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A History of the County of Essex
… rates was not always used for church repairs; payments for poor-relief, vestry dinners, or killing vermin are found in … it became increasingly difficult to find materials for the poor to work on. Outdoor relief largely ceased between 1786 … it became necessary to subsidize food and fuel for the poor, in 1796 by means of voluntary subscriptions and in 1801 …
A History of the County of Essex
… of the church, which in 1920 became the convent of the Poor Clares (Colettines). 78 It is a late-18th-century … Tuffs, Wanstead and Woodford, 105; inf. from Abbess of Poor Clare Convent. Inf. from Superior of Convent of Holy …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres, chiefly arable land, and the soil generally of very poor quality. The Clarence railway passes through. The … consols., of which the dividends are distributed among the poor at Christmas. Woodhorn-Demesne WOODHORN-DEMESNE, a … for the support of a school, for distribution among the poor of this chapelry and that of Quorndon, and for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… church is apparently of c. 1250. The house was always a poor one, and came to an end in 1507 by the death of the last …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… added early in the 17th century, and has four curvilinear 'Dutch' gables, one of which crowns a small projecting bay. At …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by 1928, supplementing wells, some deep, which gave a poor yield. 28 By 1974 there was a reservoir north-west of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a ruin. At the inclosure, 20 acres were allotted to the poor. Woodrising (St. Nicholas) WOODRISING ( St. Nicholas), a … from Wigton; containing 745 inhabitants. A school for the poor is partly supported by the interest of 3000 raised by … and there are various bequests for the benefit of the poor generally, which are distributed amongst them in money, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Charity for the poor CHARITY FOR THE POOR. Thomas Beard of Wick Farmhouse by will dated 1667 left £200 for the benefit of the poor of Woodmancote and Albourne, to which £27 was added by …
A History of the County of Sussex
… ceiled, floored, and beautified. 33 The building was in poor condition in 1811. 34 Between 1869 and 1873 35 it was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… ceased by 1875. 58 W.S.R.O., Ep. II/14A (1808). Educ. of Poor Digest, 973. Educ. Enq. Abstract, 985. Nat. Soc. …