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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on the … commuted for 820, the vicarial tithes for 285, and a rent-charge of 75 is paid to an impropriator; there is a handsome …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 2,100 acres, occupies a shallow dry valley on the E. bank of the R. Allen; it is entirely on Chalk, between 100 ft. and … sea-level. Land at East Hemsworth (18) was formerly part of Shapwick. Domesday mentions Wichemetune and two … but East Hemsworth retains extensive earthwork remains of a former village. New Town, about mile N.E. of Witchampton …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de Bethum (125156), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 … town, and citizen of London, who endowed it with a rent-charge of 63; the buildings comprise a spacious schoolroom, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in … Sundays, 180200 people receiving loaves in rota; a 4 rent charge was distributed in sixpences on Good Friday to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and stall-rents, seem not always to have mirrored those of the town generally: during the 13th and 16th centuries, both periods of apparent growth and prosperity, market and fair income declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading took place outside the formal market …
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, learnt to read there. 1 … until her death in 1679, adding 13 to the annual rent charge. Like many similar schools of the period, Witney …
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 … William Blake (d. 1695) of Cogges, who left a 30 s. rent-charge towards its upkeep. 209 The building, 'much out of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most franchises seem to have … the keeping of the child which she has to keep at the charge of the town'. 184 During the early 17th century, as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The estate was … estate given by Abingdon abbey to Brihthelm, bishop of Wells. 1 The Crown recovered the Witney estate before … the benefice of St Michael's, Winchester, an annual rent charge of 25 from the manor, still payable in the 1920s when …