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A History of the County of Oxford
… NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th … of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local Lollardy: in the 1520s … 1730s by John Ward, son of a Whig draper from Coleshill (Warws.). 43 In 1738 the meeting was still reckoned to include …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wollaton, Olaveston WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called … four car. small wood, one leuc. long, one qu. broad. In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 100s. … The family of Mortein were the next successours to Warner in this place, of which Robert de Mortein lived in King Henry …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote, which seem to have been completely reorganized in the later Middle Ages, probably in the later 14th century, when Godstow abbey consolidated … he held land in Hanborough, Chipping Norton, and Coventry (Warws.), in most of which he was succeeded by his nephew …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from … obliterated by the construction of the Huntspill River in 1940. Some of the southern boundary is a lane or footpath. … Eliz. I East. Burke, Peerage (1949), 186; Visit. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 88-9; S.R.O., DD/BW 122. Below, this …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of … the abbey, and it was still occasionally called a chapel in the 14th century, 44 but no reference has been found to … of Duntisbourne Rouse (Glos.), and vicar of Stoneleigh (Warws.), and for a time he was curate of Begbroke, but his …