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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… poor In the 1780s the parish received rent charges of 8 s. given by Edward Crofts by will proved 1628, 6612 s. given by 1741 and lost c. 1810, and £2 from John Martin … of bread be given every Sunday to those poor who came to church: £2 12 s. a year was distributed until the 1830s. Most …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Graveley Church CHURCH The patronage of Graveley church belonged to … as one benefice, to which were successively added Papworth St. Agnes in 1949 and Toseland (Hunts.) in 1978. The college … may have received only 2 a. of oats for all Ramsey abbey's demesne tithes. 47By 1190, as in 1279, the rector held in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… had fallen by a quarter since 1066 to £6, Ramsey abbey's demesne had 4 serviand two ploughteams, while the 8 … 1291 on whether the villeins had to fetch millstones from St. Ives at their own expense 4and in 1300 on threshing wheat … m. 1. Jesus Coll. Mun., 2, ct. roll 4 & 6 Phil. & Mary; cf. ibid. 2 Jas. 1. Ibid. 2, 31, 44 Eliz. 1; 2, 3 Jas. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Although Trotter provided for increasing both the master's salary and the number of free pupils, 51no adjustment was … had put the school, with only nine pupils, under his wife's management. The curate had then recently started a Sunday … on an adjoining plot of the charity land. 59It remained a church school: the rector taught there regularly until c. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1,582 a. (640 ha.). 90The eastern boundary with Papworth St. Agnes follows in the south a brook flowing northward from … southeast with boulder clay, once heavily wooded. Graveley's name indicates its origin as a woodland clearing. 95In 1086 … and widens at the middle into a third green, from which Church Lane, mentioned in 1439, 23leads north to the church. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of frankpledge, which required the presence of the king's hundred bailiff, 5was usually held early in winter until c. … c. 1500 upon visiting bakers from Godmanchester and St. Ives (Hunts.). 14Weights and measures for that purpose … 39476. e.g. Jesus Coll. Mun., 2, ct. roll 4 & 6 Phil. & Mary. First noted, B.L. Add. Roll 34817 (1398). e.g. P.R.O., …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the mid 12th century rendering to the cellarer a full week's food farm, 52mostly commuted for cash by the 1240s. 53The … estate of 70 a., enlarged to 116 a. by 1730, 66when Edward's son Thomas sold the heavily mortgaged land and lease to Dr. … probably stood within the 14-a. Home close 77east of the church, later occupied by the college's farmhouse, which had …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… NONCONFORMITY In the 1650s two men were not going to church. 32In 1669 three or four people frequented … 70 sittings, half free, in 1851, when the minister from St. Neots claimed an average attendance of 40. 40In 1857 … were still 17 members. The chapel was sold after Crow's widow died in 1906, although Primitive Methodist camp …
A Dictionary of London
… by Adelaide Place (q.v.). Named after the owner. Gray's Inn On the north side of Holborn, outside the City … with the old prebendal manor of Portpool, belonging to St. Paul's, and possessed in consequence of certain … as early as the 1 Ed. II., held under the D. and C. of St. Paul's, and continued in the family until 21 H. VII. (Ch. …