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A History of the County of Hampshire
… William of Wykeham in 1387 on a site bought of the Prior and convent of St. Swithun, outside the jurisdiction of the mayor and corporation and within the bishop's own jurisdiction of … in his statutes forbade dancing, wrestling and other disorderly games in chapel, hall or cloisters, was replaced …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … 17th century was that of bringing before the magistrates disorderly and idle children who much profaned the Lord's day …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … 2 the site of the later castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was … counterparts who were alleged not to care 'how drunk a man is if the work is done'. The blanket-maker John …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to … and red-collared beadle'. 174 Witney was said to be 'very disorderly', though by 1838 the influence of reforming …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Parish church and church life PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a … galleries, church services could be a dispiriting, even disorderly, experience. 119 Jerram's Witney career left the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group … 89 In 1769 the Witney meeting complained of lax or 'disorderly' members, and in 1773 nearly 30 were expelled …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates CHURCH. The church existed by 1254 when … lords presenting regularly, except in 1564, 1589, 1607, and 1637 when turns had been granted or sold, 3 and in 1890 when Robert Cantrell presented as guardian of N. …
A History of the County of Essex
… a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new … 86 Natural boundaries were formed by streams on the east and north-west, Wivenhoe and Whit- more heaths on the north-east, and the river Colne …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and Sudtune. [Pedigree] The family of Mortein were the next … Henry the firsts time, at the foundation of Lenton Priory; and Adam de Moretonio, 2 22 H. 2. gave account of xxx marks …