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The Environs of London
… hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by Chigwell, Chingford, Walthamstow, Wanstead, and Barking. It contains about 2000 acres of land, of which … Mr. Warner bequeathed all his valuable books to Wadham College in Oxford, (where he received his education,) and …
A History of the County of Essex
… at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of … was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and Woodford was formed. … built in the grounds as halls of residence for Queen Mary College and the old house had been converted as a library and …
A History of the County of Essex
… does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its incumbent has always been styled a rector. But part … composition was made in 1224 between the abbot of Waltham and the rector of Woodford to settle certain divisions of … London Itinerant Society, and students from the countess's college at Cheshunt, had preached on the Green, and later in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres. Here is a mineral spring, with baths, an hotel, and other accommodations for visiters. The water resembles … 1; bicarbonate of soda, 6; iodine, 0. 55; bromine, 8. 35; and of potash, a trace: its specific gravity is 1016. The … books at 22. 8. 4.; net income, 392; patrons, Exeter College, Oxford. The church contains an altar-tomb …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… Entry Dr Grent said that Thomas Sterlinge petitioned the College against W, the wife of Robert W. W denied practising … of the complaint patient Second initiator of the complaint college member Attitude of the accused absent Action taken ? …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… 1596 Entry Mrs W of Hogginton appeared, brought by Vaughan and Chandler, royal judges. She said that pepper was cold, violets and strawberries cold and dry. She used Diaprun. & Hamech. as … stars, and others by sorcery. Initiator of the complaint college member Attitude of the accused confessed Action taken …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals … John sold the reversion of a 100-year lease to Balliol College, Oxford, which became sole owner in 1707. In 1620 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the site was later found inconvenient and in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town … (d. 1619), 10 s. a year, 90 and Henry Hopkins of Exeter College, Oxford (d. 1643), 4 s. a year. 91 Bread …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … rural deanery was established by the mid 13th century, and the rectors of Bladon were often called rectors of … of Oxford colleges. William Laud, president of St. John's College and later archbishop of Canterbury, 89 preached many …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … Woodstock property, which passed c. 1453 to Magdalen College, Oxford; by then it was difficult to collect rents …