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A History of the County of Worcester
… Breedon (xiii cent.); Breuton (xiv cent.). The parish of Bredon lies on the southern margin of the county of … that by making the church of Bredon prebendal to the college of Westbury the bishop had deprived them of their … to the payment of an annuity of 4 to Brasenose College, Oxfordis applied for the benefit of eight poor …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… lies the next parish eastward from Pembury. The village of it is, almost all of it, within this hundred, though the … them, to cardinal Wolsey, for the better endowment of his college, commonly called Cardinal's college, in Oxford. 6 But that great prelate being cast in a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the next parish north-eastward from Brookland, almost all of it on the other or eastern side of the Rhee-wall, in the … York, with licence to settle the same on his new-founded college of Wye, to hold in free, pure and perpetual alms, in … which situation it remained till the suppression of that college, anno 36 Henry VIII. when it was surrendered, with …
A History of the County of Essex
… BRENTWOOD The 'hamlet', later parish and urban district, of Brentwood extended eastwards from Honeypot Lane to Ongar … in the 1950s and a special school in 1970. Brentwood college of education (1961) became part of the Chelmer … school was then granted Aided status also. 431 Brentwood British school was associated with the Congregational church. …
Magna Britannia
… - Butterleigh Bridestowe BRIDESTOWE, in the hundred of Lifton and in the deanery of Tavistock, lies about six … discharging all the duties of a gallant officer. The British cavalry owed to him a system of discipline that made … is impropriator of the great tithes which belong to the college of Slapton in this county, and patron of the benefice …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… which may have been within Nottingham, on the South Side of Trent, where there is Ground enough within the Limits of it near the Bridge-End, for such a Purpose; and I rather … stile. A Resident, of the name of Easton, is now in good health at the advanced age of ninety. The Clerk informed me …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xiv cent.); Brixton (xvi cent.). Brighstone, one of the southern parishes of the Island, about 7 miles south-west from Newport, was … to the great Admiral Vernon'; (3) 'God preserve the British Arms, 1740'; (4) 'Prosperity to the parish of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Britwell, Bryghtwell (xvxviii cent.). The entire area of Brightwell is 2,064 acres. There are 1,306 acres of … by cottagers. 18 It is on an estate belonging to New College, Oxford. Slade End House is a substantial brick … In 1676 the Rev. Michael Woodward, D.D., Warden of New College, Oxford, by will proved in the P.C.C. 9 July charged …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xvi cent.). Brington parish forms a long, narrow strip of land about 4 miles in length from north to south and … datum, to about 245 ft. in the north on the borders of Northamptonshire. Some parts of the high land here are … By 1755 the advowson had come into the possession of Clare College, Cambridge, 29 which still retains it. There are no …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Brinkley BRINKLEY The parish of Brinkley, which covers 1,303 a., lies 5 miles south-west … the open fields. 54 At inclosure in 1816 St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, was allotted 25 a. from the estate of the … of Aylesford, in exchange for land in Burrough Green. The college sold 8 a. in 1847 and the remainder in 1881 to the …