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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is with the Bishop of Ely. The Octagon Chapel in the Old Market, opened in 1831 as a chapel of ease to the parish …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… held 80 acres as 1 fee, with a messuage in the New Market belonging thereto, and also 240 acres at a money rent …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 40 s. for his charges laid out after a fire in the Old Market. 56 Another fire in the same quarter occurred in 1607. … 59 A new house was built near the oil mills in the Old Market in 1776, 60 but as late as 1781 the town relied at …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Oldham's chemist's shop, at the northwest corner of the Market Place next the New Inn, is a fine basement with a … (£20 5 s. 4 d.), repairs to the church (£4 5 s.), to the market cross (£4 3 s. 4 d.), and the paving of the Market Place (£17 2 s. 2 d.). Walker and Craddock, Hist. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… St. Peter, and was by 1585 divided into ten wards (Timber Market, Church, Castle, South, Barton, White Cross, Old Market, Ship Lane, New Market, Mill), of which Barton, White Cross, and Old Market …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… under whom the sale took place. A proposal to prolong Market Street (laid out by Medworth) on the other side of the Market Place, to form a new approach to Lynn Road, was not …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… numerous references to messuages, especially in the New Market, totally destroyed by the sea. In 1251 there were four … since the reign of Edgar. 75 There was a Saturday market, assize of bread and ale and a fair in connexion with … the office of Messrs. Fraser, Woodgate and Beall, 29 Old Market. E 134/45 Geo. III/M. 1. Gibbons, Ely Episc. Rec. 25. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Markets and fairs MARKETS AND FAIRS The market is held by prescription. In 1657 John Thurloe, as lord of the manor, was granted a fortnightly market at Wisbech by letters patent. 73 In the 1840's Wisbech … was one of the largest if not actually the largest corn market in the country. In 1844-5 250,000 quarters were sold, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… October at Ely. 9 The Shire Hall on the east side of the Market Place was pulled down in 1810; it was replaced by the … court for the borough was held in the room over the butter market until the demolition of that building (1854), 11 since … 1721; 49 in 1788 it cost £16 a year. 50 The paving of the market place was carried out as far back as 1549, 51 but was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at least. 15 In 1812 a 'noisy and riotous crowd' in the Market Place and the 'inevitable overthrow of all modesty and …