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A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th century. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Godstow was returned as a recusant in the 1590s, 64 and his influence may have encouraged the eight other … the early 17th century. 65 Matthew Cheriton, a freeholder, and his uncle Edmund Reynolds of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, who … recusants, as were the Nappers of Holywell, freeholders and farmers of the great tithes of Wolvercote. Cheriton …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one … described as BLUE - GREY, BROAD, BROWN, COARSE, DRAB, FRENCH, GREEN, NARROW, NEW, RED - GREY, SHORT, WHITE, YARD …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the antiquities that have been found are, foundations and ruins of buildings, fragments of statues, stags' horns, … of the Lower Empire, a coin of Adrian, one of Lucilla, and a noble tessellated pavement, of which an engraving was … brought from one of the monasteries suppressed at the French revolution. At the east end of the south aisle is an …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 … The masonry is said to have been carried out by French masons and every possible use was made of stone rather …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… There were 4 Presbyterians, 2 'Anabaptists', and 5 Quakers recorded at Woodchester in 1735 and in 1750, but no group had a chapel in the parish. 4 A house was registered for protestant dissenters in 1758 and a number of houses were used by unidentified groups in …
The Environs of London
… hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by … lives, 1645; (collected 8s. 10d.). Poor English Irish Protestants, fled and driven away out of the kingdom of … of Barnstaple in Devonshire, 1647; (collected 17s.). Poor Protestants, driven out of Ireland, 1647; (collected on the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The … is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to … extending a little over 3 miles from north to south, and from east to west about 2 miles in the north and 1 mile …
A History of the County of Essex
… does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its incumbent has always been styled a rector. But part … composition was made in 1224 between the abbot of Waltham and the rector of Woodford to settle certain divisions of tithe and other matters, although no mention was then made of the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WOODMANCOTE Woodmancote lies north of the South Downs and south-east of Henfield. 50 In 1881 it comprised 2,239 a. and in 1971 it had 905 ha. (2,236 a.). 51 In 1985 some land in the south-east was transferred to Albourne and Poynings parishes. 52 Woodmancote ancient parish, with …