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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Borough of Wisbech Azure represntations of St. Peter and St. Paul or standing within a double canopy or. (Granted … The burgesses were given the right of perpetual succession and the use of a common seal. 47 They were to hold the guild … four wards. 85 Cal. Pat. 1548-9, 339-40. The full text is printed in Watson, Hist. Wisb. (1827), 174-87. Rather more …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Guilds and chantries GUILDS AND CHANTRIES In 1389 there were six guilds in Wisbech. St. … in 1462, by which date guilds of St. George, St. Lawrence, and Holy Cross had also been founded. In this year the Holy …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… remained a quarter-sessions town ever since; the January and July sessions for the Isle are held here, those in April and October at Ely. 9 The Shire Hall on the east side of the … was started in 1800, but the first newspaper actually printed in Wisbech was the Wisbech Observer (1813). It had a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… consideracion of all such as shalbe nedefull to attend and guard them'. 47 Eight years later the deprived … Papists were ordered to be sent to castles such as Wisbech and Banbury; the laymen were to be placed under guard in … the bishop was enjoined to put Wisbech Castle 'in order and strength' to receive Papists 49 and by October the first …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a century later. A school for boys was opened in 1707 and one for girls in 1710; both schools were supported by … 70 In 1709 there were 50 boys at school, who had 'caps and bands &c. given them, to distinguish them from other … Mus.)). Report made by Nat. Soc. in 1846-7 (privately printed) (Archives of Nat. Soc.). Archives of Nat. Soc. M. of …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the north and … Leics. iii. 170. Ibid. 173. Assoc. Archit. Soc. Rep. & Papers, xxii. 359. V.C.H. Leics. iii. 202. At Wistow Hall. E …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, the Chapter of Ely. There is a place of … ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Wimborne and Cranborne, hundred of Cranborne, Wimborne division of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: the tithes have been commuted for 320, and the glebe comprises 60 acres. The church, which contains …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Withington is a parish 4 m. N.E. of Hereford. The church and Thing Hill Grange, which retains much of its 14th-century … local sandstone rubble with dressings of the same material and the roofs are covered with slates. The Chancel and Nave were built probably late in the 12th century, but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the … the Freeland estate, below. 10 th Rep. Com. Char. (Parl. Papers 1824 (103), xiii), pp. 365; PRO, C 93/5/6; ORO, Witney …