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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, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from … of its situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a …
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
… 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
… Quarter Sessions: 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) … the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your worships have been pleased at some … severall parcells of land thereto belonging, to one John Barnes in the 21th yeare of King James, and hath no way been …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the sixteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and [fifty one?] [illegible] We whose names are hereunto … now or late in the occupation of Thomas Shelfield and James Wooley as a place of meeting or religious worship for us and others a congregation of protestant dissenters under the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the above prison being continually very full of prisoners and many of them for very capitol crimes your petitioner is … having no assistant allowed to assist him in his charge and the present salary so inadequate to the trust that your … worships will condescend to take it into consideration and that you will please to grant him such an augmentation to …
A History of the County of Essex
… the Lexden Classis in the 1640s, left Wormingford c. 1669 and became a Quaker missionary. 97 In 1676 there was one … Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion chapel in Fordham, 2 and another cottage was licensed for Baptist services held by … cottage, reported attendances of 23 in the morning and 39 in the afternoon, compared with average attendances of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Worminghall 100. … S.E.) Eccleslastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands at the S. end of the village. The walls … building was drastically restored in the 19th century and the original history much obscured, but the Nave appears …