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A History of the County of Gloucester
… for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the lordship of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted … which deer-poachers in the Forest of Dean were conveyed to Bristol c. 1282. 23 Naval frigates are said to have been … 1872 to 1876, 35 and a little farther up the Wye a timber-merchant made a quay and warehouse in 1851. 36 It was in use …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… estate worth £180 in 1714. 77 Although in 1682 the names of 68 persons who did not attend church were given, only the … only ten and two persons respectively were named, some of whom were Quakers. 78 Nevertheless the Roman Catholic … 1833-3 with a residence, after the Revd. C. F. Ramftler of Bristol had been invited by local inhabitants to hold …
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 … 15th and early 16th centuries; one farmer was a Bridgwater merchant. 17 From 1566 it was let to Robert Dudley, earl of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it … much to promote the trade. The Spetchley station of the Bristol and Birmingham railway is only four miles east of the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Noble Sir, Though I am unknowne unto you, yett the report of your courtious behaviour towards all gentlemen in … West Indies; where I thought I had shott the very gulfe of affliction, butt coming lately from thence (in a shipp … regard to my misery, (although I am become the very object of pittie) soe that in my jorney hyther, I have tasted of the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1670s Inhabitants of Bretforton. Ref.110 BA1/1/115/27 (1671) Wigorn [com?] To the right worshippfull his majesties justices of the peace for the said county in quarter sessions … Wee whose handes are hereunto subscribed inhabitantes of Bratforton in the said county, doe certifie by these …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of meadow, pasture wood two leu. long, three quar. broad. In … 35l. reserved upon the demise made to William Chastelyn, merchant of London, to hold to him and his successours in …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Worlingham Worlingham. Ulf, a free-man of Gurth, the brother of Harold, held Worlingham at the time of the Survey, and … gave birth to Dr. Thomas Gooch, successively Bishop of Bristol, Norwich, and Ely; Master of Caius College, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable arable … from the Middle Ages. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of demesne ploughs increased from 3 to 4, and the men … Colchester. 76 About 1700 Christopher Whichcote, a London merchant, sold land in Wormingford. 77 In 1778 there were …