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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1790s Charles Faulkner, keeper of the Worcestershire bridewell. Ref.110 BA1/1/521/31 (1790) … bridewell July 13th 1790 To the worshipful the justices of the county of Worcester assembled in sessions The humble … of the said chapelry his majesty's most gratious letters patent under the great seal of Great Britain to …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of meadow, pasture wood two leu. long, three quar. broad. In the time of Edward the confessour this was valued at 3l. when the …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Worlingham Worlingham. Ulf, a free-man of Gurth, the brother of Harold, held Worlingham at the time of the Survey, and Roger Bigot was steward of it for the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Introduction WORMINGFORD THE ancient parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 … used the part of the Stour in Wormingford. 44 In 1843 letters were received through the Colchester post office, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of Wokeing, W. division of Surrey, 3 miles (N. N. W.) from …
A History of the County of York
… It has been said 1 that the earliest liturgical traditions of the north were closely linked with Rome: this is perhaps … a share was less desirable. In 1159 Pope Alexander III by letters mandatory to Archbishop Roger ordered that none … Fab. R. 317 n. Stat. Cath. Ch. York, 99-100. Works and Letters Dennis Granville, i. (Sur. Soc. 37), 182; G. Ornsby, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WORTHING The Present article 51 deals with the history of Worthing hamlet until c. 1800, and thereafter with that of the town as it was enlarged by the successive boundary … was almost deserted when the wind was in a certain direction, and the value of houses on the front was greatly …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Communications Communications. The hamlet of Worthing before c. 1800 was linked to Broadwater by a road following the line of the modern road, and by a footpath leading north from the north end of the modern High Street. The line of the latter was still …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Growth of the town Growth of the town. In the 18th century, and probably earlier, the … streets. The layout of streets was influenced by the direction of strips in the open fields which preceded them; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Wrayton Wothersome WOTHERSOME, a township, in the parish of Bardsey, Lower division of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 3 miles (S.) … established and endowed by Lady Catherine Berkeley, under letters-patent from Richard II., in 1385; and it being …