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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… there are many poore men to the number of thirty persons and upwardes who lye there, some upon their behaviour and the most part of the rest upon matters of small or noe … wold unchristianlike be starved to death with hunger cold and nakednes, some of them alsoe haveing many poore children …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… here delivered of a bastard sonne who prooveth impotent, and shortly after the said Clarke brought a bond and delivered it to the oversee minister of the said parishe … was then a prisoner in the custody of the said Clarke and or since [illegible] convicted of felony, soe that by …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) … the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your worships have been pleased at some … unto one Nathaniell Maund of the same town, mason, and likewise at the last sessions, you were pleased to grant …
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, … Worming- ford failed to derive the economic benefit that a railway in the parish would have brought. By 1929 there were …
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. … From 1877 Chambers's horse-drawn omnibus ran between the railway station at Bures (Suff.) (opened in 1849) and … 12 council houses provided by Lexden and Wins- tree Rural District Council from 1923, but in 1995 open space remained …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the tythings of Burgham, Perry-Hill, West-End, and Wyke, 1424 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6795 a. 3 r. … 146 inhabitants. This township is situated in the district of Cleveland, on the southern acclivity of Teesdale, … fossils of leaves and plants. The London and Brighton railway passes through the parish. The living is a rectory, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of the town as it was enlarged by … epidemic had cost the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway £15,000; 63 the resort did not recover for several … staying visitors. Besides the Southern Railway many coach companies ran day excursions from London to Worthing at that …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing and associated parishes WORTHING AND ASSOCIATED PARISHES Worthing, a municipal borough from … in the country. The modern borough, since 1974 the district, of Worthing comprises five former parishes and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 27 Humphrys' alms-houses were founded in 1858 by Robert and Ann Humphrys in memory of their son Harry, for Anglican … land, a £78 yearly rent-charge to pay weekly allowances, and £1,000 stock for maintenance. Two more houses were built … By 1934 it had become the nurses' home of the Worthing District Nursing Association, and it was let to the county …
A History of the County of Sussex
… CHURCHES. A chapel at Worthing was recorded in 1291, 73 and in 1410 was being used for mass. 74 Two chaplains, … ease until 1894 when a parish was formed out of Broadwater and St. George's parishes. 83 The benefice was called a … GEORGE, off Church Walk, was consecrated in 1868, 29 and a district assigned to it from Broadwater. 30 The patronage of …