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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of holding a manor court. Here stands the "Lancashire Independent College" for the education of young men designed … at 8. 6. 8.; the glebe contains 45 acres. There is an Independent place of worship. Withycombe (St. Nicholas) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… entering or engaged in trade. 28 Rent charges from Yate's, Wiltshire's, and Wilmot's charities were redeemed in the … men or women at the discretion of his heir at law, the Independent and Wesleyan Methodist ministers, and a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… houses nationally, and by 1999 was one of only three independent breweries in Oxfordshire. 36 In all more than 80 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with the well known entrepreneurial clothiers of Suffolk, Wiltshire, and Berkshire. 17 Thomas Fermor's widow Emmot, … clothiers of Yorkshire rather than their counterparts in Wiltshire and the west of England, who were primarily traders … Its purpose was to regulate and control the numerous small independent manufacturers operating both within the town and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or industry. Lawyers, doctors, churchmen, and those of independent means, important to the town's social life, … and Early, Blanket Makers, 158. Clergy and those of independent means numbered nearly 50 in 1851: PRO, HO …
A History of the County of Oxford
… their main estates, which were concentrated in Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Somerset; 257 the manor's attractions, … usually drawn. 265 How far such townsmen forged a strong, independent urban community during the medieval period is not … of them, who happened to be constable, overheard a drunken Wiltshire upholsterer expressing Jacobite sympathies in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Neither the Witney nor the township churchwardens had any independent endowment, their income in the 16th century and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… area of activity, and by the 1670s Witney possessed Independent and Quaker meetings each with their own meeting … and prominent neo-Gothic chapel, which, with a nearby Independent or Congregationalist chapel built in 1828, … of the lecturer William Gilbert, several prominent Independent, Presbyterian, and Anabaptist preachers remained …