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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 … Oswi, and Leoflede, daughter of Brithnod the first abbot, on the admission into that monastery of their son Ailwin, … is supposed to have taken up his residence in the castle, on leaving which the king attempting to cross the Wash at an …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Castle CASTLE The castle, not mentioned in Domesday Book, is traditionally … which the manor ultimately took its name, must have been on the site of Barton Farm on the opposite side of the river. … ten days later Beaupre warned the Council of a proposed assembly of 5,000 persons on Tilney Smeeth (Norf.), who …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Officials of the corporation OFFICIALS OF THE CORPORATION The town … every five minutes at least. 15 In 1812 a 'noisy and riotous crowd' in the Market Place and the 'inevitable … in the lower walks of society' brought caustic remarks on the inefficiency of the town's police and watching system …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… unlawful meetings and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are the first sect … In 1697 they built a permanent chapel off Falcon Lane, on land belonging to Henry Place, a wealthy woollen draper … from it, and at any rate some of the thousand loungers, riotous persons and squallers and squeezers in the Market …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and … century. No. 49 Market Square is a timber-framed house on a prominent island site, formerly jettied on the principal … paradise'. The shift was ascribed primarily to 'close Sabbath instruction', the attention given to education, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured … or small portmoot met usually around 612 times a year on a Wednesday or Friday, and the two tourns, lawdays, or … council. 64 Parish Government The Vestry to c. 1830 An assembly of lay parishioners, including representatives from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The … 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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century … with territories north of the river Windrush dependent on a probable minster at Minster Lovell, and those south of the river dependent possibly on Bampton. 2 The church was dedicated to St Mary the Virgin …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant … rector. 3 Probably that tendency, too, was focused on prominent clothiers and other tradesmen; inhabitants … a new chapel on Davenport Road with an attached hall and assembly room, which served new housing estates west of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of … inhabitants are supplied with water by pipes from a spring on Mawndown, a hill about a mile distant. A woollen manufacture is carried on, but not on so large a scale as formerly; the articles …