the Thames in the parish of Berkyngecherche, 6 Ed. …