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A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … circles who acquired several canonries, a prebend at Westminster, and the headmastership of Westminster School. Freind's request that Witney might pass …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th century, reflected the … a new chapel on Davenport Road with an attached hall and assembly room, which served new housing estates west of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. The advowson of the rectory descended with the lordship of Wivenhoe manor, the lords presenting regularly, except in … 3 and in 1890 when Robert Cantrell presented as guardian of N. C. C. Lawton, the younger, a minor. Lawton later sold …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. E.) from Chepstow; …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the … the roof, which is supported with arches something like Westminster-Hall, has a grand appearance. The screen, in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Roger d'Ivri held WOLVERCOTE in 1086, and Godfrey held of him. 61 There is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held … were sold to the city of Oxford by the dean and chapter of Westminster, trustees of the charity, in 1938. 80 Most of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 58 and the school opened in 1878. A continuing shortage of school places was relieved by enlargements of the board and National schools in the 1880s and 1890s and … The enrolment of 222 students at Oakengates Coffee Palace assembly rooms in 1892 was the beginning of continuous …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … lecturer of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, 1641; one of the assembly of divines; rector of St. Mildred Poultry, removed … Christ Church, matric. 23 July, 1656, student 1656 from Westminster school, B.A. 1659, M.A. 1662 (incorporated at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … their names in the later 13th century from the surnames of the families which had owned them from c. 1200. 57 DITTON … manors. Cal. Pat. 13916, 300. Feud. Aids, vi. 407; Westminster Abbey Mun. 13890; Cal. Close, 14059, 364. Cal. …