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A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden … creditors 'has the same effect'. 50 In the 1720s the master masons William Townesend and Bartholomew Peisley were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held two fisheries in demesne at Madgett. 6 By the late 13th century, shortly before the manor was granted … 31 two mariners and a sail-maker in 1841, 32 and a master mariner in 1923. 33 Local merchantships were a form of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of the charity funds in 1683. 99 In 1781 the vestry resolved to appoint a mistress to teach nine poor …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… variously described between 1664 and 1714 as a labourer, gentleman, and esquire, who had an estate worth £180 in 1714. 77 Although in 1682 the names of 68 persons who did not attend church were given, only the Gwillim family can be identified as Roman Catholics with …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest … and over 100 a. 15 It was described in the 1780s as a gentleman's seat with pleasant gardens. 16 The farm was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … mangled. The board of ordnance, subsequently finding this gentleman duly qualified, authorised him to choose a … superintendence being highly approved of, he was appointed master-founder, which office he held for nearly sixty years, …
The Environs of London
… how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, … atchievements in memory of Capt. Richard Leake 36, Master-gunner of England, (father of Sir John Leake the … in consequence of inheriting a considerable estate from a gentleman of that name, was one of the prebendaries of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, 6 miles (N. W. by N.) from … there is a grave-stone to the memory of Sir William Lisle, master in chancery, and father of John Lisle, the regicide. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … consist of a schoolroom, with a dwelling-house for the master, and 29 apartments for the almspeople. Schools for …