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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Gwillim (d. 1724), variously described between 1664 and 1714 as a labourer, gentleman, and esquire, who had an estate worth £180 in 1714. 77 … of 43, 165, and 100 respectively. 91 The chapel, after union with the Methodists in 1932, remained well attended …
A History of the County of Somerset
… rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern boundaries were marked by watercourses including … council from 1949. It formed part of Bridgwater poor-law union from 1836, from 1894 was part of Bridgewater rural …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WOOLBEDING The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 miles from north … 2 miles. The northern half of the parish is largely common and woodland, and there is another large block of woodland at … carrying before the lord King a bow without a string and a bolt without feathers whenever the King comes in those parts, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the … to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of Edward III. to the convent of Our Lady St. Mary and St. Michael, at Stamford-Baron. Wootton (St. Mary) …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was in use in the 14th century. 93 In 1300 the land … of iron founders, engineers, and agricultural implement makers, Oatley & Morris, later Oatley & Whatley, began … and £250. 27 Wootton Rivers became part of Pewsey poor-law union in 1835, 28 and of Kennet district in 1974. 29 CHURCH. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Sheweth That your peticioner is a protestant dissenter and that a licence was granted by this court at Easter sessions 1739 allowing and appointing your peticioner's dwelling house in the town … standing at the corner of Ednell [illegible] Lane there and late in the possession of John Freeman and John Williams …
History Theses 1901-1970
… The Calvinist tradition in education in France, Scotland and New England during the 16th and 17th centuries. I. Cassidy. Belfast Ph.D. 1966. A study … M.F.C. Ward. London M.Phil. 1970. Germany, the Soviet Union and world disarmament, 192633. Mrs. Pauline E. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable arable farming was recorded from the … poor'. 93 Farm labourers joined the Tendring hundred trade union c. 1836, 94 and in 1850 men working at Long Acres farm … work included osier peeling at Bottengoms for basket makers. The number of domestic servants declined from 25 in …