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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1790s Charles Faulkner, keeper of the Worcestershire bridewell. Ref.110 BA1/1/521/31 (1790) … bridewell July 13th 1790 To the worshipful the justices of the county of Worcester assembled in sessions The humble …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Worlingham Worlingham. Ulf, a free-man of Gurth, the brother of Harold, held Worlingham at the time of the Survey, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Introduction WORMINGFORD THE ancient parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 …
A History of the County of Essex
… manor. 25 Courts leet, recorded for Church Hall manor in the 15th century, handled transfers of holdings and amerced tenants for trespass and nuisances. … was recorded in 1822. 30 Women were elected as parish officers in 1785, 1807, and 1814. 31 In 1706 the highway …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… N.E. (b)xxxi. S.E.) Eccleslastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands at the S. end of the village. The walls are of rubble with limestone …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worplesdon (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of Wokeing, W. … the Worsley Troop, consisting of fifty members and three officers, and commanded by Viscount Brackley: it has a …
A History of the County of York
… Worship in the Minster WORSHIP IN THE MINSTER The Middle Ages It has been said 1 that the earliest liturgical traditions of the north were closely linked with Rome: this is perhaps … Henry IV forbade the offerings and ordered the cathedral officers to pull down the screen— clausure de …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It stretches N.N.E. from …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing WORTHING The Present article 51 deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of the town as it was enlarged by the successive boundary …
A History of the County of Sussex
… PARISHES Worthing, a municipal borough from 1890 to 1974, the second largest town in Sussex, and one of the principal seaside resorts in England and Wales, lies … 2,735 a. including Worthing. 2 When an improvement commission for the growing town was established in 1803, 3 it …