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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… AND APPRENTICESHIP As in some other towns the relief of the poor fell not to the churchwardens but to the … charity. 23 This sum was supplemented in the latter part of the 16th century, by weekly collections from householders, … life 'the weekly payment for the collection for the pore of Wisbich'. 26 The town stock consisted of the capital of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along … diverted back again soon afterwards by the blocking of the Creek. 3 No attempt seems to have been made to reopen … Draining of Fens, 137-9. N. Kinderley, Anct. and Present State of the Navig. of . . . Wisbech (1751), 70. Oldham, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are the first sect to be … visited their brethren at Wisbech at the invitation of John Milles, a member of the Wisbech congregation, of … at least have had their feet, and tongues and hands in a state of greater quietude and not less insincere'. 26 Trans. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to the extent that two journeys were made by members of the Corporation 'concerning the King's Majesties … and in 1640 was dissuaded from attending a Commission of Sewers in the castle. A crowd of soldiers however … 73 During 1643 the castle and town were put into a state of defence. £11 12 s. 6 d. was spent on ironwork for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Worthies WORTHIES The most famous native of Wisbech is Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), the slavery … to the town; William Godwin the elder (1756-1836), author of Political Justice, and father of Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley's wife; James Pegge ( fl. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … 1882 and 1891. A further 315 a. on the north-west side of the parish including Brown-hill farm were 'transferred …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Wistow WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the former civil parish of Newton Harcourt which is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on the … with a semicircular chancel: being in a very dilapidated state, it was repaired and enlarged in 1828, when anew tower …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de … of Cliffe co. York. Nicolson and Burn (vol. i, p. 230) state that "The Laybourns continued at Witherslack in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 32 s. 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at what may both have been early crossings of the river Windrush. 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near …