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Alumni Oxonienses
… 1500-1714 West-Wicksted West-Wicksted West, Ambrose of co. Lincoln, pleb. St. Mary Hall, matric. entry under date … 1718, B.D. 1724, D.D. 1729; born 13 Jan., 1693, admitted to Merchant Taylors' school 1693, third (1720), and second … Lincoln Coll. 1573-7, M.A. 6 July, 1577 ("suspected to be a papist"); perhaps rector of Carlton-Curliew 1576, and of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which contains 4,500 acres, with an additional 422 acres of foreshore and 58 acres of tidal water, forms a roughly rectangular block, 3 miles from north to south and 2 miles from east to west, with a narrow tongue, … but parts of the walls, of red and black brickwork, may be of that period. In the walls of a modern outbuilding at …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Newnham and Minsterworth; both those places had chapels of ease by 1261, which had become parish churches by 1309. 64 … 65 but by 1291 a portion of the profits had been assigned to a vicarage 66 to which the rectors presented. 67 In the … Sheriff, vicar from 1537 to 1558, 14 was pronounced to be barely satisfactorily in doctrine in 1551. 15 Thomas …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1086 5 ploughs and one servus were recorded on the demesne of the Crown's large estate at Westbury; the remainder of the … vineyard of Walmore mentioned c. 1200 presumably belonged to the demesne of that manor. 62 Reynold of Abenhall's … by another award in 1861. 92 The parish was said to be predominantly pasture, meadow, and orcharding c. 1775, 93 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN, a large rural parish of scattered hamlets and farmsteads, lies 6 miles southwest … of Dean hills. A part of Flaxley parish, comprising 58 a. to the west of Walmore Common, was absorbed into Westbury … along the roads were probably medieval sites and many can be traced by name from the 16th and 17th centuries. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Profits of court were received for Burghill manor in 1303, 24 and for … in 1337, 25 but no court rolls and no later reference to a court on any of the divisions of Westbury manor have … an urban district under the act of 1894, 61 but it was taken into Gloucester Rural District in 1935. 62 Inq. p.m. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1066 Westbury was the centre of a large but scattered Crown estate which owed one night's … at Westbury. 65 Henry II granted the manor of WESTBURY to Roger de Mynors to hold by the service of a sore goshawk … the estate was then as later in the 14th century said to be held of the de Bohuns as of Haresfield. 72 John's share …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… INDUSTRY AND TRADE. Like the other towns in the basin of the Bradford Avon, Westbury emerged as a centre of the … 'the towne stondithe moste by clothiers'. 54 In addition to acquiring fulling mills for their business, the clothiers … Besides the Whitakers and the Phippses mention must be made of the Benetts, also clothiers, who were leasing the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Introduction WESTBURY The ancient parish of Westbury 1 was co-extensive with the hundred. 2 It was … crescent-shaped, stretching some seven miles from east to west, and approximately four miles from north to south, … Farm. 35 Most of the houses in this area appear to be of 18th- or early 19th-century date, but in many cases …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Manors MANORS. In 1086 the king, as successor to Queen Edith, held WESTBURY. 40 It could thus later claim to be ancient demesne of the Crown. 41 The royal manor was assessed at 40 hides, …