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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. … whose hands are hereto subscribed being the churchwardens and overseers of the poore and other inhabitants of the parish of Saint Clement lyeing …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of Lower Mitton in this county is a very ancient building and now in so ruinous state and much too small for the inhabitants of the said chapelry … much concerned for the safety of the said prison having no assistant allowed to assist him in his charge and the present …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the above prison being continually very full of prisoners and many of them for very capitol crimes your petitioner is … much concerned for the safety of the said prison having no assistant allowed to assist him in his charge and the present salary so inadequate to the trust that your …
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. (929 ha.). 33 The Stour forms the northern boundary, and the eastern, southern, and western ones follow mainly … From 1877 Chambers's horse-drawn omnibus ran between the railway station at Bures (Suff.) (opened in 1849) and …
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. 34 p., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes … 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 York
… Roman canon of the mass, the system of daily offices and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's … victory in 634, called upon the Scottish bishops for help and so brought Aidan to Lindisfarne but it is doubtful how … worship may have persisted even after the Synod of Whitby and the Council of Cloveshoo, for Alcuin, in a letter to the …
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 … Building Society in 1957, and Lloyds Bank registrar's department in 1959. 5 Other insurance companies moved to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by a road following the line of the modern road, and by a footpath leading north from the north end of the … Street. The line of the latter was still followed by roads and a footpath in 1978. The Worthing-Broadwater road led to … station, 79 and the second in 1845, shortly before the railway reached Worthing. 80 In 1791 81 and 1812 82 the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… List of maps and plans Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. … Fruit Growers Association had obtained a reduction in railway charges. 57 Special loading facilities for fruit were … in High Street between 1837 and 1963, 17 and Bentalls department store, founded in 1875 18 and surviving in 1978. …