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A History of the County of Essex
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. One Quaker and a few Anabaptists were recorded in 1664. 69 John Argor … Wivenhoe, which prob- ably met in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for Presbyterian meet- ings in … a division apparently occurred between the Pres- byterians and the Paedobaptists (perhaps Independents) in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … wages of the abbey's servants who included 7 ploughmen, 4 carters (3 at Godstow and 1 at Walton), 2 reapers, 2 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day schools taught only 46 children. 77 … 1817, however, a National school, held in the glebe house and supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton College, was attended by 101 children, and in 1823 the master was sent to London for training. 78 By …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Social and cultural activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the antiquities that have been found are, foundations and ruins of buildings, fragments of statues, stags' horns, … of the Lower Empire, a coin of Adrian, one of Lucilla, and a noble tessellated pavement, of which an engraving was … forming part of a range of hills which inclose a beautiful and fertile vale. Spring Park, in the parish, is a splendid …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was … of the cloth industry encouraged ancillary trades, and 3 carriers recorded in 1608 may have been employed in …
A History of the County of Essex
… the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while restricting the amount of arable … was densely wooded. 1 Monkhams was originally all wood, and there also pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had … 2 saddlers, 3 wheelwrights, 2 omnibus proprietors, and 2 carriers. 42 During the past forty years a small amount of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the N. … 16th century (NRO, W(A) XVI. 5). The sheltered position and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in … based on the rapid transport of early radishes by local carriers. By the 16th century there were mills at both E. and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals … by will in 1716 to Adam Bellinger. 53 The Bellingers, carriers and corn factors, held it until the late 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … Market Street of c. 1800, built by the Bellinger family of carriers and corn factors with large associated outbuildings …