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A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part of the parish, is first mentioned in the charter of doubtful … 25 which he did early in 1554. 26 Whetstone was a rich man, with estates in several counties He died in 1557 or …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned this … number of animals suggests that the rector was a man of substance, but in 1254 the benefice was valued at only …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… Female Primary occupation medical physician (Practitioner of physic) Period of medical practice 1586-1612 Address of Hogginton 1596. of … had given mithridate in aqua coelestis (1:6) to a young man in Woolwich Street, fevered, who nearly died of it. She …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in plurality with Albourne, 79 and in 1978 it became part of the united benefice of Henfield with Shermanbury and Woodmancote, the parishes … his own money 'to make it of a doghole a habitation for a man'. 94 Between 1711 and 1724 it was again 'beautified and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, and in 1086 of William de Braose by William son of Rannulf, 35 who also … Suss. vii. 147. In 1341 Nichole's heirs claimed that the man. had been her portion of her brother's inheritance from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … M. Verney, iii. 313, 428; iv. 243-5; Marshall, Woodstock Man. 446; Gardner, Dir Oxon. (1852), 695-6, which wrongly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … and cloth trades were important. In the 1550s a Woodstock man who was neither a woollen nor a staple merchant was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose … council disfranchised an evicted town clerk and in 1614 a man who had insulted the mayor. 66 The freeman's oath in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 … a prolonged and expensive struggle. In 1705 the duke's man, General William Cadogan defeated one of Abingdon's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … amalgamated but in 1939 only one farm was over 150 a., one man described himself as a poultry farmer and two as …