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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Wisbech and a keen educationist, reported to the bishop on the schools of Wisbech hundred, 73 there were 250 boys and … wishes of the foundress, as follows: £2 2 s. for sermons on St. Paul's and St. Barnabas' Days, £85 to 100 aged … In 1846 there were also 18 boys and 25 girls attending on Sundays only. 77 In 1868-9 the building of St. Augustine's …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was added to it between 1882 and 1891. A further 315 a. on the north-west side of the parish including Brown-hill … a prominent landmark. Between the Chalk and the Weald clay on which the northern part of the parish lies are alternate … mentioned in 1293 5 and called the Strood in 1357, 6 lay on the Gault clay outcrop north-west of the manor-house and …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… in this article. The parish lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its … of 7½ carucates and it seems probable that the Domesday assessment of 13 included at least part of one of the … It may be significant that in 1445 Newton Harcourt's tax assessment of 1334 was reduced by over 10 per cent. 70 In the …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… was resident at Witherslack Hall and paid tax that year on seven hearths. In 1684 a dispute between the Earl of Derby … coparceners died without issue. This estate was settled on the issue of that marriage, and on failure thereof, remainder to the right heirs of Witham. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at Witney, Caswell, Cogges, and Lew: in 1524 he was taxed on goods worth over 860, a sum unrivalled within the county and comprising some 78 per cent of Witney's total assessment. 23 From the later 16th century wool merchants on … served several times as bailiff, paid on 38, the highest assessment in the borough. 53 Walter Jones (d. 1560), a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… developed rapidly, with some leading clothiers operating on a national or international scale. More general resurgence … 5 New fairs in 1202 and 1231, and regular expenditure on market stalls and selds, suggest active involvement by the … probably exceeded a thousand, 7 many inhabitants, on surname evidence, apparently incomers from surrounding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nondenominational National school was established in 1813 on Bridge Street, prompting a sharp fall in the number of … District Visitors; the school acquired new premises on Church Green in 1856, and a second National school at … by an acrimonious legal dispute over the school's poor-law assessment, culminating in distraint of his goods amid mutual …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town stands at an early crossing of the river Windrush, on a limestone cornbrash island formerly lying between two … for hearth tax in 1662, but many others probably escaped assessment, while those at West End and Woodgreen were … bypass, below (origin and devpt). PO Arch., postmasters' salaries 16871700, nos. 123, 1312; ibid. 170120, nos. 13940, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or small portmoot met usually around 612 times a year on a Wednesday or Friday, and the two tourns, lawdays, or great portmoots for the borough on a Monday near Hockday and Michaelmas. 24 The pattern was … market and fair tolls. Expenditure, some 1,460, included salaries (around 70), roads, paving, and scavenging (685), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the lease to Robert Dudley (d. 1588), earl of Leicester; 7 on his death he was succeeded as lessee by Stephen Brice (d. … was lord certainly by 1652, and in 1654 settled the manor on his son John, 12 though Brice may have remained lessee of … were demolished in the mid 17th, and the relatively low assessment of nine hearths in 1662 and 1665 suggests a fairly …