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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the above prison being continually very full of prisoners and many of them for very capitol crimes your petitioner is … having no assistant allowed to assist him in his charge and the present salary so inadequate to the trust that your … county. That your petitioner not having any relations or friend who are enabled to assist him or any trade whereby he …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… see the conquerour made it) had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two … with Mary queen of Scots, he was betrayed by a pretended friend, was attainted in parliament and beheaded June 2, …
A History of the County of Essex
… bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 miles south-east of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a. (929 ha.). 33 The Stour forms the northern boundary, and the eastern, southern, and western ones follow mainly field boundaries, but …
A History of the County of York
… Roman canon of the mass, the system of daily offices and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's … victory in 634, called upon the Scottish bishops for help and so brought Aidan to Lindisfarne but it is doubtful how … worship may have persisted even after the Synod of Whitby and the Council of Cloveshoo, for Alcuin, in a letter to the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had two houses registered for worship in Worthing in 1800 and 1803. 84 The Independent, later Congregational, chapel in … Portland Road, was built in 1804. 85 It had been repaired and improved by 1817, 86 there was a Sunday school of 80 children c. 1826, 87 and the chapel was enlarged and refronted in the 1840s. 88 In …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Social and cultural activites Social and cultural activities. The entertainment facilities … a monthly periodical, the Worthing Messenger and Workmen's Friend, which was supported by subscriptions and circulated …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… gives name to the hundred, is about nine miles in length and one mile in average breadth; it includes Leith Hill, and comprises 4176 acres, of which 563 are common or waste. … streams rising in the northern declivity of Leith Hill, and which, uniting, fall into the Wey near Shalford: another …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine, a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the western boundary is mostly with Wroxeter parish and to the east lies the northern part of Telford new town. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the village, comprises 4627 a. 11 p. of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; the soil is fertile, producing good crops of wheat, barley, and oats. The village is beautifully situated on elevated … vale of Salop, the Breddyn hills in North Wales, and, in another direction, the plains of Cheshire, and the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. to … area here treated, contained 515 a. in 1882. 8 Its eastern and western boundaries followed no natural features or roads … the township. In 1884 the township became a civil parish and was enlarged to 914 a. by the transfer of Hortonwood and …