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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: the industrial revolution in Witney c.1800-1900 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WITNEY, c. … a tenth of the working population in 1851 were farmers or agricultural labourers, with another 3 per cent engaged in … Newfoundland, Bermuda, and Australia, as well as from Scotland and much of southern England, 50 and in 1895 both …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged … March, 1685-6, aged 20. [ 16] Woodcock, Lawrence (Wudcocke or Wodecocke) fellow New Coll. 1508-20, from St. … D.Med. 1699; one of these names F.R.S., died at Kersie in Scotland 20 Aug., 1761. Wright, Francis of Balliol Coll., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of … This place was honoured by a visit from James VI. of Scotland, on his route to take possession of the crown of … survey. It comprises 3725 acres, of which 40 are common or waste. About a mile from the church is Edwin Hall, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woolminstone - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division … as the basin deepens; it is filled by the river tide, or by a steam-engine situated a few hundred yards from the … whose wife was lineally descended from Robert II., King of Scotland. The Ordnance chapel, on the road to Plumstead, a …
The Environs of London
… Woolwich WOOLWICH. Name. THIS place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, &c. I … is) for the use of the poor 4. Manor. Manor of Woolwich, or Southall in Woolwich. The whole of this parish has been … Isabel Muir, was lineally descended from Robert King of Scotland. Colonel Adam Williamson, their only son, married …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a SP 75 NW, b SP 75 NE) Wootton parish, 702 hectares in area, lies S. of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is … Record Cards). They may have been from either this parish or Hardingstone. A coin of Constantine I (AD 30637) was … de Bidun. The first Walter de Bidun, also Chancellor of Scotland, died in 1178 (Powicke and Fryde 1961, 173). This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … Warwickshire. Osric, either repairing the Roman fortress, or erecting another in this city, which by the Saxons was … views of the surrounding country, the sea, and part of Scotland. Upon the Cloffocks, an extra-parochial meadow or …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… his trade, giving himself alltogether to begging, both in the town and country, comitting what he gains thereby, to … common drunkard; a railer, and will abuse any of the town or parish with most base and opprobrious language. In brief, … your worships will pray James Marshall and four others of Scotland, chapmen. Ref.110 BA1/1/148/57 (1685) To the right …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… & RADFORD. Elsi before the Norman invasion had two manors in Werchesope, which paid to the geld as three car. The land being then sufficient for eight plows or eight car. 1 There afterwards Roger de Busli (whose see … routed the Scots at Flodden field, where James the 4th of Scotland was slain, for which great services he had an …