Search
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 … in 1622 and thereafter controlled the seat until the Civil War. William Lenthall, 6 who succeeded Whitelocke as recorder …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was a registered meeting, probably Baptist, at the house of Samuel Wise, an Old Woodstock farmer, but in 1738 the … soldiers, broke up the meeting and stoned Hinton out of town as a Jacobin. Hinton tried again in 1819 and was … from 1914 until c. 1928, and after the Second World War services were maintained chiefly by student pastors from …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both sides of the … by Humphrey Weld in 1641 and burnt down in the Civil War in c. 1644 (Hutchins I, 349). In 1785 the account book of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in WOOLASTON within Twyford hundred. 6 Unlike other estates of the great thegn the manor of Woolaston probably never … he was an active supporter of the king during the Civil War, and on the defeat of the royalist cause part of his …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … only in the centre of the village until the First World War. 1 TRADE AND INDUSTRY Building stone was dug in the east …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; containing 71 … a regiment of horse under Charles I. in the parliamentary war. In the hamlet of Godstow was a Benedictine abbey.See …
The Environs of London
… relating to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the … belonging to the Navy; the guns of most of our men of war being laid up there in time of peace: there are also …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … Worcester, which was so frequently the victim of intestine war and of accidental calamity, was fortified by Hugh de … obtained possession of the city. The inhabitants were made prisoners, and compelled by torture to discover their …