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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Later history of the castle LATER HISTORY OF THE CASTLE Secretary John Thurloe, who purchased the manor during the … that the castle had for many years been in a ruinous state. York ( recte Yorke) Place commemo rates the bishop …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… occurs c. 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the … Andrews and John Bancks, 59 and later purchased by Secretary Thurloe. 60 At the Restoration it was returned to … 73 b-81 b. B.M. Add. MS. 6165, pp. 272-5. The depressed state of Wisbech revealed by this survey, as compared with …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is held by prescription. In 1657 John Thurloe, as lord of the manor, was granted a fortnightly market at Wisbech by letters patent. 73 In the 1840's Wisbech was one of the largest if not actually the largest corn market in the … river. 88 Two years later, however, it was in a dangerous state from defective workmanship, and John Lewin, the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… town from at least 1515-16 7 until 1836 when the liberty of the Isle of Ely was abolished. Assizes were held half-yearly, … books for common use in a room over the church porch; Secretary Thurloe contributed eighty-one volumes to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Officials of the corporation OFFICIALS OF THE CORPORATION The town bailiff, as stated above, first appears as an agent of the Corporation rather than as its presiding member. He …
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. …