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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1740 The humble peticion of Henry Crane of Bromsgrove in the county of Worcester Sheweth That your peticioner is a … allowing and appointing your peticioner's dwelling house in the town of Bromsgrove aforesaid to be a place of religious worship for protestant dissenters but in regard a messuage in the town of Bromsgrove aforesaid …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of the inhabitants of the chapelry of Lower Mitton in the parish of Kidderminster in the county of Worcester Sheweth That the chapel of Lower Mitton in this county is a very ancient building and now in so …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the justices of the county of Worcester assembled in sessions The humble petition of Charles Faulkner keeper of … the said prison having no assistant allowed to assist him in his charge and the present salary so inadequate to the … think meet to enable him to support the charge entrust in him with safety. And your worships petitioner will as in …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… steward of it for the Conqueror, who retained the manor in his own hands. Roger de Montford also possessed an estate … sixpence, and paid one thousand herrings. There were also in this parish two churches, to which belonged forty acres of … five acres of land, worth twelve pence. These estates, in all probability, formed the manors of Great and Little …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. In 1328 free warren was granted on Wormingford Hall manor. 25 Courts leet, recorded for Church Hall manor in the 15th century, handled transfers of holdings and … failing to clean ditches and repair boundary marks, taking in lodgers, keeping an unlicensed alehouse, allowing animals …
A History of the County of York
… Worship in the Minster WORSHIP IN THE MINSTER The Middle Ages It has been said 1 that the … in the minster, stated that it had been customary for the masters of the choristers to play the organ. 28 The earliest …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Education EDUCATION. The first schools in Worthing were apparently for visitors' children, and by … their successors, the private schools, became important in the town. 94 In 1833 there were four day schools and three boarding …
A History of the County of Sussex
… from 1789, 11 and their number increased from c. 30 in 1804 to c. 60 by 1813. 12 Three hotels had been built by … the Royal Sea House and afterwards the Royal, Hotel, were in South Street. 13 Both were rebuilt in the 1820s. 14 The Royal Hotel, designed by J. B. Rebecca, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wothersome - Wrayton Wothersome WOTHERSOME, a township, in the parish of Bardsey, Lower division of the wapentake of … inhabitants. It comprises about 600 acres of land, set out in three farms. Wotton (St. John the Evangelist) WOTTON ( St. John the Evangelist), a parish, in the union of Dorking, First division of the hundred of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WREA, Lancashire.See Ribby. Wreay WREAY, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Mary, union of Carlisle, Cumberland … the sermon is preached from the butt of a black oak, cut in imitation of the sigilaria or antediluvian palm-tree; and … boldly carved. There are numerous figures and ornaments in and about the communiontable, and other parts of the …