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A History of the County of Gloucester
… estate worth £180 in 1714. 77 Although in 1682 the names of 68 persons who did not attend church were given, only the … only ten and two persons respectively were named, some of whom were Quakers. 78 Nevertheless the Roman Catholic … 9. Hockaday Abs. ccccxvi; T. Bright, Rise of Nonconf. in Forest of Dean, 36. G.D.R. vol. 383, no. cxxxvii. Hockaday …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county … its situation is a lofty sloping bank rising from a forest-like seclusion; and the landscape of mountain, meadow, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the western boundary passed through the royal forest of Wychwood. The landscape varies from the flat …
A History of the County of Oxford
… part Wootton Hundred (Southern Part) THE SOUTHERN part of Wootton hundred 1 covered 35,473 a. (14,362 ha.) divided … towns. The area, lying partly on the limestone uplands of central Oxfordshire, partly on the flat river gravels of … at Witney and Oxford. Many parishes lay within the royal forest of Wychwood and some, notably North Leigh, had the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix … woodland and was defined as a southern tail of Savernake forest. It remained part of the forest in 1330, when the land …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it … part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a place of strength and security. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve … speedye aides in this their distressed estates, in tender regard therefore, of their said miserable estates, and … to geeve them any releeffe: soe desiringe you to have regard and comiseracion of the poore estate of those …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… (1610) To the right worshipfull, his majesties justices of the peace for the countie of Wigorn. Whereas it was youre … of theis chardges aforesaid and other paymentes as also in regard that the parishe of Sainte Johns is of an other … we hold fytt in duty to signify unto your worshippes; in regard of his honeste behaviour and the convenyency of the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1613 The inhabitants of Bayton. Ref.110 BA1/1/20/58 (1613) To the right worshippfull the Kinges majesties justices of peace in the countye of Worcester. May yt please your … as for Moo the said Mooreley, and his wief, they doe not regard the lawes of this realme for they have bene absent …