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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… sessions 1739 allowing and appointing your peticioner's dwelling house in the town of Bromsgrove aforesaid to be a place of religious worship for protestant dissenters but in … for a place of religious worship than your peticioner's said dwelling house therefore your peticioner on the behalf …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the occupation of Thomas Shelfield and James Wooley as a place of meeting or religious worship for us and others a … and effects. That the said James Mees your petitioner's said debtor did at the time of his discharge deliver in a … of Worcester to execute such assignment of the said debtor's estate and effects as the said act requires unto your …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… increase of families and inhabitants at Stower-Port which place is within the said chapelry therefore it is absolutely … Ref.110 BA1/1/516/33 (1789) To the worshipful his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Worcester at the … of John Boles Watson master or manager of his majesty's royal licensed theatre at Cheltenham in the county of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… 31 Thomas de Furnivall, senior, 19 E: 2, atturned in his place William de Sheffeld, and Adam, son of Henry de … 1448, he married Catherin, daughter of Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham, and died in the city of Coventry the … therefore take a cursorary review, after Leland and Tanner's account. " Werkensop a pretty market town of two streets, …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of land and a Bordar; and the Abbot of Bury St. Edmund's held the other half, with five acres of land, worth twelve … at the present day. A branch of the ancient family of Duke was afterwards long possessed of this manor. Robert Duke … of Norwich. 11 The assignment must, therefore, have taken place prior to the year 1200, for that prelate died on the …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Poleghelegh which bordered Robert of Horkesley's wood in 1290, were probably assarts near the Little … increased from £4 to £6, while the value of the sokemen's holdings remained 40 s. 65 The parish was one of the poorer in Lexden hundred; in …
A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … by an iron bridge in 1898. 42 The modern form of the place name, recorded from 1254, gave rise to two stories of … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … of the district to all parts of the world. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Worsley WORSLEY, a township, … carried into effect. In the 32nd of the same reign, the Duke of Bridgewater obtained an act, and afterwards other …
A History of the County of York
… and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James … statutes the precentor had established his right to second place in the order of precedence, above his rival the … who met in the chapter house for the investiture of James, Duke of York, aged nine; while in June Archbishop Williams …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It stretches N.N.E. from the steep cliffs of St. Aldhelm's Head across an almost flat limestone tableland formed by …