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Petitions to the Cheshire Quarter Sessions
… Cheshire Quarter Sessions: 1678 Richard Jervis of Nantwich, aged 60 years. QJF 105/4/146 (1678) To the right … Robert Oakell, a poor prisoner for debt in Chester castle. QJF 106/1/121 (1678) To the right worshipfull his … Oak Oakell a pooer distressed prisoner for debtt in the castle of Chester in all humility Sheweth that your …
Petitions to the Cheshire Quarter Sessions
… Cheshire Quarter Sessions: 1698 Anne Stube of Witton, widow. QJF 125/4/8 (1698) [Com?] Cestria To his … a weeke Richard Wood senior, a prisoner for debt in the castle of Chester. QJF 126/1/2 (1698) To Sir Thomas … of Richard Wood senior a pore distressed prisoner in the castle of Chester for debt Humbly sheweth that your worshipps …
Petitions to the Cheshire Quarter Sessions
… maintenance; elce I doe beleeve I had perisht through want of both food, and rayment sometime since; I hope sir, the … of the peace held for the county of Chester at the castle of Chester on Tuesday the twenty eighth day of April … of Joseph Allen a debtor confined in the goal of the castle of Chester aforesaid Most humbly sheweth That your …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Mary), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Edmonton, hundred and county of Hertford, 8 miles (S. by … his son, Edward of Carnarvon, then an infant, in Chester Castle. Richard II., by an act of parliament which was … elected; and the assizes for the county are held in the castle. The powers of the county debtcourt of Chester, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… (b)V N.W.) Chesterton is a small parish on the S. bank of the Nene, 4 m. W. of Peterborough. The Roman station and the church are the … Roman a(1). The Castles, an earthwork, in the N. angle of the parish, roughly hexagonal in plan and rather more than …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for £13 8 s. 4 d., besides £15 blanch in cash. Most of its arable, 12 out of 16 ploughlands, was apparently then … them. 64 In the south-west corner of Chesterton the Castle dole just outside the castle ditches, 22 a. c. 1540, 65 was still then reckoned as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Chesterton Introduction Chesterton THE ancient parish of Chesterton, immediately north-east of Cambridge, 1 covered … included the 5-a. site, within that suburb, of the royal castle built in 1068. 9 About 1600 the castle, serving as a prison, belonged ecclesiastically to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… parish, roughly quadrilateral on plan and with an area of 1, 124 acres, lies at the head of the dry valley which lower down is drained by the Crichel Brook. The village stands in the bottom of the valley and formerly was surrounded by its open fields; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Michael) CHETWYND ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Newport, Newport division of the hundred of South … and the latter produces 20. In Cheveley Park is an old castle, surrounded by a fosse. A very remarkable fossil tooth … it was bestowed on Roger de Montgomery, who erected a castle adjoining the ramparts, and four gates, and gave the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cheveley CHEVELEY Cheveley occupies a slice of chalk downland and clay-capped hills stretching south-east … sites for the church and village, the 14th-century moated castle, and the park of the great house which succeeded it … 72 but there were also trees in the park around Cheveley castle. 73 Further south on higher ground, some woodland …