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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 …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1825 there was a National Sunday school. 10 The National Society gave a grant towards the building of a new schoolroom at the south-east end of the churchyard c. 1825. 11 By 1833 it had accommodation …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Introduction WORMINGFORD THE ancient parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 … as an inn in 1750, was the meeting place of a friendly society between 1794 and 1849. 87 The one and a half bays on …
A History of the County of Essex
… Church Hall manor in the 15th century, handled transfers of holdings and amerced tenants for trespass and nuisances. … the court baron at about two-yearly intervals; the number of jurors sworn ranged from 2 to 15, but was more often a … from 1764 to 1837 show boys apprenticed by the parish to a merchant, oyster dredger, cord- wainer, mariner, shipowner, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of Wokeing, W. … in consideration of a grant of 200 from the Incorporated Society. A free school is endowed with an annual pension of … by subscription, aided by a grant from the Incorporated Society; and contains some monuments to the Bethune family. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WORTHING The Present article 51 deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of … joined by outsiders, notably Miles Stringer, a London tea merchant, 8 William France, upholsterer to the king, who … the summer and autumn shows of the Worthing Horticultural Society. 49 Glass-house growers also began to take a part in …