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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodyates, West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, … has a commodious landing-place for coal, lime, and gravel; on its banks are some mills, and there are other large mills …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Church CHURCH. There was a church in 1086, 77 and by the mid 1220s the benefice was a rectory. 78 From 1958 it was … in plurality with Albourne, 79 and in 1978 it became part of the united benefice of Henfield with Shermanbury and … 88 The living was valued at £13 1 s. 10 d. net in 1535. 89 On one occasion at least in the earlier 17th century the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, and in 1086 of William de Braose by William … (fl. 1887). 63 The Dennetts seem always to have lived on the estate, 64 Thomas (d. 1723) and John (d. 1840) serving …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wookey (St. Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of Somerset, 1 … encrusted with concretions of most fantastic form, while on the floor are other large petrifactions, formed by the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Church CHURCH. The church of Woolaston was recorded in the foundation grant … against two parishioners for failing to pay great tithes, on the evidence that he had been instituted as rector in … doctrine. 29 John Ball, vicar 1562-4, was chaplain to the Countess of Worcester and neither resided nor provided a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary … Paynel (d. 1184), passing to his widow Eleanor de Vitr, countess of Salisbury, on whose death in 1232 or 1233 it …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of … situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a place … of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Independents, Wesleyans, …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… WORCESTER Bishops BISHOPS OF WORCESTER Wulfstan Prior of Worcester. Proposed c. 31 … 15 June; cf. R. R. Darlington in Cart. Worc. p. xlvii. For the name, see Cart. Worc. p. xlix n. 4. Cf. ibid. n. 8. … 2 Jan. (Worcester obit.: Cat. Worc. MSS. p. 92). ?Pagham, Sussex. Cf. Cart. Worc. p. lii n. 3, where Le Neve's date of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… & Radford WORKSOP, WIRCHESOP, & RADFORD. Elsi before the Norman invasion had two manors in Werchesope, which paid … made it) had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and … of sir William Cavendish, and of the said Elizabeth the countess his mother-in-law, by whom he had three daughters …
A History of the County of Essex
… was reported in 1715. 96 Giles Barnardiston, an elder in the Lexden Classis in the 1640s, left Wormingford c. 1669 and … held once a week for c. 20 people by the minister of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion chapel in Fordham, 2 and … the Baptist congregation, but there was still no chapel. 4 On census Sunday 1851 Independent Baptists, meeting in a …