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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Warwickshire. Osric, either repairing the Roman fortress, or erecting another in this city, which by the Saxons was … to preside over the ecclesiastical affairs of Huiccia or Wiccia. From the death of Osric nothing is recorded, … series of ages: this sediment is in some places a pure clay, adapted to the making of bricks, but is generally a …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… alwayes dwellinge in Odingley and haveinge noe maintenance or frindes to relieve her, was about a moneth sithence … towardes her [findeinge?]. ordered that they provide etc or yf they complayne a precept to be made to bynde them etc … most humble per [secund?] Henr Jackson quod informacio etc est vera fiat [bre?] de bene [gerend?] John Fleminge Henry …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… shall pay the arrerages and herafter untill Christmas last or the constables to be bounde to their behaviour and to pay … Easte contynuenge his mallice givethe out that he hath or will endite or presente the said Weldes at the quarter sessions or …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… and the most part of the rest upon matters of small or noe value, haveing nothing but the bare allowance of a … saide John Brayne and order him to breade up the infant or otherwise to pay her such summes of moneyes as to youre … that heretofore for wante of power to sue out mye quietus est forth of the chequer office this by somme pryvie adverser …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… pray for worships good and happy prosperity. to provide or coram [L. J?] The neighbours and tenants of the lord of … and the said Sparry [illegible] to kill the peticioner or any of his sonnes [illegible] presente daye he did lay way … she be not enforced to wander contrary to the lawe. [ord?] est. Margaret Gardner. Ref.110 BA1/1/45/68 (1620) To the …
A History of the County of Essex
… south of that, then, as the ground rises, bands of London clay, and sands and gravels. Most of the higher south part of … rise to two stories of dragons, 'worm' meaning serpent or dragon. The first, apparently unsubstantiated, is that a … was levied on 39 households in 1662, six of them having 6 or more hearths; 45 households were recorded in 1671, of …
A History of the County of Essex
… in the afternoon, compared with average attendances of 5 or 6 and 40. 5 Primitive Methodists met from the 1880s in the … preacher Samuel Nightingale, 6 on the north- east side of Bullocks Corner. Attendances declined after the Second World …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… p., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes through it. The … p. The surface is undulated; the soil, which is a strong clay, is fertile, and near the river the scenery is … 8337 inhabitants. One of the earliest crusaders, Elias or Elizeus, founder of the family of Worsley, is said to have …
A History of the County of Sussex
… land, later known as the salt green, 60 the salt grass, 61 or Worthing common, gradually came into being south of the … town, which may have been exacerbated by the extraction of clay, sand, and other materials from the beach in the late … around the Steyne, including the Steyne itself. 11 By 1812 or 1813, however, the bubble of the town's first boom had …