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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… provision; one a monastery of clerics, the other of women. From the beginning of their foundation each of them …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and children. Some escaped, at least nine married local women, and several more were buried in the churchyard. 13 … for silk. 46 Silk throwing was said to have employed many women and children 47 and a silk throwster, a silk winder, … weavers to steal yarn for them. 52 During the 1770s poor women were taught to weave at parish expense and in 1776 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the poor; and there are almshouses for six men and women, erected by James Butler, Esq. The parish contains … yielding a rental of 128. An hospital for eight men and women was endowed by Thomas Brotherton in 1510, and Richard … has been augmented to twelve. An almshouse for twelve women, founded by a bequest from Henry Franklyn, in 1575, and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… on large corbels carved as semi-figures of men and women in 13th-century dress, that at the north-west being …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… paid twenty-four pensions at 8 s. a week for single men or women, eighteen pensions at 26 a year for eighteen married … married couples, and four pensions of 26 for single men or women to the latter class. 3. St. Mary Magdalen Hospital. The … and the residue of his estate for poor aged men and women. The fund consists of 1,241 2 s. consols. By scheme of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… extended premises in the Sustern Spital, a hospital for women, a dependency of the monastery on the west, and the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… so wise and free, the citizens so civil and faithful, the women so fair and pure' . . . . . 212 Only once was there a …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… involved the expulsion from the castle of a number of poor women and children, who in their destitute state were …
A History of the County of Stafford
… for the poor Charities for the poor Almshouses for five women built in Hawfield Lane in 1887 were endowed by William … (d. 1922) left money for the erection of almshouses for women, and by 1925 two houses had been built in Wheatley … £100 for a distribution in the form of tickets to ten poor women in Winshill on New Year's day. The charity still …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was let at 13 15 s. and provided for 8 men's coats and 2 women's gowns. Persons who had received parish relief during … Field. In 1837 this was let for 4 to provide gowns for women. Daniel Swaine at an unknown date gave a rentcharge on …