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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at Brame. The property was then held by two knights, More and Waleham (Hist. MSS. Comm., 6 th Rep. (Leconfield …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… monachorum, a gate near the outer hostelry dividing the more public part of the monastery from the monks' own … the positions of the buildings are reversed, and it is more easily understood if looked at in a mirror. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the committee system grew; public meetings were more frequently summoned and at times demanded a poll; road … according to scale, to families with five children or more. The new Poor Law union was presently created, 93 and at … the prosperity of Ely farms by 1860. Population had grown more'rapidly in the city of Ely than in the surrounding …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… still in existence. 54 Conditions in Prickwillow were much more favourable to Nonconformity, and the Baptists (1816), … in 1894. They still exist. The Wesleyan congregation had more or less died out by 1894, and the chapel, under the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… school with 49 pupils, 12 boys and 11 girls aged 11 and more being moved to Littleport. The teacher's house was badly … boys away from the grammar school on account of its more practical curriculum ( V.C.H. Cambs. ii, 322). 'A person …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was a subject which touched the livelihood of the fenman, more alert to immediate loss of fishing-rights and commons … before the Civil War Ely was facing unemployment 31 and more traditional types of poverty. Parochial authorities here … effected in 1633: moneys were henceforth to be devoted to more general relief of the city's needs, and control was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for the purpose of converting arable land to pasture, but more commonly for dairy-farming than for sheep. There is no … out of work, it was said. In not a few cases two or more holdings were combined, former dwellings being thereby … property mentioned in the complaints was copyhold; still more was held on lease; but nothing is said here about …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the city was 1 open arable field; to the south were 2 more arable open fields and some 700 acres of inclosed … with sincere approval: bread, dairy produce, and fuel were more generously provided than in most places, but distress …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… spelt full, if arduous, employment for citizens, and more than one wealthy bishop went down to posterity as a … the gifted few: in later ages such activities were even more marked. Feudalism so paternal could neither easily be … in the years which followed, bishop and prior had to exert more than a little pressure to secure a continuance of the …
Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693/4
… Leyborne, and for. Thomas, William 2.40 12.00 0.00 0.00 More, Mary 1.60 8.00 0.00 0.00 Symonds, Michael 3.60 18.00 …