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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… persons afflicted with palsy, rheumatism, gout, blindness, or any other complaint which might render them objects of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Styrman to pay during his life 'the weekly payment for the collection for the pore of Wisbich'. 26 The town stock … salary and were under the control of a board of 'four or more of the most prudent persons of the parish'. By the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… £200 on a new sluice, which was broken by a sea flood in or before 1523, 4 but by 1566 there was a certain amount of … expensive. 6 An undated 'breife description of the notable or most famus rivers fallinge into the Fennes' in a volume of … that the level of the river bed had been raised 6 ft. or more by silting, so that the inland water was no longer …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 84 were 'cyphering'. In 1815 it was decided to appoint one or more monthly visitors from among the subscribers 'whose …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Subsidiary manors SUBSIDIARY MANORS 36 The manor or capital messuage of CORNERS or CORINS HOLT, which lay in the north-west corner of … town, is first mentioned in 1479-80, when Richard Cause or Caius was in possession of a messuage and 500 acres. 46 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… cover remained in 1978 in the wide strips of wood, or 'rews', which divided the fields. The home park on the … of Buncton, contains at least two buildings of the 17th or 18th centuries, besides some 19th-century cottages and a … outside the parish. Nineteen villeins each paid 16 d. or 24 d. rent a year besides goods in kind for a 'ferling' of …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… and was 50 in 1931. 14 Wistow Hall, which may be built on or near the site of the earlier medieval house, retains the … finials, kneelers, and large lateral stacks remained more or less unaltered until after the end of the 18th century. 18 … of the occupants were not technically paupers. 92 A small contribution to parish administration in the early 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… trustees, but not directly administering charities or keeping accounts. Two houses on the site of No. 45 Corn … Curbridge, with preference given to widows of clothiers or blanket-makers. 6 The houses, to include an upper and … a new Congregationalist chapel and endowing clothing or blanket charities. 8 By his will (dated 1827) the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at what may both … Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in the late 12th or early 13th century, when the bishop invested in several …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as well as more obvious rivals such as Burford, Bicester, or Abingdon (then Berks.). Even by the 1540s and 1550s, when … in the 16th century and later drawn from the town or immediate area. 11 From the 17th century Witney maintained … a new fulling mill in Hailey. 27 Other leading fullers or clothiers acquired mills in surrounding villages: the …