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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 … the second for the relief of insolvent debtors upon your petitioners [unforming?] himself in every other respect to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the sixteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and [fifty one?] [illegible] We whose names are hereunto … now or late in the occupation of Thomas Shelfield and James Wooley as a place of meeting or religious worship … county of Somerset maltster and baker. Sheweth That your petitioners [illegible] are the major part of the creditors …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of Lower Mitton in this county is a very ancient building and now in so ruinous state and much too small for the inhabitants of the said chapelry … therein occasioned by the great increase of families and inhabitants at Stower-Port which place is within the said …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the above prison being continually very full of prisoners and many of them for very capitol crimes your petitioner is … having no assistant allowed to assist him in his charge and the present salary so inadequate to the trust that your … assistance of his majesty's well disposed subjects Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that his majesty's said …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the tythings of Burgham, Perry-Hill, West-End, and Wyke, 1424 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6795 a. 3 r. 34 p., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes through it. The living is a …
A History of the County of York
… Roman canon of the mass, the system of daily offices and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's … victory in 634, called upon the Scottish bishops for help and so brought Aidan to Lindisfarne but it is doubtful how … the vicar's succentor had directed this to be done. 87 The petitions of the Litany were still chanted by two vicars as …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Local government and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES Manor Court books of Worthing manor's … 16th century courts were held not more than once a year, and sometimes not for three or four years. Thereafter they …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… gives name to the hundred, is about nine miles in length and one mile in average breadth; it includes Leith Hill, and comprises 4176 acres, of which 563 are common or waste. … streams rising in the northern declivity of Leith Hill, and which, uniting, fall into the Wey near Shalford: another …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Methodist Sunday school, started in 1823, had 177 pupils, and a Wesleyan one had 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept … 280 children aged 7-13 were still without instruction, 81 and in 1831 a National school opened, albeit with only 109 places, for day and Sunday pupils. 82 Wrockwardine Wood school board, formed …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… [Translation] To all the faithful in Christ, present and to come, who shall see or hear this present writing, … in the Lord. Know all of you, that I, compelled by great and extreme poverty and necessity, with the consent and assent of Agnes, my …