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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… out in the town itself. A pesthouse was set up at Barton, and, though many cases were not fatal, 47 William Skortred … burials during the year was 206, including 42 in September and 20 in October, as opposed to an average of about 60 a … to have escaped the 17th-century outbreaks of plague, and the first attack of cholera (1832), though causing some …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish … of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and comprised 256 a., was added to it between 1882 and 1891. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and … specified. The charities of John Roper (d. 1534), William Lee (d. 1632), John Walter and Elizabeth West ( c. 1640), and … to the poor by the churchwardens and overseers. William Lee ( fl. 1632) of Abingdon ( then Berks.), gentleman: by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … which became Ravenor & Cuthbert and later Ravenor, Batt & Lee, continued as Lee, Chadwick & Co. in the late 20th century, having absorbed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to … committee to assist the overseers, meeting every week on pain of a 1 s. fine for nonattendance. Possibly those were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … Wolverhampton; containing, with the liberties of Orton and Swindon, 1808 inhabitants, of whom 1220 are in the … parish. The stocking-frame was invented here by William Lee, in 1528: about 150 frames are usually at work in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Priorslee benefited in 1975 from Shifnal united charities and from two charities confined to Priorslee ecclesiastical … established in 1888, yielded £3 in 1975, spent on blankets and clothing for widows. 83 9 th Rep. Com. Char. H.C. 258, … (S.C.C. 1975), 67; Cartlidge and Kidson, Hist. Priors Lee, p. xv. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have … and N. S. Kidson, Short Acct. of Hist. of Par. of Priors Lee (Shifnal, 1937; copy in S.P.L.), pp. vi-vii. S.R.O. … pp. 55-6. Ibid. /1/4. Cartlidge and Kidson, Hist. Priors Lee, pp. vi, xii. S.R.O. 3916/1/3. Ibid. /1/8; Peele and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Few roads are likely to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was … to Shifnal, first mentioned in 1335. 70 Watling Street and the road via Priorslee to Shifnal were turnpiked in 1726. … of a road running south-west from Watling Street at Pain's Lane to join it at Snedshill, the limit of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … for commercial vehicles were the main product. William Lee Ltd. took the works over in 1980. There were 200 … on the south (or Shifnal) side of Watling Street near Pain's Lane. Like so many developments around Oakengates at …