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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… village about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, which in 1934 was increased by 551 acres from … Sea in Newton. 27 Sir John Colvile IV, his eldest son, was sheriff in 1459 and died ten years later. 28 His eldest …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Tydd St. Giles TYDD ST. GILES Tydd St. Giles, the northernmost parish in Cambridgeshire, is situated 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the … who in 1601 married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Osborne, Sheriff of London and Lord Mayor in 1583. In 1613 Welby …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Port, Nene outfall, canal PORT, NENE OUTFALL, CANAL The original combined outfall of the Ouse and Nene, by Wisbech, had been diverted along Well … and was M.P. for South Cambridgeshire from 1865 and Sheriff of London in 1871. 40 He was Mayor of Wisbech from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… centre WISBECH AS A COMMERCIAL CENTRE Wisbech is now the commercial centre of the southern marshland, and the title 'Capital of the Fens', … haberdasher (1668). Corp. Rec. iv, 165, 170. High Sheriff of Cambs. 1760. Created Knight Bachelor, 24 Jan. 1761 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a … Sir Richard, the two last-named both holding the office of sheriff. Sir Richard (d. 1540) was succeeded by his son …
A History of the County of Oxford
… economic life 1500 to 1800 ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by … innkeepers were bailiffs, 166 and in the 1780s another was sheriff's officer. 167 Most inn- or alehouse keepers brewed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured … toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited goods usually belonging to the king; and the right to deliver and return royal writs, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The … that William de Mortein, who was several years High Sheriff of the Counties of Warewick and Leicester, and …
A Dictionary of London
… Wollewharf See Wool Quay. Wolsies Gate A water gate in the roparie, in parish of All Hallows the Less, of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of … of timber.) Secondly, that it was named after Thos. Wood Sheriff, 1491. But as shown above, the street received its …
Alumni Oxonienses
… for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … lecturer of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, 1641; one of the assembly of divines; rector of St. Mildred Poultry, … of Poyle, Surrey, and of Alvington Court, co. Gloucester, sheriff Surrey 1688, knighted 19 May, 1681, M.P. Haslemere …