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A History of the County of Sussex
… demesne lands in Yapton in 1316. 9 There is no evidence for a park in the parish before c. 1813, when parkland … a venue in 1995. A Yapton and district cottage gardeners' society, founded c. 1905, still flourished in 1991. 85 From … was no longer important since 'every day . . . is a Christian's Sabbath'. 96 A Puritan conventicle was recorded …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a shop and later a dairy were attached and a room opened for a men's club. 97 The Stag's Head remained in business in … normally resident in 1991. 4 Thirteen people were fined for their involvement in the 1497 rebellion. 5 King John … was visited by the Congregationalist Somerset Evangelist Society. 9 EDUCATION In 1818 there was a Sunday school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to … received £8 a year, and the remaining £7 was to be used for educational purposes. Fletcher further provided that if … Vaughan Thomas and the churchwardens drew up a schedule for the better management of the distributions. The new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been … of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel … 1875. 58 The school was incorporated with the National Society in 1831. 59 It was attended in 1833 by 59 children on …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at … whole of the remainder moorland, affording rough pasturage for sheep and a few cattle. The surface is hilly and … by the encouragement held out by the Selkirkshire Pastoral Society, established under the patronage of the late Lord …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk … 41 who in 1928 transferred it to the Church Pastoral Aid Society. 42 In 1994 the society was a member of the patronage board for Oldbury …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… subscription, aided by grants of 300 from the Incorporated Society, a like sum from the Commissioners for Building Churches, and 400 from the Ripon Diocesan Society; it is in the early English style, with a square …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Culm is found in some parts of it, but it is worked only for home consumption and the supply of the immediate … of the Baron de Rutzen: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of 70, and the glebe comprises 50 acres. … and the other conducted on the British and Foreign School Society's system. Of five Sunday schools, one is in connexion …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… but without inscription. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. The moated site of an old baronial castle is … dedicated to St. Peter; and his example in embracing the Christian faith was followed by vast numbers of his subjects, … all of which are well supported. The Philosophical Society was instituted in 1822, and in 1826 obtained from the …
Survey of London Monograph
… John Water alias Yorke, herald, as fee of his office and for services to Richard III, his predecessors and ancestors, … which he is styled York', but doubtful if he was a herald for although mentioned several times in Wrythe's will he is … 'Will'm Wrythesley alias dictus Rouge cross' in accounts for Henry VII's funeral (I. 11, 88 b); York before 26 August …