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A History of the County of Essex
… school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. … 90 to 69 and some supporters withdrew their subscriptions on the ground that the school encouraged delinquency and … were opened in 1910, an art and handicraft block, an assembly hall, and a science block in 1937, and a boarders' …
A History of the County of Essex
… evidently in existence by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In … mead, 'the Parson's Grove', and another acre of wood on the north side of Jack of Lea's Grove. 20 In 1840 there … Wesleyan Connexion. Having failed to persuade the U.M.F.C. Assembly to agree to this, they seceded and began to hold …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… covers 2,594 acres in a broad strip of land extending from the R. Allen in the W. to the Dorset Heathlands in the E. … Allen at about 140 ft. above O.D. the land rises gently, on Chalk, to a low N.-S. ridge capped by Reading Beds, about … N. extension is said to have been formerly a Methodist assembly room. (10) ' Park House' (05610809), a cottage of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They … c. 1874 on Oxford Street included on the north the Royal Assembly Rooms, for long one of the town's principal meeting …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a … 36 s. 10 The site of New Woodstock, a well drained plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, … Siddons (d. 1831) acted there. 60 In the 1870s the Royal Assembly Rooms were built at the King's Arms hotel, and used …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of … situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a place … There are a small theatre in Christian-street, and an assembly and news room in the Square. The Hall, the ancient …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… [...ance?], losse and anoyance, of soe manye of the sayd parishe as [ha...?] [illegible] [illegible] [...eere?] unto the sayde cottage witheout that by your good meanes and … [illegible] tratours and in due execution of justice and [on?] her majesties [lawe...?] [illegible] [illegible] the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1600s Ellioner Reeve. Ref.110 BA1/1/16/29 (1601) To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others … for viii pence a weeke. And was so paid by the space of on yere and more and then departed the cuntry. So the said … aforesaide and especially the greate rott and unlawfull assembly done the last sabaoth being Whit Sondaye by fortie …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Geffrey Howsman of Ammersley. Ref.110 BA1/1/25/1 (1616) To the right worshipfull [illegible] [illegible] his majesties justices of the peace for the county of Wegorn. The humble peticion of … contrarye informacion to the right worshipful the justices on the benche that I shuld [have?] certaine goods of the said …