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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. The advowson of the rectory descended with the lordship of Wivenhoe manor, the lords presenting regularly, except in … 3 and in 1890 when Robert Cantrell presented as guardian of N. C. C. Lawton, the younger, a minor. Lawton later sold …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east bank of the river Colne where it widens to form an estuary, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT From 1246 the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their … 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held at least once a year, with usually 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… at Wivenhoe, which prob- ably met in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for Presbyterian … 1805 some Independents worshipped in a house at the corner of West Street and High Street; no trace of the first chapel remained. They were led by ministers from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. E.) from Chepstow; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Francis Charlton still owed the Crown the 'king's rent' of £2 6 s. 8 d. for the maintenance of a minister, 51 but before his death in 1642 he may have … a lay tenant. 56 Nevertheless there was apparently glebe of 9 a. in the 1690s, 57 and in the early 18th century the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the … coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By 1847 only 6 a. of wood remained in Wombridge and none in Priorslee. 10 … presumably once open-field land, lay 500 metres south-east of Wombridge church in 1847. 11 Four or five ploughteams …