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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY THE principal printed works cited in this volume are the volumes of the Victoria County History of Somerset, the … DD/WBF), ecclesiastical and civil parishes (D/P/, D/PC/), nonconformist congregations (D/N/, DD/SFR), the County …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… Bibury BIBURY The Large Rural Parish of Bibury lies 10.5 km. north-east of … 77 In the 19th century the hamlet expanded considerably. A nonconformist chapel, schoolroom, and manse were built near … was sold in 1966 and a new one built. 792 In Winson one nonconformist was recorded in 1676 793 and seven in 1806. 794 …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… a large village, situated nine miles east of Leicester on the main road to Uppingham. The area of the civil parish is over 2,000 a. but the ancient parish and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Birch Education EDUCATION. In 1716 the rector of Great Birch was paying towards a small school … school for boys. 38 By 1819 there were two day schools in the parish with c. 70 pupils. They seem to have continued in … in 1839, but only two small dame schools by 1846. A nonconformist Sunday school with 50 pupils reported in 1818 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bisley Introduction BISLEY Bisley lies on the north side of the valley of the river Frome roughly equidistant from … populated mainly by cottage weavers, fostered some early nonconformist meetings and in the 19th century, during the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… NONCONFORMITY. Bisley parish had a Presbyterian meeting in the late 17th century and Baptists and Quakers were also … preached at Chalford in 1739 and 1742. 41 The oldest nonconformist meeting was that called France Meeting, which … was rebuilt as a Sunday schoolroom. 62 At Eastcombe, where nonconformist meetings were being held by 1742, 63 Particular …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… church stands 2 km. south-east of Calne church. 2 In the 10th century or earlier the land which became the parish was almost certainly part of … Green, c. 11 houses and cottages stood there, 48 and a nonconformist chapel was built there in 1866. 49 Of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and one or two protestant dissenters in 1682 and 1683, no nonconformist was recorded in Bladon until 1820 when the house of John Sumner, later a Methodist local preacher, was licensed as a meeting house. 37 At first the Bladon Methodists were organized jointly with those of …
Old and New London
… works I see! Lo! stately streets. Lo! squares that court the breeze." Thomson. Southampton (afterwards Bedford) … in the Fields"A Curious AdvertisementRichard Baxter, the Nonconformist DivineAn Anecdote about Dr. … for their pains." In this square lived Richard Baxter, the Nonconformist divine, at the time of his persecution by Judge …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 10 James I CHAP. X. During the reign of James I. By the extinction of the direct line of the English royal family with Elizabeth, …