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Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de Bethum (125156), also named … 1188. Roger, son and heir of Henry de Midhop, was living in 1290. The Chartulary or Coucher Book of Furness Abbey …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in which 'the poor of the borough are placed'; when and how … value until the loan was repaid, and further improvements in 1814, including addition of kitchens, were funded … of his heir at law, the Independent and Wesleyan Methodist ministers, and a representative of the Witney Quakers. Robert …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a … west Oxfordshire, its population rising from under 4,000 in the 1930s to over 20,000 by the end of the 20th century. 2 The ancient borough covered 192 a. in 1877, probably little different from its area in the later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at Westminster in 12923 and at Exeter and Winchester a little later, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his … with Winchester cathedral chapter having been settled in their favour in 1284. 3 From the 16th century the manor … Early family, who sublet it to a succession of Wesleyan ministers. 37 Manor courts continued to be held there …
A History of the County of Oxford
… NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th … of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local Lollardy: in the 1520s … Independents and Presbyterians, several of them ejected ministers from further afield, nevertheless suggests that 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 … ravine" or "dell." The town occupies a gentle eminence, in an extensive valley inclosed by lofty hills, which suddenly break into deep ravines. The houses are in general neat and well built, and by the removal of several …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Wivenhoe manor, the lords presenting regularly, except in 1564, 1589, 1607, and 1637 when turns had been granted or sold, 3 and in 1890 when Robert Cantrell presented as guardian of N. C. … (d. 1904) whose widow Alice Helen transferred it in 1931 to the diocesan bishop. 4 In 1984 the part of …
A History of the County of Essex
… One Quaker and a few Anabaptists were recorded in 1664. 69 John Argor (d. 1679), who had been ejected from … at Braintree, was licensed as a Presbyterian teacher in 1672. He had a congregation at Wivenhoe, which prob- ably … no trace of the first chapel remained. They were led by ministers from Colchester until 1803 when James Hyde, a lay …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wollaston (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of … the livings of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of Beaufort: the tithes have been …