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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Parish church and church life PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century … in the archbishopric of Dublin and chancellorship of Ireland. 50 His predecessor Roger Foliot (rector 134059) and …
A History of the County of Essex
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. One Quaker and a few Anabaptists were recorded in 1664. 69 John Argor (d. 1679), who had been ejected from the church at Braintree, was licensed as a Presbyterian … vies, in a barn. His successor, George Carter Needham, an Irish evangelist, rented the Swedenborgian chapel for six …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization is described … abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … recorded in 1592, is probably also significant. 59 An Irish tailor lived in the parish in 1394. 60 A Wolvercote …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… wood ashes] Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of … to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It … although most wool was supplied by the Midlands and later Ireland [Kerridge (1985)]. Worsted was a well twisted YARN …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … 2 May, 1581, aged 16. Worth, Edward s. Joh., of Dublin, Ireland, cler. Merton Coll., matric. 18 Dec., 1693, aged 15, …
The Environs of London
… Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies … hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by … his wife and children, who were robbed by the rebels in Ireland, three of their children having been starved to death …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodyates, West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of … is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been … was chancellor to Edward VI., and Sir Robert secretary for Ireland in the reign of Charles II. It is now the property of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … a popular stopping place for travellers on the 'great Irish road'. 49 The development of coaching in Woodstock was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 … slight opposition to the duke in 1802 when an unknown Irish nabob, William Camac (? Carnac), attracted a few votes, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. … rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern … of the Carthusian house at Witham and bishop of Killala (Ireland) 1459-61, who in 1480 let his vicarage for 3 years to …