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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.E.) Great Waltham is a large parish with a village and four hamlets, 4 m. N. of Chelmsford. The principal … of mediaeval houses. Ecclesiastical d(1). Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Laurence stands in the village. The walls … Monuments: In N. aisle against N. wall (1) of Sir Anthony Everard, 1614, and Anne (Barnardiston), 1609, his …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… in. (a)lxvii. S.W. (b)lxxv. N.E.) Great Warley is a parish and village 2 m. S.S.W. of Brentwood. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Mary has recently been pulled down with the exception of … (1) On W. wall, of Gyles Fleming, 1623, and Gyles Fleming, his son, 1633, with Susanna, his wife, alabaster …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Brentwood, with some light industry; along Warley Road and Great Warley Street a sequence of large houses, several … the Waylett (Walletts, or cross-roads) on its way south to St. Mary's Lane. Dark Lane probably took its name from the … and occupied by Thomas Adams. 75 It was held c. 17814 by Anthony Merry before passing in 1784 or 1785 to Samuel Bonham …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… m. S. of Colchester. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Stephen stands towards the N. end of the parish. The walls are of mixed rubble and septaria with dressings of limestone; the roofs are tiled. The Nave and chancel were built late in the 14th century. Late in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is partly bounded to the south-west by the Fleam Dyke, 91 and further north separated from Fulbourn and Little Wilbraham by two brooks meeting at its north-west … always been by road. The road through Newmarket to Bury St. Edmunds (Suff.), a turnpike between 1724 and 1871, ran …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… £10 by 1837, received every 6-7 years, was in the 18th and 19th centuries used as directed. 30 About 1860 payments … £20, worth £1 yearly, for the poor to be distributed on St. Thomas's day. In the 18th century it was distributed by … grocer, by will proved 1885 left £1,000 for the poor of his native parish of Great Wilbraham. In the early 20th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to the Richmond fee: by 1155 that church owed to Mont St. Michel abbey in Normandy (Manche) a £2 pension, 91 still … 13th century. 92 About 1160 Robert the chamberlain gave, and his lord Count Conan of Brittany confirmed, to Ely priory's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… peasantry, who included 13 villani, 5 on the king's land, and 12 bordars. The whole vill was worth c. £36. The king's … of almost £24, including over £13 in place of corn, malt, and honey formerly rendered. 88 From the 1160s to the early 1200s the king regularly tallaged his manor. 89 In 1279 90 almost half the arable, which …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Education EDUCATION. Schoolmasters were reported in 1610 and 1665. 13 In 1686 a dissenter was keeping a school. 14 In 1818 two day schools taught 44 children, 15 and there were three dame schools with c. 70 pupils in 1833. … 20 The vicar taught there in the 1880s and 1890s. 21 At his death in 1889 Hicks left the interest on £200 to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Great Wilbraham Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In the late 10th century the then Aelfhelm Poga gave his wife on their marriage and in his will, 7 hides in … Watson, D.D. 55 A suspected Jacobite, Watson, bishop of St. Davids from 1688 until deprived in 1708 for simony, …