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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of our poore (to whom we pay 4 shillings per pound) and all manner of provisions soe excessive deer, by means … the poore are reduced soe low in their very smale estates and mean imployments, that they are not able to mainteine … to be a place of religious worship for dissenting protestants Richard Dipple Humphry Potter James Lacy William …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. … whose hands are hereto subscribed being the churchwardens and overseers of the poore and other inhabitants of the … for a house appointed for [religio...?] [illegible] for protestants dissenting from the [church of?] England …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Dowler, Joshua Tilt, Benjamin Watson, Benjamin Pearsall and Francis Homfrays, protestant dissenters. Ref.110 … (1739) Worcestershire To Henry Townshend esquire and the rest of the worshipfull justices of the peace of the … Dowler Joshua Tilt Benjamin Watson Benjamin Pearsall and Francis Homfrays being protestant dissenters do humbly …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Sheweth That your peticioner is a protestant dissenter and that a licence was granted by this court at Easter sessions 1739 allowing and appointing your peticioner's dwelling house in the town … standing at the corner of Ednell [illegible] Lane there and late in the possession of John Freeman and John Williams …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the sixteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and [fifty one?] [illegible] We whose names are hereunto … now or late in the occupation of Thomas Shelfield and James Wooley as a place of meeting or religious worship for us and others a congregation of protestant dissenters under the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of Lower Mitton in this county is a very ancient building and now in so ruinous state and much too small for the inhabitants of the said chapelry … therein occasioned by the great increase of families and inhabitants at Stower-Port which place is within the said …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… see the conquerour made it) had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and … where he wan so many battles, and was so formidable to the French during the twenty four years of his most glorious … after whose death Burdeaux was presently taken by the French, and an end made of that war, and the civil wars begun …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable arable farming was recorded from the Middle Ages. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of demesne ploughs increased from 3 to 4, and the men continued to hold 2 ploughs, suggesting a slight …
A History of the County of Essex
… bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 miles south-east of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a. (929 ha.). 33 The Stour forms the northern boundary, and the eastern, southern, and western ones follow mainly field boundaries, but …
A History of the County of Essex
… the Lexden Classis in the 1640s, left Wormingford c. 1669 and became a Quaker missionary. 97 In 1676 there was one … Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion chapel in Fordham, 2 and another cottage was licensed for Baptist services held by … cottage, reported attendances of 23 in the morning and 39 in the afternoon, compared with average attendances of …