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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 … slight opposition to the duke in 1802 when an unknown Irish nabob, William Camac (? Carnac), attracted a few votes, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. … rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern … of the Carthusian house at Witham and bishop of Killala (Ireland) 1459-61, who in 1480 let his vicarage for 3 years to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One …
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, … 1695; translated to Raphoe in 1713, and to the Primacy of Ireland the same year. He published a sermon preached at a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of … trade principally arises from the exportation of coal to Ireland, in which more than 100 vessels are employed. The …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1600s Ellioner Reeve. Ref.110 BA1/1/16/29 (1601) To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships … Irelonde, whoe pressed the said Saunders and sent him into Ireland uppon the said service, whoe as yett never retorned …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Geffrey Howsman of Ammersley. Ref.110 BA1/1/25/1 (1616) To the right worshipfull [illegible] [illegible] his majesties … That whereas your worships poore peticioner hath served in Ireland in the late Queene Elizabeths tyme, in which service hee was crewelly wounded and hurt and afterwardes had a pencion in this county the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1617 Phillippe Wilkes. Ref.110 BA1/1/27/71 (1617) To the right worshipfull, the Kinges majesties justices of the … Wilkes Shewinge, that he beinge borne in Ombersley and beinge maryed unto one Christian [Maneley?] borne at … weaver, that where he [ha...?] served in the warres in Ireland eleven yeares being prest out of this [illegible] of …
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 the right worshipfull Sir [illegible] knight lord of the … I had and a [illegible] [presd?] for a souldier into into Ireland [illegible] [illegible] my lyinge upon the ground and …