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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to it. The vicar was to receive the tithes except those of flax and wool. Land and other tithes were assigned to him for conducting the services at the chapel of Kilhus in Wisbech St. Mary (q.v.). 58 In 1275 Bishop Balsham appropriated the church of Wisbech to the prior and convent of Ely, with the rectory …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Guild of the holy trinity GUILD OF THE HOLY TRINITY The Guild of … was £5 6 s. 8 d. 12 In 1514 it was ordained that five masses were to be said for each departed brother or sister. … Three years later the guild employed at least three priests whose respective duties were set out in detail. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was the oldest, the remainder, with the possible exception of the Guild of Holy Trinity, having been founded during the reign of Richard II. Some of them were quite small. The Guild of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Recusants in the castle RECUSANTS IN THE CASTLE The idea of concentrating Roman Catholic prisoners from various jails … dates from 1572, when the Privy Council asked the Bishop of Ely (Cox) to report on the suitability of Wisbech Castle … to receive Papists 49 and by October the first eight priests, of whom Bishop Watson of Lincoln and Abbot Feckenham …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… A COMMERCIAL CENTRE Wisbech is now the commercial centre of the southern marshland, and the title 'Capital of the Fens', sometimes given to the town, is not without … This situation has long prevailed. No record of the grant of a market has been found, and this, taken …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … 1882 and 1891. A further 315 a. on the north-west side of the parish including Brown-hill farm were 'transferred …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Wistow WISTOW Wistow lies seven miles south-east of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the former civil parish of Newton Harcourt which is a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the rectory house, comprising three separate tenements in … the income to go to Witney church for four annual masses, with 5 s. distributed in bread and 16 d. to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 … arithmetic, and natural science, together with drawing, singing, and bookkeeping. Numbers in the 1880s and 1890s …