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A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … visited regularly, chiefly for law days, licensing sessions, or royal visits; they were sometimes paid a special …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… WOOL (8486) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both … Municipal Records) and again in 1688 (D.C.R.O., Quarter Sessions Records), this date with the initials F.T. being …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. … A court book for both manors covers the years 1709-35. Sessions were termed manor courts or courts baron and were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … sovereigns, on their visit to this country after the peace of 1814, and presented by that monarch to the garrison. …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, … of the ordinary and the convicts, is about 1140; the peace-establishment is somewhat less 53. There is a ropewalk …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary … century, each having a chief constable appointed at the sessions. 35 V.C.H. Oxon. ii. 2223. Ibid. 224. Woodstock was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of … Sir John Russel and Sir Henry Berkeley came to the sessions here, with a large band of armed followers, to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1590s [...] West and others. Ref.110 BA1/1/39/25 … [illegible] [illegible] [...ance?], losse and anoyance, of soe manye of the sayd parishe as [ha...?] [illegible] [illegible] …