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A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … the dean was ordered to see to a Scotchman who had been preaching and uttering 'leude and disordered speeches.' 526 A … to 'the Commissioners for the Approbation of Public Preachers.' 544 Some of the tithes belonging to the college …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the Presbyterian Thomas Ford, who lived in Winshill and apparently preached there as well as at a conventicle in … that year. 7 A chapel was built on waste ground in 1845, and on Census Sunday 1851 it had an afternoon congregation of … p. 277. Englesea Brook Chapel Archive, Primitive Methodist preachers' plan, Burton circuit, 1831; Burton Libr., D. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… there was a church at Winstone by the mid 11th century, 33 and in 1101 or 1102 Henry I confirmed an earlier grant by … 34 The living was first recorded as a rectory in 1304 35 and has remained one; it was united with Miserden in 1928 36 … Winstone was joined to the united benefice of Elkstone and Syde. 37 The first recorded presentation to the living …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the chapel had a congregation of 27 for morning service and 50 in the afternoon. There was a Sunday school attached. … Barrett, the village blacksmith, in its early years and possibly met in the meeting-room adjoining a cottage on … 91, f. 88. Hockaday Abs. ccccix; cf. above, p. 37. Glos. and Herefs. Bapt. Yr. Bk. (1969-70), 30; cf. H.O. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, with the church and village on the firm silt land at the north-east end, just … The alterations made under the county Review Order of 1933 and the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… those of Elizabeth Wright, Abraham Jobson, Judith Mayer, and William Watson have already been dealt with. 69 John … 1651, gave the Black Bull Inn (later the 'Three Tuns' and now the New Inn) with its shops, oil mills, and other appurtenances to the capital burgesses, with …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY In 1638 unlawful meetings and conventicles were held in Wisbech at the house of Thomas … congregation, of which at the same time Edmund Smith and Israel Cave were elected elders. 82 Wisbech does not … with 139 in March, 43 in Doddington, 96 in Whittlesey, and 67 in Littleport. 83 No licences were issued in respect …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a century later. A school for boys was opened in 1707 and one for girls in 1710; both schools were supported by … 70 In 1709 there were 50 boys at school, who had 'caps and bands &c. given them, to distinguish them from other … with the wishes of the foundress, as follows: £2 2 s. for sermons on St. Paul's and St. Barnabas' Days, £85 to 100 aged …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 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 … of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and comprised 256 a., was added to it between 1882 and 1891. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the … in which 'the poor of the borough are placed'; when and how it was acquired is not known. By the 1760s it had …