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A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the borough's rents, market tolls, and profits of court. 79 In King … the north end of Old Woodstock was adjusted to include a row of houses at Hill Rise, formerly in Wootton parish. 91 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Wool 52 WOOL (8486) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish … the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on … novices' day-room; it is of five bays. It had a central row of columns and a groined vault; the moulded bases of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cob cottages; 6 in Lower Road two still stand of a former row and a small house encroaches on the waste at the end of … east - west street. They include Dawbins, Jacobs, Tassel's Cottage, no. 4 Vicarage Road, and Apple Tree Cottage. … Sir John Hody (d. 1441), chief justice of the king's bench. 6 Fifty horsemen, a foot company from the Bridgwater …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 … 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 6. 18. 9., and in the patronage of Mrs. L. Flood … here before the Reformation, and a well called Our Lady's Well is still in repute for its medicinal properties. Wools …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cathedral, of which the only one now remaining is Edgar's tower. In 1041, a tax imposed by Hardicanute excited an … when endeavouring to shelter themselves in Edgar's tower, and put them to death. To punish this outrage, the … them suddenly, while in the act of ravaging the bishop's lands at Wick, captured or killed 500 men, and put the rest …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1712 Inhabitants of Northfield in support of Thomas Row. Ref.110 BA1/1/240/30 (1716) [Wigorn?] sessions To his … being forset to remove his walfruit trees and other tree's wholy destroyd; together with a pleck of artichoks, …
A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in … a monk, told of a dragon who threatened Richard Waldegrave's territory near Sudbury but fled into the Mere when pursued. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 3 miles (S. S. W.) fromYarm; containing 143 inhabitants. This chapelry, …
A History of the County of York
… and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James … liturgical documents surviving from the period only Egbert's Pontifical has any direct link with York but this comprises … hours and improve the music in the church. Æthelberht's new basilica, consecrated in 780, with its apsidal chapels …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It … group. a(11) Cottages, two (200 yds. S.E.). a(12) London Row, five dwellings (80 yds. S.E.). a(13) Cottages, a pair …