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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Epidemics, sanitation EPIDEMICS, SANITATION The origin of the … out in the town itself. A pesthouse was set up at Barton, and, though many cases were not fatal, 47 William Skortred … burials during the year was 206, including 42 in September and 20 in October, as opposed to an average of about 60 a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… remained a quarter-sessions town ever since; the January 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 … in 1810; it was replaced by the existing Sessions House and Police Station on the South Brink. 10 Since the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… consideracion of all such as shalbe nedefull to attend and guard them'. 47 Eight years later the deprived … Papists were ordered to be sent to castles such as Wisbech and Banbury; the laymen were to be placed under guard in … the bishop was enjoined to put Wisbech Castle 'in order and strength' to receive Papists 49 and by October the first …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 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 … was greatly reduced by the Black Death and two later plagues in 1361 and 1369. Nine villein holdings lay vacant in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the 20th century … fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: markets and fairs MARKETS AND FAIRS Witney had a weekly market and two annual fairs from the early 13th century, though …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: medieval trade and industry ECONOMIC HISTORY Medieval Trade and Industry … its name' 2 seems greatly exaggerated. Mid 14th-century plagues caused further economic difficulties, but from the … both Woodstock and Eynsham (both under 45). 37 Mid-century plagues, catastrophic in Witney's rural townships, clearly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … the century, until perhaps temporarily checked by epidemics in 1594 and, more seriously, in 15967, when there … contraction of settlement following mid 14th-century plagues, 164 though in the 16th century there were still …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings 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 …