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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. German), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S. division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York, 9 miles (E. S. E.) from Hedon; containing 139 inhabitants. The parish is … fertile clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 12, and in the patronage of Mrs. Hildyard, of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… family Tysuns fee was transferred. The prior of St. John's of Jerusalem, 8 E. 1. 4 claimed free-warren in his demesne … appurtenances, late belonging to the hospital of St. John's of Hierusalem in England, as parcel of the late preceptory …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterborne Herringston 47 WINTERBORNE HERRINGSTON (O.S. 6 ins. SY 68 NE) The parish of Winterborne Herringston … covers less than 600 acres, stretching from the S. boundary of Dorchester across the South Winterborne and on to the N. slopes of the S. Dorset Ridgeway. It lies on Chalk. Winterborne …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… date a gap 130 yards wide was made, probably at Abel's Gull. Parts of the country-side were flooded to a depth of … in a poor way, was the husband of Jane Pepys, the diarist's aunt. 10 The inn in which the diarist lodged was the Swan … Charity Commissioners that 137¼ acres, producing £301 13 s. a year, were devoted to the endowment of the chapel. This …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the inclusion (from Wisbech Borough) of the hamlet of Ring's End, on the Nene opposite Guyhirn. Although it is … At the later date the total rents amounted to 45 5 s. 6 d. 18 As usual in the 14th century, a decline in … of the better class and best-conducted labourers.' Thomas Adams, by his will dated 1697, gave 4 acres near New Common …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 2 acres. Before this time various creeks, such as Carlton's Creek, 5 penetrated a long way inland and allowed the … In Leverington: the Marsh, Spitalfield, Thummins, Margerie's Croft, Farthing Field, Outnewlands, Fen Croft, Church … Walter son of Walter (120 acres) who held by a rent of 20 s. with suit of court, and the tenement of Ralph de Tirington …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… through these and neighbouring parishes. Such are Popham's Eau, an early 17thcentury cut to guide the waters of the old Nene into the Ouse at Salter's Lode; the Old Bedford River (part of the south-east … struck across in a southeasterly direction to join Popham's Eau at Nordelph (formerly a hamlet of Upwell but now a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Tydd, has been known since the 17th century as Lady Nunn's Old Eau, from the wife of a 14th-century Tydd landowner. 1 … in default upon the right heirs of Mary, relict of Henry Adams of Tydd St. Mary, a daughter of Thomas and Agnes Welby. … sited in Tydd St. Mary. On this point the will of Henry Adams, esquire, of Tydd St. Mary 42 is decisive. In it he …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parishes of the Isle. The tradition that St. Mary's church was the mother church of Wisbech is rendered … ones at Tholomas Drove on the road between St. Mary's and Guyhirn and at Thorney Toll on the extreme western … Nicholas being heir. 27 The next recorded owner is Henry Adams of Tydd St. Mary, who bequeathed it to his brother …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when 10,000 bricks were ordered for the purpose at 15 s. 8 d. a thousand. 13 The keeper's salary was fixed in 1624 at £13 6 s. 8 d. 14 In 1681 … in 1835. It has an attractive chapel, designed by William Adams in 1848, in the form of a little Doric temple. 54 The …