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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for enlightened estate management, especially in the matter of housing, and at the present time the limits of … Croft. 7 The Rose and Crown Inn was acquired by the People's Refreshment House Association in 1899 and was one of their … 1748 shows 7 French names among the 28 jurors. 22 Gardner's Directory of 1851 23 shows a few names, such as Barron, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a corporate borough for the first time, cost £260 10 s. 10 d. 46 The burgesses were given the right of perpetual … A schoolmaster was to be provided at a salary of £12 8 s., and an annual distribution of £3 15 s. was to be made to the poor. The bishop was made Visitor of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when the flow of water was improved by cutting Moreton's Leam. Bishop West spent £200 on a new sluice, which was … the Nene for 7 miles downstream from Wisbech to Peter's Point. This would have given a 5-foot fall, but the … £150 in demolishing a bank that was part of Kinderley's improvements (1726). 17 By 1751 it was possible in a dry …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in separate rooms except for meals and for half an hour's exercise before dinner and supper. After the Armada, … Priests were allowed to go into the town. They paid 12 s. a month for their rooms. The castle became a kind of … the Fleet prison was to be adopted. This was defined as 16 s. a week for knight's commons and 10 s. for gentleman's, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a 'ryssyt gowne to make his wyff a cassok' and 30 s. 87 Other typical disputes dealt with (1569-72) concerned … was specially noted, e.g. in November 1568 'there was no matter or cause of controversy dependyng betwene any person …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … the later Middle Ages. 3 Within Witney manor the bishop's liberties and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … was among the wealthiest in the bishop of Winchester's gift, attracting influential non-residents whose prolonged …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 A further appeal to the pope in 1416, against Wolvercote's liability to contribute a third of the cost of repairs to St. Peter's-in-the-East, failed; the judge at the Council of Constance, … confirmed that Wolvercote was a chapel of St. Peter's, ordered the payment of the contribution to the repairs, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… though their parents paid no education rate. The town's principal street, Market Street, was under two highway … levels; street traders could evade the sanitary inspector's jurisdiction by crossing it. Ten authorities had local … the result of their operations being 'chaos' and the town's reputation for dirt and neglect. 22 The creation of …
A History of the County of Essex
… succession his younger brother William (1619) and William's son Richard (1645). 6 In 1824 the next presentation was … duchess of Bedford (d. 1920). 10 In 1930 the duchess's executors sold it to the diocese, for vesting in the … substance, but in 1254 the benefice was valued at only 100 s., 13 and in 1291 it was among the poorest livings, being …