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A History of the County of Essex
… Essex, 16001836 (Woodford Hist. Soc. x), 36. In 1908 Mrs. Masters kept a servants' registry office: Kelly's Dir. Essex, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and there seem to have been only two or three established masters in the earlier 18th century: 70 Alderman Samuel Heath … John Eldridge (d. 1824) were all steel workers. 87 Other masters included Alderman Thomas Grantham, grocer and steel …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as the school. 3 The corporation appointed and dismissed masters, insisting that they should be resident even when, as … century, they were incumbents of neighbouring parishes. 4 Masters were expected to be ordained, 5 and several combined … as well as of divine knowledge'. 10 Less satisfactory masters included Mr. Dubois, said in 1738 to be treating the …