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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… lose it: nor she to pay it: the eldest of the poor widow's 3 children was borne with a rupture and lies almost … the county of Worcester, hath bene obliged to pay toward's the mayntenance of his grandchildren liveing att Bengworth … tax 3 pounds - 5 shillings - 0 pence poll 0 - 8 - 8 to my Lady Sands 1 - 4 - 0 to Master Ashwin 2 - 0 - 0 for repayres …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… viz. that rent which the canons had of the gift of the lady Bertr. de Furnivall his mother during her life. 28 … by the abbat of Crokesden: his said wife Joane, the lady of Alveton, died in child bed 6 of the Nones of Octob. … therefore take a cursorary review, after Leland and Tanner's account. " Werkensop a pretty market town of two streets, …
A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in … a monk, told of a dragon who threatened Richard Waldegrave's territory near Sudbury but fled into the Mere when pursued. …
A History of the County of Essex
… a week for c. 20 people by the minister of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion chapel in Fordham, 2 and another cottage was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … the family of Egerton. Worsley is eminently celebrated in connexion with inland navigation. In the 10th of George II., … flows the river Don. It was the occasional residence of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who, in her description of the …
A History of the County of York
… and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James … on the Roman tradition in the north but he has no known connexion with York. Oswald, upon his victory in 634, called … there was another choral mass, usually the Mass of Our Lady, which by the end of the 15th century or the beginning …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's will dated 1860. Part of the land was sold c. 1922, and the … Scheme of 1972; £4.80 was paid out in 1975. St. Elizabeth's alms-houses were founded in 1859 by Alfred Burges of … About 1920 John Pearson of Worthing established Pearson's Retreat Cottage Homes for poor, elderly inhabitants of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… when a parish was formed out of Broadwater and St. George's parishes. 83 The benefice was called a perpetual curacy … became a vicarage in 1868. 10 With help from Queen Anne's Bounty a house for the incumbent was built in Westbrooke by … with baptistry, aisles, transepts, and a chancel with a Lady Chapel, sacristy, and vestry. A choir vestry was added …
A History of the County of Sussex
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES Manor Court books of Worthing manor's court baron survive from 1544 to 1925. 91 The court's jurisdiction was presumably over that part of Worthing … the jurisdiction of Broadwater manor, 92 but Broadwater's leet jurisdiction may have included Worthing. In the late …
A History of the County of Sussex
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, after an unsuccessful attempt to establish itself …