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A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Church Church A chapel of ease at Wolvercote subject to the church of St. … 6 A further appeal to the pope in 1416, against Wolvercote's liability to contribute a third of the cost of repairs to … court. Both men presented were Oxford scholars: Matthew Smith, principal of Brasenose College, in 1533 and Thomas …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the area that became Wombridge … Francis Charlton still owed the Crown the 'king's rent' of £2 6 s. 8 d. for the maintenance of a minister, 51 but … and the one Sunday service there was then taken by Robert Smith, curate of Shifnal. Said to be inconveniently timed, at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Watling Street to Wombridge priory, perhaps on the line of the later Hadley Road. Priorslee probably grew up beside … of a road running south-west from Watling Street at Pain's Lane to join it at Snedshill, the limit of the improvement … 273-4. Trinder, op. cit. 84; R. F. Savage and L. D. W. Smith, 'Waggonways and Plateways of E. Salop.' (Birm. Sch. of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … Eliz. 1. Trin. [no. 8]. Leland, Itin. ed. Toulmin Smith, v. 18; Camden, Brit. (1772), i. 474; Staffs. R.O., D. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. St. Leonard's priory was dissolved in 1536 and its demesnes were leased … years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought … 3882/4/1. T.S.A.S. vi. 109, 114; Leland, Itin. ed. Toulmin Smith, iii. 67; L. & P. Hen. VIII, xvi, pp. 292-3. Salop. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Wombridge. William Charlton of Wombridge (d. 1567) was reputed a papist or sympathizer … Wombridge, C. R. Cameron, apparently resisting the chapel's siting in his parish. 29 A chapel for the Primitives was … Associates, of Birmingham, it was built by Patrick Smith. 48 V.C.H. Salop. iii. 60, 237; Camden Misc. ix (Camd. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to … (1727)]. Alternatively it could refer to a child's hobby-horse or a TOY horse, but probably not to a ROCKING … was a constituent of 'Plague water', for example [Recipes (Smith)]. In 1673, Ralph Josselyn recommended to emigrants …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester WOODCHESTER (11 miles W. of Cirencester) A silver spoon in the Ashmolean Museum was … with the supposed kiln at Little Britain, noted on p. 81, S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa (SO 83970311), under and … 74 (1955), 1725; 86 (1967), 1026. Toynbee (1964) passim. Smith (1965), 10511. RVB, passim. Agrarian History of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. The details of the estate held by Edward, sheriff of Wiltshire, in 1086 … No teams were employed on the demesne of Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small … Maitland, p. 53. S.C. 2/175/79. Glos. R.O., D 340A/M 23. Smith, Men and Armour, 276-7. Rudder, Glos. 841. A mill on …
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 … of the 10-hide royal manor in 1086 in defiance of Ely's claim, 59 which was never satisfied. The history of the … R 52/5/5BE. V.C.H. Cambs. ii. 28. Inf. from Mrs. J. Topham-Smith, Saxon Hall; photographs in her possession. V.C.H. …