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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to it. The vicar was to receive the tithes except those of flax and wool. Land and other tithes were assigned to him for conducting the services at the chapel of Kilhus in Wisbech St. Mary (q.v.). 58 In 1275 Bishop … of Thomas Burwell, who was an official of the Holy Trinity Guild at the beginning of the 16th century. The east side of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Constitutional development of the corporation CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CORPORATION At the same meeting in 1568 it was laid … intention to revive the annual feast of the Holy Trinity Guild, which had been dissolved only twenty years before, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Guild of the holy trinity GUILD OF THE HOLY TRINITY The Guild of the Holy Trinity was much …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was the oldest, the remainder, with the possible exception of the Guild of Holy Trinity, having been founded during the reign of Richard II. Some of them were quite small. The Guild of St. John Baptist, however, though founded only in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… town from at least 1515-16 7 until 1836 when the liberty of the Isle of Ely was abolished. Assizes were held half-yearly, … £17 2 s. 2 d. from the sale of the goods of the Trinity Guild was used for this purpose. See above, p. 256, n. 33. 50 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… AND APPRENTICESHIP As in some other towns the relief of the poor fell not to the churchwardens but to the … who had in any case inherited the function from the guild. The charter had enjoined the 'ten men' to distribute … this sum represented an annual payment by the Holy Trinity Guild, but the records are not now sufficiently complete to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of Wisbech St. Peter, who had become negligent in his duties as schoolmaster, probably indicates the presence of a primary school. The continuous history of primary …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Seals of the guild and the corporation SEALS OF THE GUILD AND THE CORPORATION A 15th-century seal of the Holy …
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 … by some at Witney. 99 Certainly the absence of restrictive guild practices may have contributed to the industry's … an unusually late date for a body organized on traditional guild principles. 101 Its purpose was to regulate and control …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and … Cross. Encroachments on the market place included the guild hall or town hall, recorded from the early 16th century …