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A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … be involved in charity administration. In 1613 the charity commissioners ruled that the bailiffs should account at the … poor 'too great to sustain', 189 and in 1701 the charity commissioners complained that some charitable income was …
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 … the 16th century, were retained by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners with Church Leys, and were sold to other …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing …
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 … the Earl of Bedford, the overtures of the parliamentary commissioners were privately submitted to him here, prior to …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of … c. 50 vessels, but by the 1880s compe- tition from the railways made investment in cargo boats, many of them …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east bank of the river Colne where it … Dir. Essex (1863), 146. D. I. Gordon, A Regional Hist. of Railways of G.B. v. 61-4, 68; P. Brown, Wivenhoe and …
A History of the County of Essex
… at Wivenhoe, which prob- ably met in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for Presbyterian … 1805 some Independents worshipped in a house at the corner of West Street and High Street; no trace of the first chapel remained. They were led by ministers from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … payable to a dean, but now received by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: each of the prebendaries has a separate … many miles. The Clarence, and the Stockton and Hartlepool railways pass about a mile and a quarter from the village, at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by will dated 1705, left £200, the income, after payments of £1 for a sermon and 10 s. to the clerk, to be given to the … by Richard Hall (probably d. 1705), was used to buy 9 a. of meadow in Wolvercote, thereafter known as the Poor's Plot. … adults should receive 3 s. 6 d. and children 2 s. 95 Part of the land was sold to the railway companies in the 1850s …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Church Church A chapel of ease at Wolvercote subject to the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, was first recorded in 1236, … 1817. 23 The living was augmented by the ecclesiastical commissioners in 1862 with £33 6 s. 8 d. a year, which was …