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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Witcham (St. Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county … The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, … style: there are some remains of the old Hall, built by John Norris, founder of the Norrisian professorship of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Witchampton 24 WITCHAMPTON (9806) (O.S. 6 ins., ST 90 NE) The parish, irregular in shape and covering some 2,100 acres, … Chalk, between 100 ft. and 225 ft. above sea-level. Land at East Hemsworth (18) was formerly part of Shapwick. … Monuments: Reset in N. transept, on E. wall, (1) of John Cole, 1636, round-headed inscription tablet in painted …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Witham 106. WITHAM. (G.b.) Witham. The Parish Church of St Nicholas. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxiv. S.E. … are two doorways, the lower one is modern, the upper one at the level of the loft is of the 15th century and has … achievement of arms. In N. chapelagainst N. wall, (3) of John Southcotte, justice of the Queen's Bench, 1585, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Witherslack 112 WITHERSLACK (C.g.) Witherslack, the Parish Church of St. Paul (O.S. 6 in. (a)XLI, N.E., … The church was founded as a chapel of Beetham in 1664 by John Barwick, Dean of St. Paul's, and actually built about two years later. The earlier chapel at Witherslack Hall is said to have been demolished in 1850. …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Meathop and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of … in 1762 were: 2 messuages called "Chamleys," owner John Barrow, rent 12s. 11d.; 1 messuage called "Chamley's," …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Withiel (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and … are common or waste. It anciently belonged to the priory at Bodmin, of which establishment was Prior Vyvyan, who … among the monuments is a handsome one to the memory of Sir John How, his wife, and nine children, in a small cross aisle …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… N.W.) Withington is a parish 4 m. N.E. of Hereford. The church and Thing Hill Grange, which retains much of its … the roof; posts have now been added under the ends of the end-beams and the woodwork otherwise restored. It dates … ConditionGood. Secular b(2). White Stone (Plate 78), at the N.W. corner of the cross-roads, 800 yards S. of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green … a row of six cottages, each was usually let to non-paupers at commercial rents and the income used for charitable … charitable bequests to their native town. The clothier John Holloway (d. 1724), founder of a school for sons of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Economic history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, encompassing the three … bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 the manor was valued at just under 94 gross, compared with only 9 6 s. 10 d. … malt worth 1 5 s., and in 1719 the wealthy blanket-maker John Wiggins had a ground of barley worth 18. 6 Butchers and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rendering 32 s. 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century … manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at what may both have been early … Woodford Mills throughout the 16th century. 20 In 1590 John and Richard Bishop fined for the fulling mill on the …