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Survey of London Monograph
… Windsor Herald WINDSOR HERALD The office of Windsor is said to have been instituted for the … 25 August 1485, when he announced Richard III's death to Mayor of York; soon after sent to France; married 1486 when …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of 56 boys and 50 girls. In 1874 it was vested by the vicar of Winshill (as the sole manager) in the school … until the later 1930s, when seniors were transferred to Hill Street school, in Stapenhill. The Berry Hedge Lane … was cllr. for Winshill and Wetmore ward 1919-66 and twice mayor, 1937-38 and 1952- 53: Stuart, County Borough, i. 52, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wisbech (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of … 186 acres are common or waste. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Wisbech St. Peter. The church is … 1669. The corporation, however, at present consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen, and 18 councillors, under the act 5th and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Tydd St. Giles TYDD ST. GILES Tydd St. Giles, the northernmost parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 … of Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire. This stream has shrunk to a shadow of its former self but is an important boundary, … daughter of Sir Edward Osborne, Sheriff of London and Lord Mayor in 1583. In 1613 Welby entered his pedigree at the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… or standing within a double canopy or. (Granted 1929.) The charter of 1549, 45 making Wisbech a corporate borough … succession and the use of a common seal. 47 They were to hold the guild property in socage, and were licensed to … entrusted to an ad hoc body. No mention is made of any mayor or chief burgess in the charter. At the first recorded …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Officials of the corporation OFFICIALS OF THE CORPORATION The town … but by 1834 this sum was by established custom awarded to charity. This led the Commissioners to regard the office as 'burdensome without being …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Port, Nene outfall, canal PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by … by the blocking of the Creek. 3 No attempt seems to have been made to reopen the Nene channel until about … from 1865 and Sheriff of London in 1871. 40 He was Mayor of Wisbech from 1858 to 1862. 41 Various proposals were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Seals of the guild and the corporation SEALS OF THE GUILD AND THE … Gothic canopies, has been adopted for the arms granted to the borough in 1929, which have a crest showing a ship … sails. 43 This badge (keys) is used on the seals of the mayor and town clerk. 44 B.M. Cat. Seals, i, 845. B.M. Cat. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured … and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited goods usually … elected members representing four wards, headed by a mayor, and exercising limited responsibility within the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong … then or later. 1 In 1549 Oxfordshire gentry met at Witney to coordinate suppression of the Prayer Book rebellion, which … bequest from Daniel Hanley, Oxford's first Roman Catholic mayor: a room supplied by the station master was furnished …