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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of … library, in which are many valuable works of the old divines. In the town are a reading-room, and a neat theatre: …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … originally the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably modified. In the first place, the fen portion of the ancient parish, containing Parson Drove (q.v.), has …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech St. Mary WISBECH ST. MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger parishes of the Isle, covers an area of some 10,000 acres 1 on the left (north-west) bank of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… first built by William the Conqueror after the submission of Hereward. 27 It may have been granted to the see of Ely at its formation, but the original headquarters of the … ten days later Beaupre warned the Council of a proposed assembly of 5,000 persons on Tilney Smeeth (Norf.), who …
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 … of whom Bishop Watson of Lincoln and Abbot Feckenham of Westminster were the bestknown, had arrived. 50 In 1584 it …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham … in right of Joan, personally appearing in Chancery at Westminster in eight days of Holy Trinity in the fortyeighth … in Witherslake and so seised he by letters patent dated at Westminster 25 February, 4 Henry VII (1488-9) granted 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 … masters, among them Francis Gregory (166471), formerly of Westminster and Woodstock schools, and Edward Hinton …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at Westminster in 12923 and at Exeter and Winchester a little …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … council. 64 Parish Government The Vestry to c. 1830 An assembly of lay parishioners, including representatives from … to elect churchwardens and to audit their accounts, the assembly being officially called a vestry by the mid 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The estate was … estate given by Abingdon abbey to Brihthelm, bishop of Wells. 1 The Crown recovered the Witney estate before … Edward the Confessor gave it to Aelfwine (d. 1047), bishop of Winchester, 2 and except for two brief periods during the …