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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Story xx shillings [quil...t?] Inhabitants of St. John's, Worcester. Ref.110 BA1/1/108/127 (1666) Wee the … parish of Abberley in the county of Worcester afforesayd widow, was borne in the sayd parish, and having never lived …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… your petitioner humbly conceives is as much as hee by his tenure or in the judgment of any juditious man one the sight … doe rent of Alice Tanner of the parish of Hampton Lovett widow a certaine small tenement and land thereunto … a taylor 3 children of one Nicholas 5 of one Jackson's and one of a certeyne woman called Black Besse, all lately …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… wife of Thomas Bradley hath sworne the peace of Jane Glove widow which we rather think is more from malice then any just … William Hanson John Rushall cunstable Margery Field, widow of Kings Norton. Ref.110 BA1/1/176/158 (1697) To his … lose it: nor she to pay it: the eldest of the poor widow's 3 children was borne with a rupture and lies almost …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… her husband. She was daughter of Peter de Montford, and widow of William, son of Simon de Montacute, 36 and mother of … Ankaretta, daughter of John le Strange of Blackmere, and widow of Richard, son of Gilbert Talebot, and mother of the … therefore take a cursorary review, after Leland and Tanner's account. " Werkensop a pretty market town of two streets, …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of land and a Bordar; and the Abbot of Bury St. Edmund's held the other half, with five acres of land, worth twelve … gules, a cross engrailed, and a canton arg. Fitz-Osbert's shield was gules, 3 bars gemelles or. [Pedigree of … Jermy, arg. a lion ramp. guard. gules.To Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Fox, and daughter of Philip Smallpeece, who …
A History of the County of Essex
… manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. 98 Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, and Henry I granted it to … to Richard's son Richard (fl. 1455). 8 In 1480 Elizabeth, widow of Sir Thomas Waldegrave, held the manor with her … William (d. 1610), William's son William (d. 1612), whose widow Jemima held in dower in 1635. Their son William …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Wormley 148. WORMLEY. (O.S. 6 in. xxxvi. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Lawrence, … his wife, with arms and inscription: floor-slab, to Mary, widow of Arthur Sheere, 1660, with arms of Sheere impaling …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 3 miles (S. S. W.) fromYarm; containing 143 inhabitants. This … annum, given to them in the reign of Charles I., by the widow of Sir Richard Wortley, second wife of the Earl of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … 87 Those conditions were a principal cause of Worthing's growth as a resort, and afterwards of the expansion of the … House, was a generous benefactor to the town, as was his widow afterwards until her death in 1907. 57 In 1893, as a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's will dated 1860. Part of the land was sold c. 1922, and the … Scheme of 1972; £4.80 was paid out in 1975. St. Elizabeth's alms-houses were founded in 1859 by Alfred Burges of … About 1920 John Pearson of Worthing established Pearson's Retreat Cottage Homes for poor, elderly inhabitants of …