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A History of the County of Essex
… the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with … called Cockaynes, in Elmstead and Alresford, and Kelars or Rebandishide, in Elm stead, except in the reigns of Henry …
A History of the County of Essex
… One Quaker and a few Anabaptists were recorded in 1664. 69 John Argor (d. 1679), who had been ejected from … at Braintree, was licensed as a Presbyterian teacher in 1672. He had a congregation at Wivenhoe, which prob- ably met in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wollaston (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of … the livings of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the … This parish is divided into the North and South sides or divisions, embracing 10,380 acres, whereof 2036 are …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wollaton, Olaveston WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called … a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. 1 There afterwards Warner the man of … four car. small wood, one leuc. long, one qu. broad. In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 100s. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote, which seem to have been completely reorganized in the later Middle Ages, probably in the later 14th century, when Godstow abbey consolidated … South, East, and West. 93 The arrangement of the fields or furlongs for crop rotation before the 19th century is not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Education There appears to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of the 19th century when dame or 'petty' schools were recorded. 76 A Sunday school, started in 1813 on the 'new' or National system, closed shortly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th century. The south-eastern part of the … Wolvercote, was absorbed into the built-up area of Oxford in the earlier 20th century, and in 1929 the whole of the … Eaton in 1588. 35 The treatment, from the 16th century or earlier, of the demesne land and site of Godstow abbey as …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Local government Local government In 1279 Godstow abbey had view of frankpledge in Wolvercote, and the royal bailiff had entry into the manor … and he and his successors held courts until 1651 or later. 96 St. Frideswide's priory had view of frankpledge …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was presumably a way … the road from Watling Street to Shifnal, first mentioned in 1335. 70 Watling Street and the road via Priorslee to Shifnal were turnpiked in 1726. The latter, bounding Snedshill coppice to the west, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, … 500 metres south-east of Wombridge church in 1847. 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge …