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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix … the parish in 1862. Since 1906 it has been part of a main London-Exeter line. A passenger halt was opened at the south …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it … W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from London; containing 25,401 inhabitants. This place, which is …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Worcester cathedral chapter was established by charter of Henry VIII on 24 Jan. 1542, after the dissolution of its monastic body. As in each of the other cathedrals in … prebends can normally be found in the patent rolls and the London Gazette. The virtually complete series of bishops' …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve … her, was about a moneth sithence forceiblie turned out of an out howse of Thomas Sales in Odingley wherein she had … Whereas your poore peticioner, beinge an apprentice in London and sonne of John Hawes of the parish of Grimley, was …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… BA1/1/22/60 (1615) To the Kinges majesties justices of the peace of the countie of Worcester. The humble petition of Thomas … leadinge from the most places of Walles to the cytie of London, the chardge for the reedifieinge thereof wilbe soe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1619 The poor prisoners of the castle of Worcester. Ref.110 BA1/1/26/43 (1619) To the right … as speciall bayle for Thomas Canninge of the city of London carpenter, to arrest on Thomas Stife of Westwood in …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1620s Thomas Pirkes and eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To the right worshipfull Sir [illegible] knight lord of the manour of [Fladbury?] [illegible] Whereas the berer … your petitinor placed twoe of his wifes children in London to trades men to your petitinors great cost and …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Noble Sir, Though I am unknowne unto you, yett the report of your courtious behaviour towards all gentlemen in … West Indies; where I thought I had shott the very gulfe of affliction, butt coming lately from thence (in a shipp bound for London) was by a tempest at sea droven into Wales, amongst a …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1670s Inhabitants of Bretforton. Ref.110 BA1/1/115/27 (1671) Wigorn [com?] To the right worshippfull his majesties justices of the peace for the said county in quarter sessions … widdow for Hanley Hall Mistress Hasgill widdow of London Edward Watton John Matty Elizabeth Keent Hannah Webley …