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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech St. Mary WISBECH ST. MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger parishes of the Isle, covers an area of some … with the prior and convent or their successors the dean and chapter, but documentary evidence is slight. Pope … 1541 it was formally transferred to the newly constituted Dean and Chapter of Ely. 12 In the early part of the 17th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to it. The vicar was to receive the tithes except those of flax and wool. Land and other tithes were assigned to him for conducting the services at the chapel of Kilhus in Wisbech St. Mary (q.v.). 58 In 1275 Bishop … A pension of 6 s. 8 d. a year was also payable to the dean and chapter from the vicarage. 68 An earlier pension of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Guild of the holy trinity GUILD OF THE HOLY TRINITY The Guild of the Holy Trinity was much … appointment of a bailiff they audited his accounts. The dean was responsible for warning the brethren of the death of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… occurs c. 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the monastery of Ely. 54 In 1086 Wisbech was held by the abbot, and rated … treated. About 5 acres each went to the bishop and to the dean and chapter of Ely as lord of the manor and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Worthies WORTHIES The most famous native of Wisbech is Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), the slavery … to the town; William Godwin the elder (1756-1836), author of Political Justice, and father of Mary Wollstonecraft, … of the reign of Edward IV, John Saul Howson (1816-85), Dean of Chester, and John Scott, brother of Sir Gilbert Scott …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Wistow WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the … at 70 marks, 85 but in 1436 at only £10. 86 In 1524 the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln acknowledged a payment of 3 s. 4 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of … The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Ely (the appropriators), valued in the … in 1664, by Dr. John Barwick, a native of the place, and Dean of St. Paul's, London, who bequeathed the impropriate …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 2,100 acres, occupies a shallow dry valley on the E. bank of the R. Allen; it is entirely on Chalk, between 100 ft. and … sea-level. Land at East Hemsworth (18) was formerly part of Shapwick. Domesday mentions Wichemetune and two … cottages on the W. are of mid 19th-century origin. (17) Dean Farm (96970643), house, of two storeys with walls of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… 112 WITHERSLACK (C.g.) Witherslack, the Parish Church of St. Paul (O.S. 6 in. (a)XLI, N.E., (b)XLI, S.E., (c)XLII, … founded as a chapel of Beetham in 1664 by John Barwick, Dean of St. Paul's, and actually built about two years later. … "Reverend John Barwick S.T.D. born in this hamlet, late Dean of St. Paul's built this Chappell A.D. 1664"; the main …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the … in the union of Williton, hundred of Taunton and Taunton-Dean, W. division of Somerset, 7 miles (N. E.) from … in the king's books at 5. 1.; net income, 250; patron, the Dean of Hereford. The Baptists have a place of worship; and …