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A History of the County of Essex
… succession his younger brother William (1619) and William's son Richard (1645). 6 In 1824 the next presentation was … new district chapelry was created, when the church of ST. PAUL, Manor Road, was built in 1854. 58 C. B. Waller, who as … had been mainly responsible for raising the money for St. Paul's, became the first vicar. He was succeeded by his son, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the … to the original building plots. 94 Quitrents rose from 36 s. 5 d. in 1230 to 43 s. in the 1260s, c. 45 s. in 1279, and … Before later encroachments it was unusually wide, almost a chain, and therefore comprised roughly an acre. 18 Taken …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market … star for the duke of Marlborough cost 50 gn., and a 2 oz. chain sold in France for 170. 80 The craft's introduction to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the borough's rents, market tolls, and profits of court. 79 In King … during that of Gamaliel Bobart in 1775. A mayor's gold chain and enamelled badge with the borough arms were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Redbornestoke, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Bedford; containing 1122 inhabitants. It … elevation. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 13. 6. 8., and has a net income of 236; the … Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's-Barton, union, and E. division of the county, of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cathedral, of which the only one now remaining is Edgar's tower. In 1041, a tax imposed by Hardicanute excited an … But by far the loftiest tract is the Malvern hills, a chain extending from north to south, upon a base about six … in 1304, with a fair on the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… he being bound to keep the peace by the said James Eckley's false information (as we beleive) [illegible] [illegible] … Thomas Beale Richard Fisher John Moore Thomas Clarke Paul Thackwell William [South?] Edmund Wodley Edward Tomkins … (of the said parish) do sell ale and cyder upon the Lord's day, and at other unseasonable times; by which means some …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Wormbridge 72 WORMBRIDGE (C.c.). (O.S. 6 in. (a)XLIV, N.E., (b)XLV, N.W.) Wormbridge is a small parish, 8 m. S.W. of Hereford. The church is the principal monument. … small panels with figures of saints, including Peter, Paul, Edmund the king, Catherine, an apostle ?, Stephen and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… in Buckinghamshire Worminghall 100. WORMINGHALL. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxi. N.E. (b)xxxi. S.E.) Eccleslastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands at the S. end of the village. The walls are of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … neighbouring collieries. Worth, or Word (St. Peter And St. Paul) WORTH, or Word ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union and hundred of Eastry, lathe of …