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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of Wisbech: …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, but … the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech area are largely absent, 2 potatoes, cereals, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Recusants in the castle RECUSANTS IN THE CASTLE The idea of concentrating Roman Catholic prisoners from various jails … dates from 1572, when the Privy Council asked the Bishop of Ely (Cox) to report on the suitability of Wisbech Castle for this purpose. It was 'not ment that …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … 1882 and 1891. A further 315 a. on the north-west side of the parish including Brown-hill farm were 'transferred …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the range of occupations typical of a small, prosperous market and … clothier Nicholas Ifield (d. 1587) had at least one man-servant and two maids, 222 while a chandler's house in 1616 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry … in 1851 blanket-workers still comprised almost 19 per cent of the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … with two 'high' beds, a truckle bed (perhaps for a servant), a little cabinet, a hanging press, and a desk. 66 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early … de Millers, who resigned Witney in 1220, was a royal servant who later became master of St Cross hospital; 44 …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Church Church A chapel of ease at Wolvercote subject to the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, was first recorded in 1236, … it had no burial rights until 1414, when the inhabitants of Wolvercote successfully petitioned the pope for the …