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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Tydd St. Giles TYDD ST. GILES Tydd St. Giles, the northernmost parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the … 20 s. at most. He was liable for service as beadle or dike-reeve, if appointed. For every day that he mowed he should …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a … 1517. 32 Officers elected in the late 14th century were a reeve and a harrower, 33 and a hayward was mentioned in 1381. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FAIRS Witney had a weekly market and two annual fairs from the early 13th century, though their economic fortunes, as … and stall-rents, seem not always to have mirrored those of the town generally: during the 13th and 16th centuries, both periods of apparent growth …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured … toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited … town crier. 48 Town Bailiffs The principal office, that of reeve or bailiff, was held from the Middle Ages by leading …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES The manor of WIVENHOE was an estate of 5 hides less 15 a. … Park, a large house built in 1962-4, designed for him by Raymond Erith. 12 South prospect of Wivenhoe in 1734, with … of Wivenhoe, 133-7, 277; V.C.H. Essex, ix. 366. L. Archer, Raymond Erith, Architect, 171-2. E.J. v. 137-9; V.C.H. Essex, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, providing timber and some … one horse or two cows for every 4 annual rent. The parish reeve branded cattle with the mark for Woodford parish: 60 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Pleas and perquisites at the Woodmancote manor court were worth 3 s. 4 d. a year in 1339. 67 There are court rolls for the years 1341, 68 1680, 1698, and 1721-1935. Only eleven … in 1800 and 1803 at the Royal Oak inn in Shermanbury. A reeve was mentioned in 1680 and later, and a crier in 1800 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… courts were held for Aluredston with assize of ale in the late 13th century, and a hayward was elected. 66 After … added Aluredston to its lordship of Woolaston in 1302 the courts were apparently united, but no court rolls survive … 68 and court papers for 1741-60. 69 In 1405 much of the business concerned cases of trespass and pleas of debt. …