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A History of the County of Hampshire
… in his reign, characteristically ignoring his predecessor's charter, doubled the number of days allowed by his … year 1162 we have a hint of the extension of the bishop's fair from the crest of St. Giles Down toward the Eastgate … Saturday in February, a cattle, horse, sheep, pigs and pleasure fair on 23 and 24 October. The latter was until the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In the reign of his youngest son we hear 3 of a fine paid … 9 The proceedings customary at Winchester for the landlord's recovery of the land when rent was in arrear are of … 0 s. 10 d., and seems to have held office at the episcopal pleasure. He was generally assisted by two 'servientes' or …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Archbishop of Canterbury, who to the Bishop of Salisbury's claim that Windsor Castle was in his diocese successfully … be surrendered and regranted, to be held during the king's pleasure only, not for terms of years or for life. 377 It was … church, 527 and in 1588 he was ordered to examine the parson of Sonning, who was reported to have 'badde and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Northwich, Second division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 1 mile (N. W.) from … Bodmin, hundred of West, E. division of Cornwall, 2 miles (S. E.) from Lostwithiel; containing 1056 inhabitants, and … extent, but it has of late greatly diminished. A pleasure-fair is held on the Thursday in Whitsun-week. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterborne Monkton 48 WINTERBORNE MONKTON (6787) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 68 NE, bSY 69 SE) The modern parish of … Monkton, covering just over 1,200 acres immediately S.S.W. of Dorchester, lies across the valley of the South …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Chapeiry of Parson Drove CHAPELRY OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry … date a gap 130 yards wide was made, probably at Abel's Gull. Parts of the country-side were flooded to a depth of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… place, the fen portion of the ancient parish, containing Parson Drove (q.v.), has been separated both for civil and … Gorefield, and westwards along Leverington Common towards Parson Drove. The Bedford Level Act of 1663 4 authorized the … 2 acres. Before this time various creeks, such as Carlton's Creek, 5 penetrated a long way inland and allowed the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… through these and neighbouring parishes. Such are Popham's Eau, an early 17thcentury cut to guide the waters of the old Nene into the Ouse at Salter's Lode; the Old Bedford River (part of the south-east … by 1864, when the fair, on 29 and 30 June, was merely a pleasure mart. 21 Two extents of the manor, made about the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parishes of the Isle. The tradition that St. Mary's church was the mother church of Wisbech is rendered … £12,600, and sold after his death to Francis Saunders of Parson Drove. After being in the Culy family it was purchased … thirteen years later. The parish includes Southea in Parson Drove. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… St. Mary). The fact that the three obtained £1, 15 s., and 10 s. respectively in a division of certain charitable funds in … from the east coast resorts. There are secondary roads to Parson Drove and Crowland (B 1169), March via Elm and Friday …