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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and … 27 persons. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 12. 12. 3., and in the gift of H. C. Sturt, Esq.: … union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Ely; containing 561 inhabitants. The living is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … Duke of Bedford. The church, erected by Robert Hobbs, last abbot of Woburn, presents a singularly beautiful appearance, … red and fallow deer: the oak-tree on which Hobbs, the last abbot of Woburn, was hanged pursuant to the mandate of Henry …
A History of the County of Essex
… the west side of the Colne was transferred to St. Barnabas's, Old Heath. 5 The value of the rectory was estimated at 4 … 1254. 6 The church was not valued in 1291 when it paid 4 s. to St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's priory. 7 …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … with most of the south of Wivenhoe being the lord's demesne except for a considerable amount of copyhold land … parish extending into Cockaynes in Elmstead. 24 St. John's abbey, Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Economic history Economic history St. Frideswide's estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of … much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling the parish … part of Pixey in the north; Northmead, later Wolvercote Mead, was recorded between 1236 and 1247. 97 At the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th century. The … and North Oxford. The extra-parochial areas of King's Weir (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… though their parents paid no education rate. The town's principal street, Market Street, was under two highway … levels; street traders could evade the sanitary inspector's jurisdiction by crossing it. Ten authorities had local … the result of their operations being 'chaos' and the town's reputation for dirt and neglect. 22 The creation of …
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 next year to William Abbot for 21 years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … Richard Benedictine, B.Can.L. supd. 12 June, 1510; abbot of Athelney 1517. See Fasti, i. 29. Wray, Christopher … Marriage Licences, ed. Foster. Wyche, John Benedictine, abbot of Tewksbury; B.D. supd. 3 Feb., 1510-11; perhaps …
The Environs of London
… free from the payment of the same, when they came to God's board, might say a Pater noster and an Ave for his soul, … manor of Ray-house 13 was parcel of the possessions of the abbot and convent of Stratford-Langthorne, and was granted, … by the name of Reverend Father Archangel of Hastiville, Abbot and Baron of the vale of Holy Cross; Prior of Beaulieu, …