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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Parish church and church life PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and … became bishops: Nicholas West (150215) bishop of Ely, 89 Ralph Brideoake (165565) bishop of Chichester, 90 and … 190, 195. BL, Harl. MS 1616, f. 7; Eng. Episcopal Acta, I: Lincoln, ed. D. M. Smith (1980), 823. BL, Harl. MS 1616, ff. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but no Witney townsmen seem to have been implicated, and in 1577 only five recusants were reported there. 2 Among … Witney to petition against establishment of Roman Catholic dioceses was attended by Anglican, Wesleyan and … 12 A Roman Catholic church, dedicated to St Hugh of Lincoln, was established about 1930 in the former Anglican …
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 … king's books at 4. 13. l and in the gift of the Bishop of Ely: the great tithes have been commuted for 262. 13., and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … of freestone brought from Ancaster, in the county of Lincoln, in exchange for coal obtained on the estate. The … in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge; containing, with Wolvey-Holes, 18 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and Sudtune. [Pedigree] The family of Mortein were the next … of Sir Richard Rothwell, of Stapleford, in the County of Lincoln, Bart. by whom he had four sons, Francis, Thomas, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of … out of the church on the orders of St. Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, was destroyed at the Dissolution, but its supposed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … the site of a noble palace that belonged to the bishops of Lincoln. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the … the time of Edward the Confessor, the prior and convent of Ely had possession here, and their successors still hold the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of Hadley and their son Alan gave land bounded on the east by a stream … in Wrockwardine Wood, one straggling along New Road and Lincoln Road and another at Trench. In the 20th century those …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. St. Leonard's priory was dissolved in 1536 … the tithes were acquired from the Crown by the earl of Lincoln and Christopher Gowffe for a fee farm rent of £2 6 s. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wooburn 99. … 12th-century date; c. 1360 the North Chapel was added, and the Chancel was probably re-built at the same time. The … of Aylesbury, and chaplain to William Atwater, Bishop of Lincoln, 1519, figure of priest in processional vestments, …