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A History of the County of Chester
… Recovery from the plagues of 1603-5 was hampered by national economic difficulties and by recurrent, though … retailers. 5 Indeed, after Chester was brought within the national customs system in 1559 the corporation and the … concern with education during the period, when the King's school was administered by the dean and chapter. 4 CULTURAL …
A History of the County of Chester
… By 1700 the city was publicizing its markets and fairs in national and local newspapers. 16 The city played an … Oxford, and thus passed with the Harleian manuscripts into national ownership in 1753. 10 The main scholarly writers in …
A History of the County of Chester
… cathedral, and shared in the foundation of the Blue Coat school. He and Dean Lawrence Fogge (1692-1718) also promoted …
A History of the County of Chester
… about the employment of outsiders by company widows. 6 National legislation in 1647 and 1654 exempted from …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… B 3/2, pp. 80, 95, 105; G 3/SO 3, ff. 147v.148. For high national mortality in 15967 due to famine and related …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… remove the conservative John Bird as master of the Crypt school and to replace him with the distinguished puritan John … who was born in Gloucester about 1580, attended a petty school there in Elizabeth I's reign. 44 The children of … to one of the two grammar schools in the city, the College school at the cathedral and the Crypt school. The College …
A History of the County of Oxford
… presence of the university Oxford reacted sharply to great national events; bonfires and disturbances followed quickly … exceptionsthe cathedral, St. Mary's church, the Divinity School, parts of Magdalen, Merton, and New Collegethe Oxford … early 17th brought an increase in population and rents. 75 National demographic changes and a revival of internal trade, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… otherwise stated, and read first from E. to W. The Normal National Grid References are in 100-kilometre square TL (52) … the fork (c), formerly visible as a ridge across the Perse School playing-fields, was destroyed in 1910. The position … Downing College athletics ground and the County Girls' School playing-field some 30 yards wide and 1 ft. high in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Some schools for boys and girls, in connexion with the National Society, are endowed with the interest of 1000 … for 130, and the glebe land here consists of two acres. A school was founded at Dale-Head in 1732, and endowed with … Wesleyan Methodists; also a Roman Catholic chapel. A free school was founded in 1781, by Mrs. Eleanor Westerman, who …