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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the site was later found inconvenient and in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town … in Hollow Way (later Oxford Street), rebuilding it in 1612 and again in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a …
The Environs of London
… to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on … the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the distance of nine miles from London. The parish is … of the river into Essex, being there bounded by Barking, and Barking-creek which separates it from Eastham. On the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships … humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve beinge a lame crepple and one whoe was borne and hath byn alwayes dwellinge in Odingley and haveinge noe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… yt please your worshipps, that whereas at [Michaellmas?] and Trinitye sessions last past there was a bill of [complaynt?] and two severall certificattes preferred by us the … Thomas Moorely Elizabeth [illegible] wief, John Kempster, and Thomas Byrd alesellers, [sh...?] unto your worshipps, of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… knight one of the Kinges majesties justices of assizes and gayle deliverye for the countye of Worcester. The humble … him for his damages the summe of xxii pounds x shillings and for which he had an accion against thinhabitantes of the saide hundred, and thereuppon had levyed by the sheriffe of the saide …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1620s Thomas Pirkes and eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To … of Richard Emmes was born in our sayed [town?] [illegible] and her sayed husband being now common servant [illegible] worship and other inhabitants (and having lived in [Fladbury?] …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… here delivered of a bastard sonne who prooveth impotent, and shortly after the said Clarke brought a bond and delivered it to the oversee minister of the said parishe … was then a prisoner in the custody of the said Clarke and or since [illegible] convicted of felony, soe that by …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… troblesom your worships knoweth being lxvi yeares of age and soe much weaked by the servis of this offis this yeare am … according too justis I may be dischardged of my officis and wee having noe courte within our manner too bring a nue … to be officer according to the custome of the place and tyme out of mynd have not dunn the servis are bould toe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, and to all others whom it shall or may concerne Wee whose … matter was heard in court, betweene the said inhabitantes and one Richard Grimell, concerninge the keepinge of a … childe whereof the said Richard is the putative father; and whereas the said Richard hath since the said sessions, …
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