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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when it was entrusted in turn to Ralph de Normanville and Robert de Cantia, and to Richard (Poore), Bishop of Salisbury. 28 King John stopped there on 12 October 1216 on …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… remained a quarter-sessions town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at Ely. 9 The Shire Hall on the east side of the … Wisbech Advertiser, South Lincs., Cambs. and West Norfolk Journal, issued on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and the Wisbech …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish … MS. SH 552; Wiston Archives, p. 243. Hist. MSS. Com. 9, Salisbury, xviii, p. 290; Cal. S.P. Dom. 1611-18, 71. D.N.B. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, the Chapter of Ely. There is a place of … parish of Downton, union of Alderbury, hundred of Downton, Salisbury and Amesbury, and S. divisions of Wilts; containing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: the tithes have … one of the manors given to the monastery of St. Swithin at Winchester, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, by Bishop …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the … 21 years. 38 Payment ceased thereafter. Thomas, bishop of Winchester ( presumably Thomas Cooper (158494) or Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… predominantly agricultural, with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 … to farm it from the manor house until the 17th century, and agricultural buildings there remained in use by local … including income from fairs and borough courts; Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', 224. For agric. in the townships, below, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at … 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in the late 12th or early … are by A. Crossley. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/4, 78. Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', 302, 245. e.g. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/22. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the 20th century … blanket ind.). Witney Ct. Bks. pp. lxilxii, lxviiilxix; B. Winchester, Tudor Family Portrait (1955), 216, 219; Cal. Pat. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: markets and fairs MARKETS AND FAIRS Witney had a weekly market and two annual fairs … and hiring-fairs. The Middle Ages In 1202 the bishop of Winchester was granted an annual fair at Witney, held on …