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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … shop; J. extracting house; K. grease filtering plant; L. drying sheds; M. spinning shed; N. whipping room and gig …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors … by his bailiff or steward through the courts baron and a twice-yearly tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued … 1 Dec. 1781; below, Hailey, intro. (domestic bldgs). W. L. Parry-Jones, Trade in Lunacy (1972), 12854, 163. Above, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Colne where it widens to form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … of England, i. 157. E.R.O., D/P 277/8/1; ibid. D/DU 27. B.L. MS. Cott. Aug. I. 1. 44; V.C.H. Essex, ix. 237-8. Census, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wolviston Wollaston (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… attending two private day schools, 30 boys and 80 girls a church Sunday school, and 300 boys and 250 girls a Wesleyan … was soon withdrawn. 56 Controversy raged over the board's intended school site at Ketley Bank, some ratepayers … thirty years, as did the committee's first secretary, R. L. Corbett. 69 The enrolment of 222 students at Oakengates …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… William Charlton of Wombridge (d. 1567) was reputed a papist or sympathizer with papists. 22 Samuel Campion, the … Wombridge, C. R. Cameron, apparently resisting the chapel's siting in his parish. 29 A chapel for the Primitives was … N.S. liii), 45. Original Rec. of Early Nonconf. ed. G. L. Turner (1911), 1. 55; ii. 737. Freedom After Ejection, ed. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of wood] Cox, following Randle Holme, described it as a COMB made of close, light WOOD such as blackthorn [Holme … (1727)]. Alternatively it could refer to a child's hobby-horse or a TOY horse, but probably not to a ROCKING HORSE. The precise meaning is unclear from the context in the Books of Rates. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road forming the … and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of … Landscape, 48-9. P.N. Cambs. (E.P.N.S.), 127. e.g. B.L. Add. MS. 9413, f. 44v.; Fox, Arch. Camb. Region, 125; R. …
The Environs of London
… of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by … free from the payment of the same, when they came to God's board, might say a Pater noster and an Ave for his soul, … Rowe. "Ann, daughter of S r William Martin, buried Ap l 10, 1638." "John and Ann, son and daughter of S r Thomas …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. … of justice 1 and, from the 13th century at least, held a view of frankpledge there. 2 In 1465 the abbot rebutted the … court. He claimed that, because of the annual payment of 4 s. to the exchequer, and references in the great roll of 1287 …