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Survey of London Monograph
… Windsor Herald WINDSOR HERALD The office of Windsor is said to have been instituted for the service of the Order of the Garter, but if, as seems probable, 'Andrew Windsor …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, but … the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech area are largely absent, 2 potatoes, cereals, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are the first sect to be … visited their brethren at Wisbech at the invitation of John Milles, a member of the Wisbech congregation, of … a flourishing Sunday school and also the General Baptist Academy. 97 Three years later a plot of land in Crescent …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain Mr. Belson of Wisbech St. Peter, who had become negligent in his duties as schoolmaster, probably indicates the presence of a primary school. The continuous history of primary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, … masters, a visiting drill master, and a resident female music teacher, the school aiming in the 1880s to 'assist the … Early (180177) who attended John Burrel's Church Green academy. 66 Some private day schools provided elementary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … gave open-air summer concerts, and a Witney and District Music Festival, which originated as a fund-raising event …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th century, reflected the … Street and at Woodgreen at first continued, accompanied by music from the schoolroom organ, which was hoisted onto a …
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 … paid 3 s. a week for 24 weeks for instruction in church music. 41 J. G. Corsellis was rector himself from 1826 until …
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 … in 1672. 70 Samuel Wood, who ran a small nonconformist academy, served as minister from 1709 until 1719 during which … 1805 some Independents worshipped in a house at the corner of West Street and High Street; no trace of the first chapel …
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 … front and a new short hall was formed; c. 1970 a large music room was added on the east. Tudor Cottage opposite …