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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … belonged to this guild. NONCONFORMITY A congregation of Baptists was established at Tydd St. Giles by 1782. John … 15. It had increased to 28 in 1800. In 1817 there were 65 Baptists at Tydd St. Giles, Sutton St. James, and Fleet. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken place in … is rendered improbable by the line of this boundary and also by the fact that until the last century Wisbech St. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Guilds and chantries GUILDS AND CHANTRIES In 1389 there were six guilds in Wisbech. St. … in 1462, by which date guilds of St. George, St. Lawrence, and Holy Cross had also been founded. In this year the Holy …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY In 1638 unlawful meetings and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas Bouth. 81 The Baptists are the first sect to be mentioned by name. In 1655 two Baptists from Fen Stanton (Hunts.) visited their brethren at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Godwin the elder (1756-1836), author of Political Justice, and father of Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley's wife; James … ( fl. 1832-46), the first Baptist missionary to India; and Octavia Hill (1838-1912), the housing reformer and … Unitarian missionary, minister of the Particular Baptists from about 1790 to 1810. The vicars of Wisbech …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… (O.S. 6 in. (a)XIV N.E., (b)XIV S.E.) Wistow is a parish and village 3 m. S.S.W. of Ramsey. The church, bridge and Limetree Farm are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … of Barnack stone; the roofs are covered with slates and lead. The S. wall of the Chancel and possibly also the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, the Chapter of Ely. There is a place of … is of stained glass. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Roman …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Witherslack, Meathop and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: the tithes have … 5. 1.; net income, 250; patron, the Dean of Hereford. The Baptists have a place of worship; and there is a charitv …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings 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 …