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Alumni Oxonienses
… Inns of Court Reg. Nourse, John s. Walter, of Pevent (Newent), co. Gloucester, arm. University Coll., matric. 10 … Feb., 1657-8, fellow 1658-73, M.A. 17 Dec., 1660; born at Newent, co. Gloucester, entered into holy orders, changed his … religion for that of Rome; died 21 July, 1699; buried at Newent. See Ath. i. p. lxxv, & iv. 448; & Hearne, i. 3, 198. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for exhibition to London, where it excited much curiosity. Newent (Virgin Mary) NEWENT ( Virgin Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head … September 8th. The powers of the county debt-court of Newent, established in 1847, extend over the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Newent - Economic History ECONOMIC HISTORY The small town of Newent was created in a predominantly agricultural area and … of a coalfield near by foundered in the 19th century and Newent was drawn ever more into the economic orbit of …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Newent - Introduction NEWENT THE town of Newent stands 12 km (7 miles) north-west of Gloucester close … road improvements, and the promotion of a spa, but Newent remained small, providing marketing and local …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Newent - Local Government LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANORIAL AND … of liberties to its inhabitants by Cormeilles abbey, the Newent manor court retained a paramount position against the … presumably from the time of the royal grant of a market at Newent in 1253 that Cormeilles abbey allowed its tenants in …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Newent - Manors and Estates MANORS AND ESTATES At the time of the Norman Conquest the royal manor of Newent covered the bulk of Newent parish as later constituted, but a manor called …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Newent - Religious History RELIGIOUS HISTORY ORIGIN AND … 8th or early 9th century discovered, probably in situ, in Newent churchyard. A second carved stone, a small rectangular … in the same ownership in the late 12th century. In 1181 Newent church with its tithes, together with the churches of …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Newent - Settlement SETTLEMENT In the late Anglo-Saxon period Newent, as a substantial constituent of the royal estate at … 9th century. 17 Following the Norman Conquest the manor of Newent became the property of Cormeilles abbey, which …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Newent - Social History SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL LIFE AND SOCIAL … In the early Middle Ages Cormeilles abbey 13 dominated Newent as founder of its market town, chief lord of much of … the parish church. Its local administrators, the priors of Newent, were all or mostly Frenchmen from Normandy, including …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… Newent and May Hill NEWENT AND MAY HILL 1. May hill: view from the south-west at … northwards to the county boundary with the town of Newent at its centre, contained ten ancient parishes, namely Bromesberrow, Dymock, Huntley, Kempley, Longhope, Newent, Oxenhall, Pauntley, Preston, and Taynton. The whole …