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A History of the County of Oxford
… the royal forest of Wychwood and some, notably North Leigh, had the dispersed settlement pattern typical of forest … were affected by intercommoning and other forest customs. In the Anglo-Saxon period Eynsham was an important centre, … inclosure, chiefly for sheep farming, at Cogges and South Leigh in the west and Begbroke, Water Eaton, and Yarnton in …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… good meanes and [illegible] [...nt?] remedye may be taken. In tender consyderacion whereof, and [illegible] sayde … of the truthe and by [illegible] [illegible] tratours and in due execution of justice and [on?] her majesties … the good behavour against hir majestie and all hir highnes leigh people, and especially against Johane Watson widowe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… that money shulde be taxed upon certaine inhabitantes in sondry parishes, within this countie, towardes the necessary relief of the late infected persons, in the tythinge of Whitstone, betwene the parishe of Claynes … fyt that he contynue The inhabitants of the parish of Leigh. Ref.110 BA1/1/7/75 (1610) To the honourable Sir David …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Katherine [Emmes?] [illegible] of Richard Emmes was born in our sayed [town?] [illegible] and her sayed husband being … overseers for the poor and inhabitants of Bransford and Leigh. Ref.110 BA1/1/46/76 (1623) To the honourable and right … of the poore and of the inhabitantes of Braunsford and Leigh in the countye aforesaid. Humbly sheweth, that John Cox …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… report of your courtious behaviour towards all gentlemen in distresse embouldeneth mee to beseech you, to take into … Tyrer The constable, churchwardens and overseers of Leigh. Ref.110 BA1/1/185/3 (1661) Leigh. To the right worshippfull justices for the peace …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… his majesties justices of the peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, and to all others whom it … of the treasary xx shillings per curiam Thomas Harvey of Leigh, mason. Ref.110 BA1/1/128/75 (1677) To the right … 1677 The humble petition of Thomas Harvey of the parish of Leigh in the county of Worcester mason. Humbly sheweth that …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worplesdon (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of … passes through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton … 7 miles (W. by N.) from Manchester, on the road to Leigh and Wigan; containing 8337 inhabitants. One of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wothersome - Wrayton Wothersome WOTHERSOME, a township, in the parish of Bardsey, Lower division of the wapentake of … inhabitants. It comprises about 600 acres of land, set out in three farms. Wotton (St. John the Evangelist) WOTTON ( St. … Elizabeth Martindale, is applied in teaching children. On Leigh down, about a mile from Failand's Inn, in the parish, …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Castle St, Bristol, cm and u (181819). Trading at no. 10 in 1818 and no. 8 in 1819. [D] Yale, Elihu, London, cm, … John, address unrecorded. Bill dated 16 May 1738 to Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warks., lists A large Looking Glass in … York for his father, John. [Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5; Christie's, Stoneleigh sale cat., …