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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… chapel was not finished till after 1786. The new N. Range with the Provost's Lodgings at the W. end was built between … years 1720 and 1786. The central part is of three storeys with a cornice and central pediment. The cornice is continued … but has been much altered. The N. front has remains of some original windows with moulded reveals and square heads, …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… were found to be inadequate, and in 1552 it was joined with Worcester under Bishop John Hooper, and at the same time … Mary in March 1554 two bishops were once again appointed, with separate dioceses. The prebends reverted to being in the … provides details of institutions and collations, although some are not recorded in the sixteenth century. Chapter acts …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… chattell [founde?] not the [l...?] [illegible] [illegible] some smale terme. Nowe all be hit by her majesties lawes and … worrships to understand that whereas John Hey late servant with John Nott of Crundall End in the parishe of Abburley and … of Worcester in the time of his service there did begett with child one Ann Prescodd the servant with the said John …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… for the churchwardens unto whom they promissed to take some convenient course to releeve your suppliant in her … your said peticioner having bene many yeres visited with sicknes and infirmities, and his poore wief and theire … people, which he useth to gett by threatninge them with proces and compelling them to compounde with him without …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… but muste of necessitie have perished, yf they had not ben some way supported in their extremitie. And forasmuche as the … cause ever to pray for youre longe and happie healthes, with encrease of dignitie. The names of suche parishes from … Marson of Holt Sheweing that shee was unlawfully begatt with child by Rowland Lloyd one of Sir Henry Bromleyes men; …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… did arrest the said Elizabeth Mooreley and chardgeing some of his neighbours there present to aide and assiste him … upon by a rude companye, which came out of the alehowse with a minstrell, before them, and there did grevously beate … and to take somm order wheareby shee may have somm relief with speede or otherwise your poore petissioner is like to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… greatt charge, that they may be provided for his rente of some competent houseroome, within one of the said parishes, … Croome in the said countie where she beinge over= charged with the educacion of five small children, and now noe place … whoe thenn and for tenn years sithence together dwelled with yor peticioner in the towne of Bewdley which said John …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… graunt that hee may either have his pencione renued or els some other meanes whereby hee may have his woundes cured … a malitious mannor putt manie other in a mounste them and with moste extremitie hathe yronde them, in that cruell … leave one behinde her and sayethe that she will take order with him that he shalbe worse then ever she hathe beene, and …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… whom Christe Gesus hathe dearelye bought may have some convenient cotage for themselves and theire poore … that the said William Taylor may remaine and dwell with his foresaid famyly, in a certen cottage or tenement by … Taylor can provide him a better place, and this poore man with his wief and children will ever praie to God for you in …