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A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … successor, W. J. Trower, was later successively bishop of Glasgow and of Gibraltar. 1 By 1844 communion was being …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on the … in the patronage of the Prebendary of Holme in York Cathedral, valued in the king's books at 6. 7. 1.: the tithes …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 … the reputed fiery ordeal which she underwent in Winchester cathedral. In the reign of Edward II., solemn tournaments …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 … with an open playground, and was organized under the Glasgow Training System. Government inspection was applied …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The estate was … estate given by Abingdon abbey to Brihthelm, bishop of Wells. 1 The Crown recovered the Witney estate before … mid 19th century, a long-running dispute with Winchester cathedral chapter having been settled in their favour in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early … Bodl. MSS Top. Oxon. a 64, no. 24; d 216, f. 116. Exeter Cathedral Muniments, MS 5106. Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. d 214, f. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 … in the patronage of the Prebendary of Wiveliscombe in the Cathedral of Wells, valued in the king's books at 27. 0. 10.; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles … on that occasion of Schmidt; it was purchased for the cathedral of Christ Church, Dublin, where it remained until …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles … patrons, the Custos and College of Vicars Choral in the Cathedral of Exeter. The church contains some ancient …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … of Great Dunmow, Essex, one of the preachers in Hereford cathedral, and rector of Kingsland, co. Hereford, 1648; … 1681, chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1684, and of the cathedral 1687, rector of Pewsey, 1685, and vicar of Rowde, …