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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. … is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One … in England is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th and 19th. The …
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, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from … of its situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… yt please your worshipps, that whereas at [Michaellmas?] and Trinitye sessions last past there was a bill of [complaynt?] and two severall certificattes preferred by us the … house the same nere adjoyneinge to his barne maye maye adventure his whole howse with fyer that the tyme beinge …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… there are many poore men to the number of thirty persons and upwardes who lye there, some upon their behaviour and the most part of the rest upon matters of small or noe … wold unchristianlike be starved to death with hunger cold and nakednes, some of them alsoe haveing many poore children …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1620s Thomas Pirkes and eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To … of Richard Emmes was born in our sayed [town?] [illegible] and her sayed husband being now common servant [illegible] worship and other inhabitants (and having lived in [Fladbury?] …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, and to all others whom it shall or may concerne Wee whose … and sold for 14 shillings, but was bought off by a friend at [Bristoll?] for two pounds, having received … condition, haveing neither father or mother or any other friend to goe to, and the officers of the parish of Tenbury …
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) … the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your worships have been pleased at some … course of law, and since your petitioner hath not had any friend to supply him with money to pay his fees whereby your …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of our poore (to whom we pay 4 shillings per pound) and all manner of provisions soe excessive deer, by means … the poore are reduced soe low in their very smale estates and mean imployments, that they are not able to mainteine … favourably pleased to consider our necessitous condicions and either to annex and joyn us unto Claynes being our parish …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. … whose hands are hereto subscribed being the churchwardens and overseers of the poore and other inhabitants of the parish of Saint Clement lyeing …