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A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … two churchwardens and two overseers of the poor but no accounts survive earlier than the 19th century. In 1855 the …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the … p. 371. Hasted's History of Kent, vol. i. Minister's accounts in the Augmentation-office. See vol. iii. p. 424. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the western boundary passed through the royal forest of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix in the parish's name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was in use in the 14th …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) To the right worshipfull the justices of the peace at a sessions holden at Worcester the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1690s The poor inhabitants of the tything of Whitstones. Ref.110 BA1/1/167/14 (1693) To the worshipfull … our said parish have suffered much wrong upon severall accounts and there has also been a very great robery done of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. Ref.110 BA1/1/188/77 (1700) … nor did they appear on the day appointed to give in the accounts to the parish witness my hand [Thomas Parsons?] …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1720s The major creditors of Richard Maris. Ref.110 BA1/1/256/32 (1721) To the worshipfull justices of the peace for the county of Worcester now assembled att the generall quarter sessions …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1740s Henry Crane of Bromsgrove, protestant dissenter. Ref.110 BA1/1/324/29 (1740) To the worshipfull the justices of the peace of the county of Worcester at their quarter sessions …