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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Bishop Northwold presented William de Northwold to it. The vicar was to receive the tithes except those of flax and … allotted to Ely. 71 The patronage of the church of St. Augustine (1869) is with the Bishop of Ely. The Octagon … patens, and a flagon, all silver, 1829. The church of ST. AUGUSTINE, erected in 1868-9, is of brick with stone …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Schools SCHOOLS A reference in the Archdeacon's Visitation Book of 1581-3 69 to a certain … on Sundays only. 77 In 1868-9 the building of St. Augustine's Church made it necessary to consider a Church … school for 70 girls and 130 infants was constructed in St. Augustine's parish at a cost of £1,205. Towards these …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC HISTORY Medieval Trade and Industry During the earlier 13th century the recently founded borough, despite temporary setbacks, … to have thrived. Fairs were founded in 1202 and 1231, the borough was extended in 121920, and there seems no doubt …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: the industrial revolution in Witney c.1800-1900 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WITNEY, c. 18001900 During the 19th century Witney was transformed by mechanization, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, … 1870, largely through the efforts of the Witney surgeon Augustine Batt. 283 The Earlier Twentieth Century Housing and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of … supporters. Attempts to install the defeated candidates Augustine Batt and W. H. Tarrant because they were high …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured … toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited … in at his expense. 269 From the 1760s the Witney surgeon Augustine Batt (d. 1779) and his son Edward inoculated …
A History of the County of Oxford
… PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems likely, the earliest … pier of the crossing, commemorating the surgeon Edward Augustine Batt (d. 1853). Church bells were recorded from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Richard Owen of Godstow was returned as a recusant in the 1590s, 64 and his influence may have encouraged the eight other recusants from the parish fined in the early … century, when, in 1911, the church of St. Gregory and St. Augustine was built on the Woodstock road for a congregation …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … in the union of Bridge, hundred of Wingham, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, 6 miles (S. E.) from … hundred of Ringslow, or the Isle of Thanet, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from …