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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, … acclivity of elevated ground rising gently from the east bank of the river Severn, over which is a handsome stone … water by means of a steam-engine, erected on the eastern bank of the Severn at a place called Little Pitchcroft, in …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships … humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve beinge a lame crepple and one whoe was borne and hath byn alwayes dwellinge in Odingley and haveinge noe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Dabitott in the countie aforesaid, by the permission and allowance of William Horton of Staunton in the countie of … of the mannor or lordshipp of Ridmarley afore= said, for and to the use of your pore peticioner, whoe hath dwelte and inhabited in the said parishe for manie yers laste paste. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… yt please your worshipps, that whereas at [Michaellmas?] and Trinitye sessions last past there was a bill of [complaynt?] and two severall certificattes preferred by us the … Thomas Moorely Elizabeth [illegible] wief, John Kempster, and Thomas Byrd alesellers, [sh...?] unto your worshipps, of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… there are many poore men to the number of thirty persons and upwardes who lye there, some upon their behaviour and the most part of the rest upon matters of small or noe … wold unchristianlike be starved to death with hunger cold and nakednes, some of them alsoe haveing many poore children …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, and to all others whom it shall or may concerne Wee whose … matter was heard in court, betweene the said inhabitantes and one Richard Grimell, concerninge the keepinge of a … childe whereof the said Richard is the putative father; and whereas the said Richard hath since the said sessions, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… see the conquerour made it) had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.W. (b)xviii. S.W.) Wormingford is a parish on the right bank of the Stour, 6 m. N.W. of Colchester. The church, Church House and Jenkin's Farm are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … some admixture of brick; the dressings are of limestone and Roman brick, and the roofs are tiled. The Nave and the …
A History of the County of Essex
… WORMINGFORD THE ancient parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 miles south-east of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a. … at the bottom of Church Road, where there is a sand bank in the middle of the river. 39 A ford further east near …