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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the … 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for meeting-house licences. Edward Wilsden was presented in … the morning and 130 in the evening. 72 Soon afterwards the society was split by the secession of Wesleyan Reformers; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wookey (St. Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of … books at 12. 15. 10.: the great tithes have been commuted for 212, and the vicarial for 299. 5.; the glebe comprises 5 … on extensively. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, and Unitarians. Wooler (St. Mary) WOOLER …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a cup and cover-paten of 1571 and a paten of 1816. Royal Arms: In N. aisle, painted wooden panel, George III … mason's rejected stone fragment with incised liningout for cusped window(?) head and spandrel. Loose in N. aisle, … and a grant from the Incorporated Church Building Society. Communion Rails: with plain octagonal balusters, …
A Dictionary of London
… Wool Quay - Wormwood Street Wool Quay At the south end of Water Lane, east of that lane (S. 44). … Bk. E p.232). Woolpack (The), Bow Lane The parsonage house for St. Mary le Bow in 1676 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 23). … 1677-Strype, 1720). See Evangelist Court. Worley's Court, Royal Mint Street See Morley's Court. Wormwood Street East …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… EDUCATION. Margaret Clayton established a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of the charity funds in 1683. 99 In 1781 the vestry resolved to … charity 3 and in 1846 a grant of £30 from the National Society. 4 In 1818 there were 120 children, 5 but in 1825 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground of Tidenham Chase. The … 5 The northern boundary followed the brook at Brockweir for almost a mile and then ran eastwards along the 600-ft. … before 1863 and surviving until c. 1908. 97 A Friendly Society was registered in 1834 and an Independent Benevolent …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of two holding ponds built like the river to provide water for the Royal Ordnance Factory in Puriton parish. 10 The southern … SOCIAL LIFE The Polden Hill and Woolavington Friendly Society, founded 1854, and in the early 20th century the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … The parish comprises 1898 a. 1 r. 17 p.; it is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white … previously to the time of Henry VIII., who constructed a royal dockyard here, which was enlarged by Queen Elizabeth, …
The Environs of London
… how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, … gave the old market-house (where the cage now is) for the use of the poor 4. Manor. Manor of Woolwich, or … The whole of this parish has been decreed to be within the Royal manor of Eltham 5: but the principal estate, which is …