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A History of the County of Somerset
… Bridgwater Churches CHURCHES. Between 1088 and c. 1107 Walter of Douai gave the church of Bridgwater … 35 The grant was confirmed by his son Robert of Bampton, and in 1156 by Pope Adrian IV. 36 Probably in the 1180s … was paid until the Dissolution. 39 From 1219 the master and brethren of the hospital undertook to serve the church …
A History of the County of Somerset
… lay within the ancient parish, Bridgwater, Bower, Hamp, and Horsey, together measured 8½ hides. Bridgwater manor, the … comprised 7 ploughlands. Three virgates were in demesne and the remainder was worked with 5 teams. Hamp was about half the size of Horsey and was shared equally between lord and tenants. Bower gelded …
A History of the County of Somerset
… A master of schools was mentioned in the town in 1379 85 and the hospital's impropriate rectories of Morwenstow (Cornw.) and Wembdon were charged together with the support of 13 boys … 88 The grant to the corporation, first of tithes in 1561 and later of the rectory, provided an endowment for what …
A History of the County of Somerset
… had been established by 1647, a Baptist meeting by 1653, and a Quaker meeting by 1670. 14 In 1669 there were … parts of Somerset, were John Gardner, a Presbyterian, and Tobias Wells (d. 1692), a Baptist. 15 Five meetings … two Baptist) were licensed in 1672, 16 three in 1689, and five, of unspecified denomination, 1710-19. 17 Humphrey …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of Allington, Bradpole, Bothenhampton, Burton Bradstock and Symondsbury. The church, the Unitarian Chapel, the Town Hall, the Chantry and Downe Hall are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … the W. side of South Street. The walls are of local rubble and ashlar with dressings of the same material; the roofs are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BRIDPORT ( St. Mary), a sea-port, borough, markettown, and parish, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, in the Bridport division of Dorset, … and there are a lying-in institution, Dorcas, and other societies for the benefit of the poor; for whose advantage, …
Brightwell Baldwin
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… of Brightwell Baldwin contains Brightwell Baldwin village and the outlying hamlet of Upperton. 1 A medieval settlement … resident lords who, with the rector, dominated its social and religious life, and it remains predominantly agricultural, with little modern …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… Brimpsfield village, the primary settlement of a manor and ecclesiastical parish which originally included Cranham to the west, was once the site of a castle and a priory. The parish, which also included part of Birdlip … 219 inhabitants in 1951 and 233 in 1971. 101 Two friendly societies formed at Birdlip in 1879 and c. 1886 respectively …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… corner of Leicestershire bordering upon Northamptonshire and Rutland, the ancient parish of Bringhurst, which is 3,612 … correspond to the main settlements of Bringhurst, Drayton, and Great Easton. The River Welland forms the southern boundary and its tributary, the Eye Brook, the eastern boundary of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… books at 13. 6. 8.; net income, 241; patrons, the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge: land and a money payment were assigned in 1811, in lieu of tithes. … received the grant of a market to be held on Monday, and a fair on the festival of St. Margaret. The parish …