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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 … at Windsor that Henry received as a present from the new Pope Clement VII 'a tree forged of fine gold and wrought with … a grete wonder to all true subjects that you will either assent or suffer his Majesties most royall persone to remaine …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… marsh land, between the Roman Bank and the Nene outfall, to the owners of commonable messuages or tenements in … 2 acres. Before this time various creeks, such as Carlton's Creek, 5 penetrated a long way inland and allowed the … of the aldermen and brethren of the guilds, and 6 acres in Pope's Lane Field, Leverington, for the priest of St. John's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1 on the left (north-west) bank of the Nene. It appears to have emerged from Wisbech (St. Peter) in 1109 when Wisbech … parishes of the Isle. The tradition that St. Mary's church was the mother church of Wisbech is rendered … the dean and chapter, but documentary evidence is slight. Pope Gregory IX, c. 1231, con-' firmed 160 acres in the marsh …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a corporate borough for the first time, cost £260 10 s. 10 d. 46 The burgesses were given the right of perpetual … succession and the use of a common seal. 47 They were to hold the guild property in socage, and were licensed to … was to be appointed by the ten capital burgesses with the assent of ten other burgesses. Wisbech thus enjoyed a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … the name Crundell (later Corn) Street referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and … followed from bequests to children, as when William Pope, gardener, left his house to his daughter Mary in 1760, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited goods usually … and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors … 191 In 1730 the churchwardens and overseers, with the assent of the vestry, rented part of a house on the east side …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … the number of persons regularly employed varies from 800 to 1000. The markets are on Tuesday and Saturday, at the … that prelate was first informed, by a letter from the pope, of his elevation to the dignity of cardinal. James I. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles … on the east bank of the river Colne where it widens to form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Church Church A chapel of ease at Wolvercote subject to the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, was first … the inhabitants of Wolvercote successfully petitioned the pope for the consecreation of a graveyard. 6 A further appeal to the pope in 1416, against Wolvercote's liability to contribute a third of the cost of repairs to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ … extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th … (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then common to Yarnton and Begbroke, lay north of Wolvercote. To the east …