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A History of the County of Sussex
… 85 The living was valued at £10 in 1291, including 13 s. 4 d. in tithes from a ploughland at Truleigh in Edburton. … rectory then owned a portion of tithe corn worth 7 s. a year in Shermanbury, 87 and in 1675 the rector received … and 2 a. in Henfield. 88 The living was valued at £13 1 s. 10 d. net in 1535. 89 On one occasion at least in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the Poor Municipal Charities. The corporation's first almshouses were successors to those founded in the … in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town clerk's use. 78 The corporation provided an alternative house with … life; the almswomen were to receive an allowance of £1 a month each and clothing every other year, and provision was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 Woodstock's assessment of c. 40 s. was paid by only 18 inhabitants, of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the borough's rents, market tolls, and profits of court. 79 In King … after marriage to a widow, became a councillor within a month of his admission in 1652. 51 From the later 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Oxford Baptist, held a meeting in Thomas Boulton's house opposite the Marlborough Arms in Oxford Street, … were maintained chiefly by student pastors from Regent's Park College, Oxford. The church comprised 21 members in … and G. G. Banbury, draper. Banbury campaigned for the town's public cemetery and the abolition of church rates in the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… there were 30 papists served by a visiting priest once a month, 82 but in 1743 and 1750 only eight were recorded. 83 … cement-rendered, with a small bellcot. 97 The minister's residence is attached. There is a burial ground, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… east - west street. They include Dawbins, Jacobs, Tassel's Cottage, no. 4 Vicarage Road, and Apple Tree Cottage. … Sir John Hody (d. 1441), chief justice of the king's bench. 6 Fifty horsemen, a foot company from the Bridgwater … of Som. (1646), Times Whirligig (1646/7), and England's Changeling (1659), is said to have come from Woolavington. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 … 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 6. 18. 9., and in the patronage of Mrs. L. Flood … Green Man, at Blackheath, on the first Thursday in every month. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at …
The Environs of London
… Manor of Woolwich, in the early part of Edward the First's reign 8. In the year 1324, the manor of Woolwich belonged … know not what became of it immediately after Lady Hastings's death. Philipott says, that the Boughtons sold it to the … 55. The ill-fated Royal George, lost at Portsmouth in the month of August 1782, with Admiral Kempenfelt and the greater …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Redbornestoke, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Bedford; containing 1122 inhabitants. It … elevation. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 13. 6. 8., and has a net income of 236; the … Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's-Barton, union, and E. division of the county, of …