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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1780s The inhabitants of the chapelry of Lower Mitton, Kidderminster. Ref.110 BA1/1/486/31 (1781) The humble petition of the inhabitants of the chapelry of Lower Mitton in the …
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 petition of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. … sister and coheir of Richard Fitz-John Fitz-Geoffrey, the justice of Ireland, who was afterwards married to William … in silvan embellishments; and here is enough of nature's chief effusions, moulded into forms to make this domain …
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 … to that town. The above John Wilde was buried in the common pathway in Worlingham church-yard, leading from the … cenotaph are the arms of Sparrow, arg. 3 roses az. and a chief gules, impaling Bernard, arg. a bear erect sab. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable arable … from the Middle Ages. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of demesne ploughs increased from 3 to 4, and the men … arable, and there were 241 a. of meadow. 85 In 1870 the chief crops were wheat, barley, and oats. 86 In 1843 there …
A History of the County of Essex
… had been taken by Raymond Girald and was held by Roger of Poitou who held manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. … until 1623 when Humphrey Winch, one of the justices of common pleas, 26 sold it to Frances Alston of Polstead (Suff.), from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of Wokeing, W. … adorned with emblematic figures of Faith, Hope, Charity, Justice, Fortitude, aud other virtues; the font is peculiarly … of the district; and North Hall here was built by Lord Chief Justice Clayton, of Adlington Hall, as a seat for his …
A History of the County of York
… It has been said 1 that the earliest liturgical traditions of the north were closely linked with Rome: this is perhaps … Bayeux, though the Uses of Bayeux and York had little in common two centuries later. 9 For the York Use, evidence is … in plainsong by the canons and vicars. On Sundays and the chief festivals it was preceded by a procession through the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 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 … known as the salt green, 60 the salt grass, 61 or Worthing common, gradually came into being south of the modern shore …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1890 to 1974, the second largest town in Sussex, and one of the principal seaside resorts in England and Wales, lies … on the south coast roughly mid-way between the estuaries of the rivers Arun and Adur. The town is known nationally for … and as the centre of what was formerly one of the chief market-gardening districts in the country. The modern …