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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… feareth to set in hand to build there as is appointed by reason that only twoo yong men being freeholders of and in … Sunday last past beeing the 16 of this instant October by reason that the mound of the said Nicholas Terrett did lye … your pettitioner is not able to worke for her livinge, by reason of griefe that your poor pettitioner hath taken for …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… him when another dayes imployment should be appointed by reason that they wer prevented by the wettnes and raynie … a Bell doth pretend himself to bee the inholder, and the reason is for that he was supprest by the justice of assize, … growne full of earth and yeoven with the high wayes. By reason whereof the watercourses are stopped and cannott have …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… are very infirme and not able to helpe themselves) and by reason of her poverty rendred unable to rent any house within …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in this county Humbly sheweth That your peticioner by reason of his great age and hard [labour?] (being 78 years of … for many yeares past have beene very great sufferers by reason of many young people now inhabiting within our parish … since, till of late, that he is grown into decay by reason of bad trading and his [small?] [illegible] and is at …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… since, but rather lessened, your poore petitioner by reason of his poverty having been forced to [sell?] the land … doe certifie, that wee did not consent and aprove of by reason that the house wherein hee now dwelleth served that … other that is more fit may bee nominated to serve it, by reason that there bee suffeecient men that have bin …
A History of the County of Sussex
… much more slowly developed for building than the west. One reason was its liability to flooding, which was increased …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… that it was the site of Pengwern 57 - was perhaps one reason why the manor had, or claimed, rights over a large …