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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. 1 r. 17 p.; it is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white … each story: the floorings are of asphalte; the whole is fire-proof, and ventilation is effected by a revolving fan …
The Environs of London
… to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on … banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the distance of nine miles from London. The parish is … gave the old market-house (where the cage now is) for the use of the poor 4. Manor. Manor of Woolwich, or …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was in use in the 14th century. 93 In 1300 the land … wall was rebuilt in brick in the 18th century. After a fire in 1978 the house was raised from 1½ storey to 2 storeys … and of the late 16th century or early 17th, unusually for Wootton Rivers was built on an L plan. By 1732 cottages, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, … The forces of Hardicanute, having plundered and set fire to the town, attacked the inhabitants in their place of … ground, they spread themselves over the open country, for the sake of pillage; and the garrison, taking advantage …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the right worshipfull his majesties justices of the bench at the sessions of the peace holden for the county of Wigorn The humble peticion of the poore … there are many poore men to the number of thirty persons and upwardes who lye there, some upon their behaviour and the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… here delivered of a bastard sonne who prooveth impotent, and shortly after the said Clarke brought a bond and … as the said Clarke affirmed was an able man) was bound for savegard of the said parishe harmles touching the said … the matter was and by searchinge with a lanterne and a candle there [illegible] found abowt a crowne of ytt which he …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the right worshippfull his majesties justices of the peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, and to all others whom it shall or may concerne Wee whose … whereunto he was sent with many other to his majesties garrison of Tanger, where he continued for the space of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) … certifie unto your good worships, that the said Maund hath for these many years wholely declined his trade, giving … times he has been [heard?] [illegible] to threaten to fire his own houseing and [consequ...?] [illegible] effect …