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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… A savings bank was established in 1818, and collected £435 4 s. 6 d. in deposits in its first year. 31 Friendly … was purchased by the Corporation from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for £2,400 and laid out as a public park. 40 … whole town until the Improvement Act of 1810, when special commissioners were appointed for this purpose. 52 An …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was by established custom awarded to charity. This led the Commissioners to regard the office as 'burdensome without … salary of £35, and a new post of chamberlain was created. 4 In 1849 the town clerk's salary was £45 a year, and he also drew £15 a year as clerk to the Sub-Commissioners of Pilotage and £25 as clerk to the Charity …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… cost £10 2 s. 7 d. Wages to those employed amounted to £4. The finished goods were sold in 1624 for £36 8 s. 29 In … a stone of flour a head weekly. When this commodity was at 4 s. a stone an agreement had been made allowing Matthews a … were 20 s. a week. 33 In the early 1830's the Poor Law Commissioners reported that the house 'was not …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… sluice, which was broken by a sea flood in or before 1523, 4 but by 1566 there was a certain amount of activity in … by the Privy Council to investigate the problem. The commissioners found that the level of the river bed had been … that the river should be widened from 40 to 60 ft. 9 The commissioners, however, thought that if the outfall was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in respect of Wisbech under the Declaration of Indulgence (1672). By the end of the 17th century there were already … at New Walsoken, 'a small mean building, erected in 1837'. 4 The Presbyterians in Wisbech were organized as a society … in 1724, and was succeeded by John Ford, who was paid £4 a year and moved to Sudbury (Suff.) in 1729. 5 Philip …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… him or else fyer the town and cutt the throats of all the Commissioners'. On his absence being discovered the shops of … 119 a). This troop was still in existence in 1690, when £4 was voted for the expenses of a horseman to serve therein …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… still visible in dry summers, 3 is shown on a map of 1632, 4 and indistinct traces of both roads and house sites were … the demesne, and 5 villeins, 5 bordars, and 9 socmen had 4 ploughs. Two Frenchmen completed the number of landholders. … flocks may have been at Newton Harcourt. 76 The inclosure commissioners made 9 allotments in 1772: of the 875 a. …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… son of Adam del Gate, (3) Richard son of Adam le Fevere, (4) Robert Tailor ( sutor), (5) Robert the Chaplain's son, (6) … arms they came to the said Roger's water of Whytherslak, 4 which is his free fishery, and fished there without his … Andrew Wy . . . e, knight, and John Hales the king's commissioners, by the oath of Robert Bellyngham, knight, John …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the late 20th century. 3 Under a decree by the Charity Commissioners in 1613 the almshouse, with the town hall and … 1613 for the bailiffs and excluded from charitable uses. 4 Holloway's and Townsend's Almshouses Two other almshouses … to keep down poor rates, a policy condemned by the Charity Commissioners in 1701. 18 By the early 19th century, out of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… centuries were often implicated in piecemeal inclosure. 4 Other better-off townsmen supplemented their income by … (ORS 44), p. 158. ORO, MSS Wills Oxon. 12/1/42, 60/4/27; PRO, PROB 3/18/164. Blenheim Mun., box 156, leases of … (origins and devpt). Rep. Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners (Parl Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), p. 552. ORO, …