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A History of the County of Oxford
… in Woodstock. 59 Timothy Hunt, a Baptist glover from Worcester, helped in 1820-1 to register two meeting houses in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of St. Cuthbert, without the limits of the city of Wells, union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. …
A Dictionary of London
… a wool merchant's sign. Woolsack Alley See Cutler Street. Worcester House William, earl of Worcester, was seised of the capital messuage called … up on waste land and may have grown over and about the City Wall in early days. The City Wall ran along the north …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… after 1546 when John Conway, steward of Henry, Earl of Worcester, obtained a lease of two-thirds of the Grange and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and rectory were granted in 1537 to Henry, Earl of Worcester, 97 who held them at his death in 1549. 98 Henry, … John Ball, vicar 1562-4, was chaplain to the Countess of Worcester and neither resided nor provided a curate, so that …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the grant of the Tintern Abbey estates to the Earl of Worcester, and up to the late 19th century most of the land … was begun c. 1650, after the sequestration of the Earl of Worcester's estate, but the process was reversed by Cromwell, … Weir in the grant of the abbey's lands to Henry, Earl of Worcester, in 1537. 18 The fisheries of Brockweir (which lay …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1752. 85 In 1685 there was a house at Brookend called the 'Worcester's Head', 86 which was presumably the same as that …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1536, and was granted in 1537 to Henry Somerset, Earl of Worcester, together with other estates in Gloucestershire and … passed to his son Henry Somerset, 16 created Marquess of Worcester in 1643. With his son Edward, Lord Herbert, he was … 17 The manor was restored to Edward Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, in 1660, 18 and passed to his son Henry (d. 1698), …
The Environs of London
… Hussey, 1714; William Hussey, his son, Solicitor for the City of London, 1776; John Smith, Esq. (son of Robert), 1730; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having … repairing the Roman fortress, or erecting another in this city, which by the Saxons was called Wigornaceastre, made the …