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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Church CHURCH A vicarage was instituted in or before 1252, when Bishop Northwold presented William de … to him for conducting the services at the chapel of Kilhus in Wisbech St. Mary (q.v.). 58 In 1275 Bishop Balsham … on the north where they are charged with the arms of England, Canterbury, and Ely and the emblems of St. Peter and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… above, seems to have been the outbreak of plague. In December 1584 a balance of 11 s. 6 d. was allowed to John Robynson 'collector' for his pains in collecting money during the previous six weeks 'to be payd … for 1841- 9 (average) as compared with 20 per 1,000 in England and Wales as a whole. For the cholera year (1849) the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… WISBECH Wisbech is the largest and only corporate town in the Isle, and the nodal point for the whole marshland area … of the Well Stream, which divided Wisbech from Walsoken in Norfolk, to the far end of Wisbech High Fen beyond … neighbourhood as the chief market-gardening area in England, and the development of ancillary industries (e.g. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at Ely. 9 The Shire Hall on the east side of the Market Place was pulled down in 1810; it was replaced by the existing Sessions House and … was left unconsecrated, so that no division into Church of England and Nonconformist portions was necessary. 55 A …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… definite indication of the growth of commercial interests in Wisbech is the grant (1190) by Richard I to the tenants of the manor of freedom from toll in all fairs and markets throughout England. 64 A generation later, one of the free tenants of …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… 1555) Period of medical practice 1555-1599 Place of birth England (?Burford, Oxon) Date of death 1599 Address ?Barts … (?bro Robert's admon 1568). Known London address Tower (in prison) Parish Tower Liberty = St Peter ad Vincula (in the Bailey) Ward Tower (Street) Date 1553 Barts (?) Parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Witcham (St. Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, … of George III., was received here on her first arrival in England. The town is pleasantly situated near the confluence … 1181, a monastery, said to be the first establishment of Carthusians in England, was founded by Henry II., in honour …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not to become largely a dormitory town, a recurrent theme in the second half of the 20th century. 1 The arrival in 1950 of the engineering firm Smiths' of England, attracting both local employees and large numbers of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the … the period some 3540 per cent of recorded trades in the borough were associated with the cloth industry, with … by then the town was already 'the most eminent in England' for blanket-making, producing not only 'famously …
A History of the County of Oxford
… setbacks, seems to have thrived. Fairs were founded in 1202 and 1231, the borough was extended in 121920, and there seems no doubt that by the 1270s Witney … Witney Ct. Bks. p. lx. E. M. Carus Wilson and O. Coleman, England's Export Trade 12751547 (1963), 1389. Witney Ct. Bks. …