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A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The … by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their market, probably also had their court or … may have been carried by aldermen. There are also short staffs carried by the four tithingmen. Administration of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, … area of heathland on Bagshot Beds. Recent boundary changes in the S.W. have resulted in considerable gains, including the hamlet of East Burton, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woolminstone - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division … Woolpit (St. Mary) WOOLPIT ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stow, hundred of Thedwastry, W. division of … vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One of the largest horse-fairs in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … is enumerated by Nennius under the name of Caer Guorangon in his catalogue of cities belonging to the Britons, by whom, … be a stone of the Caradoc formation altered by heat; the beacon hill, contiguous, is composed of a rock of igneous …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Jan. 1542, after the dissolution of its monastic body. As in each of the other cathedrals in this volume, the former head of the monastic establishment … II (1907) 48-9; V.C.H. Warwicks. II (1908) 50; V.C.H. Staffs. III (1970) 92; V.C.H. Salop II (1973) 1. L. & P. XVI …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Ref.110 BA1/1/16/29 (1601) To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of … and one whoe was borne and hath byn alwayes dwellinge in Odingley and haveinge noe maintenance or frindes to … forceiblie turned out of an out howse of Thomas Sales in Odingley wherein she had byn almost three yeres, ever …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of Phillippe Wilkes Shewinge, that he beinge borne in Ombersley and beinge maryed unto one Christian [Maneley?] … to be shrowded therein, who ar now constrained to lodge in the highe wayes and fieldes for wante of order to be taken … The humble peticion of John Smyth constable of Sadbury in the said countye. Sheweinge that your peticioner since his …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Katherine [Emmes?] [illegible] of Richard Emmes was born in our sayed [town?] [illegible] and her sayed husband being … worship and other inhabitants (and having lived in [Fladbury?] afforesayed in good name and fame for manie yeares now [last?] past is …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1630s The inhabitants of the parish of the Holy Cross in Pershore. Ref.110 BA1/1/58/64 (1633) To the right … of the inhabitantes of the parishe of the Holy Cross in Parshore in the county of Worcester Humbly sheweth that whereas about …