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A History of the County of Somerset
… cash in lieu of works from customary tenants were worth 20 s. in 1249, 34 s. from 8 customary tenants in 1282, and 19 s. … the arable demesne field of Eastover, was pasture 23 and St. John's hospital's adjoining Hundred Acres was divided … the arches on the north side of the high cross. 71 Market day was Saturday under the borough charter of 1468, but by …
A History of the County of Somerset
… seven of his poor pupils to receive daily pittances at St. John's hospital, where a further 13 schoolchildren lived on the … schools. 3 Elementary schools founded 1824-70. By 1835 the day schools of the town, including the grammar school, taught …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the borough and from Haygrove; in 1256-7 the income was 32 s. 11 d. from the borough and 13 s. 2 d. from Haygrove. 89 In … in 1378 94 and continued into the 18th century. During St. Matthew's fair seven men were accused in 1735 of failing … 1686, 2158-9, 2178. S.D.N.Q. xvi. 14; inf. from Mr. J. F. Lawrence,Wembdon. Squibbs, Bridgwater, 91, 129, 139. P.O. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 1107 by his son Robert, who rebelled in 1136, and Robert's daughter Gillian carried his lands to successive husbands … then described as being 'by the house of the hospital of St. John the Baptist', and was said to be held of the lord of … including some possessions of the dissolved hospital of St. John in Bridgwater, in 1553 to Thomas Sydney and Nicholas …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 1710-19. 17 Humphrey and Robert Blake and the town's recorder, Sir Thomas Wroth, were members of the classis in … 1687, and claimed c. 50 members. 33 They built a chapel in St. Mary Street in 1692, 34 and they claimed 200 members in … 1, 2. Rep. Som. Cong. Union (1896); inf. from Mr. J. F. Lawrence, based on ch. rec. Lond. Gaz. 7 Apr. 1865, p. 1942; …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1767, one man a toll keeper, one woman keeping a cook's shop. 2 There was one reputed papist c. 1776. 3 Mass was … of J. Moore Capes, founder and first minister of St. John's church, a Catholic chapel, dedicated to St. Joseph, was opened in 1846 in Gordon Terrace. 4 Capes and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Bridport 14 BRIDPORT (C.d.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXXVIII, N.W. (b)XXXVIII, S.W.) Bridport is a … principal monuments. Ecclesiastical b(1) Parish Church of St. Mary stands on the W. side of South Street. The walls are … a stone roof on corbelling. Bridport, the Parish Church of St. Mary The South Aisle (10 ft. wide) has in the E. bay an …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bridport - Brighton, New Bridport (St. Mary) BRIDPORT ( St. Mary), a sea-port, borough, … of Dorset, 14 miles (W.) from Dorchester, and 134 (W. S. W.) from London, on the high road to Exeter; containing … was added in 1839, towards the erection of which Lawrence Peel, Esq., contributed 500; the balance of a fund …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Bridstow 11 BRIDSTOW (E.d.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XLVI, S.E., (b)LI, N.E., (c)LI, N.W.) Bridstow is a parish and … and Wilton Bridge. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Bridget stands in the middle of the parish. With the …
Three fifteenth-century chronicles
… ac etiam Dominus Thomas Langton Episcopus de Batho [S[anct]i David], 10 cancellarius Cantebrigie et episcopus … visa erat in occidente quasi per quindenam ante festum S[anct]i Johannis Baptiste et post, que extendebat radium … be al e contre, that on Wednesday, id est, on Seynt Markes day, 26 a feld was takyn be twyn my lord Mountynghew on Kyng …