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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. … whose hands are hereto subscribed being the churchwardens and overseers of the poore and other inhabitants of the parish of Saint Clement lyeing …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… majesty intituled an Act for Reliefe of Insolvent Debtors and for the More Easie Discharge of Bankrupts out of Execucion after their Certificates Allowed and by virtue of an order thereupon made by the justices of … therefore conceives he is justly entituled to receive the benefit provided in an act passed the last session, entituled …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Sheweth That your peticioner is a protestant dissenter and that a licence was granted by this court at Easter sessions 1739 allowing and appointing your peticioner's dwelling house in the town … humbly apprehend's he is intituled to receive the benefit of an act of Parliament made in the sixteenth year of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… the above prison being continually very full of prisoners and many of them for very capitol crimes your petitioner is … having no assistant allowed to assist him in his charge and the present salary so inadequate to the trust that your … worships will condescend to take it into consideration and that you will please to grant him such an augmentation to …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… see the conquerour made it) had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of Harold, held Worlingham at the time of the Survey, and Roger Bigot was steward of it for the Conqueror, who … establishing an English and Grammar School there, for the benefit of poor children belonging to that town. The above … 1742, while holding the See of Norwich, he instituted two societies in Norfolk and Suffolk for the relief and support …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable arable farming was recorded from the Middle Ages. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of demesne ploughs increased from 3 to 4, … the parish. Worming- ford failed to derive the economic benefit that a railway in the parish would have brought. By …
A History of the County of Essex
… c. 1825. 11 By 1833 it had accommodation for c. 146 and was supported by voluntary contributions and pence, from which the children were given clothing. An … grants from 1880 when the average attendance was 52, and was enlarged for 127 in 1896. 14 A gallery which had been …
A History of the County of Essex
… bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 miles south-east of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a. … recorded as an inn in 1750, was the meeting place of a friendly society between 1794 and 1849. 87 The one and a half … working men paid subscriptions to the Stoke and Melford Benefit Club to receive a pension at the age of 65. In the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the tythings of Burgham, Perry-Hill, West-End, and Wyke, 1424 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6795 a. 3 r. 34 p., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes through it. The living is a …