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A History of the County of Somerset
… chaplain were mentioned. 73 In 1284 William Testard, lord of Wembdon manor, was licensed to alienate the advowson to … all offerings, casual fees, small tithes, and an allowance of grain from Bridgwater hospital. 91 By 1535 the grain … Halswell, vicar for just over a year from 1623, lived in Oxford, but the cure was said to have been well served. 9 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WENDEN-LOFTS ( St. Dunstan), a parish, in the union of Saffron-Walden, hundred of Uttlesford, N. division of Essex, 6 miles (W. by N.) from … in the union of Bicester, hundred of Ploughley, county of Oxford, 2 miles (S. W.) from Bicester; containing 214 …
A History of the County of Essex
… is a small marshland village in the London borough of Havering. It lies about 16 miles east of the city of London, within the Green Belt. 1 The ancient … of John Trussell, married John de Vere (d. 1540), earl of Oxford. 82 The manor descended in the de Vere family until …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… St. Peter and St. Paul), a markettown and parish, the head of a union, and formerly an incorporated borough, in the hundred of Stretford, county of Hereford, 12 miles (N. W.) from … 590. 10. payable to the Dean and Chapter of ChristChurch, Oxford, and 71. 6. 8. payable to the vicar of the parish. …
Old and New London
… Science, Art, and Labour have outpour'd Their myriad horns of plenty at our feet." Tennyson. Situation of BromptonIts Nurseries and Flower-gardensCromwell or Hale … living in 1858, when he stood his unsuccessful contest for Oxford city, and when he commenced the editorship of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… CHURCHES. Originally West Bromwich may have been part of Handsworth parish, but a church had been built by the 12th century and a parish established. The church of All Saints remained the only church in the parish until … Crown to Cardinal Wolsey and by him to Cardinal College, Oxford. 17 Wolsey, however, seems to have retained some …
A History of the County of Stafford
… During the Middle Ages the farming pattern was a mixture of open-field husbandry and farming in severalty. Three cases brought against the lords of the manor in 1293 suggest that by that date the demesne … quantities' of coal and sending much of it to Birmingham, Oxford, and elsewhere. 49 By then work had started in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Bromwich Manors MANORS. In 1086 William fitz Ansculf, lord of Dudley, held three hides in BROMWICH; before the Conquest … with the Dudley barony until the death without issue of John, Lord Somery, in 1322. 31 The barony was divided … its property was granted to Cardinal Wolsey's college at Oxford; in 1530 on Wolsey's fall the property reverted to the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… West Bromwich The growth of the town THE GROWTH OF THE TOWN. The chief settlement in the parish until the … O.S. Map 6", Staffs. LXVIII. SW. (edns. of 1890 and 1904). Oxford Rd. was described as a proposed new road in 1900: …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… West Drayton Introduction WEST DRAYTON The ancient parish of West Drayton lies almost at the western extremity of Middlesex. 1 It has the shape of an irregular rectangle, … routes: the London-Bath road to the south, and the London-Oxford road to the north. As a result the pattern of …