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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… miles (N. N. W.) from Newbury; containing 337 inhabitants, and comprising 2084 a. 26 p. The chapel is dedicated to St. … tithes have been commuted for 530, the vicarial for 200, and there is a glebe of 16 acres. A school is endowed with 10 … A market, granted by Henry III., was formerly held here; and a fair is still kept on St. Martin's day. The living is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 … The parish comprises 9483 a. 1 r. 5 p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are … is endowed with 21 acres of land. Wisbech (St. Peter and St. Paul) WISBECH ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken place in … Among subsequent tenants were Mr. Chettoe of Chesterton, a friend of Cole the antiquary ( c. 1773), 19 and Cheeseman …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Introduction WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area comprised by south-east Holland and Norfolk west of the Ouse. It is situated on the Nene …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… remained a quarter-sessions town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at Ely. 9 The Shire Hall on the east side of the … in 1810; it was replaced by the existing Sessions House and Police Station on the South Brink. 10 Since the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY In 1638 unlawful meetings and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas … congregation, of which at the same time Edmund Smith and Israel Cave were elected elders. 82 Wisbech does not … with 139 in March, 43 in Doddington, 96 in Whittlesey, and 67 in Littleport. 83 No licences were issued in respect …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… consideracion of all such as shalbe nedefull to attend and guard them'. 47 Eight years later the deprived … Papists were ordered to be sent to castles such as Wisbech and Banbury; the laymen were to be placed under guard in … the bishop was enjoined to put Wisbech Castle 'in order and strength' to receive Papists 49 and by October the first …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, the Chapter of Ely. There is a place of … ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Wimborne and Cranborne, hundred of Cranborne, Wimborne division of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: the tithes have been commuted for 320, and the glebe comprises 60 acres. The church, which contains …