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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One … Thames, on the opposite side of which, in the county of Essex, is a detached part of the parish. It comprises one …
The Environs of London
… to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on … the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the distance of nine miles from London. The parish is … where it extends on the opposite side of the river into Essex, being there bounded by Barking, and Barking-creek …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of Edward III. to the convent of Our Lady St. Mary and St. Michael, at Stamford-Baron. Wootton (St. Mary) … Mayo, in 1747, bequeathed to the incumbent and wardens, in trust for the poor, a close called the Farm, or Church-close, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was in use in the 14th century. 93 In 1300 the land between the eastern arms at the north and south ends of the parish, which either was or might soon … of Wootton Rivers. It and an associated charity, the Carey trust, had ceased to exist by 1994. 86 This article was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, … perceiving a considerable reinforcement, under the Earl of Essex, advancing to the assistance of the parliamentarians, … valleys, red-sandstone rocks, and picturesque hills. The turnpike-road between Bridgnorth and Wolverhampton passes …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… 1203 (Innocent III, Cal. Letters no. 472). Sampson Can. and treas. of Bayeux, and king's chapl. (Will. Malmesbury, G.P. p. 289; Regesta 1 … Wednesday. Cf. Cart. Worc. p. lii n. 9. See G.F.L. p. 531. Middlesex; see Fasti 1066-1300 1 (1968) 64 n. 3. Usually …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Elizabeths tyme, in which service hee was crewelly wounded and hurt and afterwardes had a pencion in this county the space of six … countye of Worcester, where shee and her said husband gave trust and creditt to many poore distressed prisoners, hopinge …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of our poore (to whom we pay 4 shillings per pound) and all manner of provisions soe excessive deer, by means … the poore are reduced soe low in their very smale estates and mean imployments, that they are not able to mainteine … had been lost, for there was none in the parish that would trust her but that one man: and now she owes him 19 shilling …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… majesty intituled an Act for Reliefe of Insolvent Debtors and for the More Easie Discharge of Bankrupts out of Execucion after their Certificates Allowed and by virtue of an order thereupon made by the justices of … in the county of Worcester [labourer?] carpenter in trust for himselfe and the rest of the creditors of the said …