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A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group … 3 Probably that tendency, too, was focused on prominent clothiers and other tradesmen; inhabitants accused of aiding …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and comprising 869 a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, … by an ancient intrenchment supposed to be British, and to have been afterwards occupied by the Romans, Roman … 166; patrons and appropriators, the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford: the tithes were commuted for land in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the … W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. … in corn, &c. A great market for prime oxen of the North Devon breed, considered to be the largest in the west of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Topsham; containing 1933 … Custos and College of Vicars Choral in the Cathedral of Exeter. The church contains some ancient monuments, among …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one … by BLACK, BROAD, CREWEL, CRIMSON, DOUBLE, ENGLISH, Exeter, IN GRAIN, GREY, ITALIANO, KNOTTED, LINE, LIVERY LACE, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall-Wyvill Woodall-Wyvill Woodall, Thomas "ser." Exeter Coll., matric. 7 July, 1658. Woodall, William 1600. … graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … 1628, M.A. 7 July, 1631; possibly rector of Romansleigh, Devon, 1646. See Foster's Index Eccl. Woodcock, Thomas s. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was … 28 and in 1608 the inhabitants of the parish included 7 clothiers, 16 weavers, 5 tuckers, 3 dyers, and 2 millers, by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 … was said to be held of Elizabeth de Rivers, countess of Devon, 47 and in 1297 of her former fief, the honor of Wight. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In the Middle Ages the manors in … estate was sold by a member of the Spring family, wealthy clothiers of Lavenham (Suff.), to Sir Edward North (kt. 1542, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres. Here is a mineral spring, with baths, an hotel, and other accommodations for visiters. The water resembles … hundred of Crediton, Crediton and Northern divisions of Devon; containing 301 inhabitants. Woodland WOODLAND, a … the king's books at 22. 8. 4.; net income, 392; patrons, Exeter College, Oxford. The church contains an altar-tomb …