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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Lands belonging to Bisley parish were vested from ancient times in a body known as the Bisley feoffees. They covered 44 a. in 1608 59 and included …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Churches CHURCHES. There was probably a church at Bisley in pre-Conquest times and 2 priests were recorded … ease at one of the other settlements of the large manor of Bisley, possibly at Stroud or at Paganhill. 86 The large …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture In 1086 … and ancille and 4 ploughs on the demesne of the manor of Bisley. 18 In 1309 Tibbald de Verdun's portion of the manor … and only 5 a. of pasture and meadow. 25 The tenants of Bisley manor in 1086 were 20 villani and 28 bordars, having …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Education EDUCATION. A part of the profits of the ancient endowment of parish lands held by the Bisley feoffees was allotted to the payment of a school … and 1704 five masters were licensed to teach the school at Bisley, usually called the free school. 97 A building for use …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Introduction BISLEY Bisley lies on the north side of the valley of the river … of professional and retired people. The boundaries of Bisley parish, which included 7,980 a., 1 were determined for …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. In the later 14th and early 15th centuries courts for Bisley manor, recorded on the same series of rolls, were held sometimes in the name of the Bisley family and sometimes in the name of the earls of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In … Hugh d'Avranches, earl of Chester, held the large manor of Bisley, extended at 8 hides. It evidently included the whole of Bisley and Stroud with the exception of Througham, which the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. Bisley parish had a Presbyterian meeting in the late 17th … in 1753 that a meeting should be re-established at Bisley. 53 William Verinder's house was licensed for worship …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. In 1931 a Roman Catholic chapel was opened in Bisley village; the village then had only 10 Catholic …
Alumni Oxonienses
… aged 19; B.A. 4 June, 1635, one of these names vicar of Bisley, co. Gloucester, 1641. See Foster's Index …