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Survey of London Monograph
… Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Ely 161926; studied limning and heraldry in London, perhaps …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 169; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Ely. There is a parsonage-house, and the glebe contains about …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of … the head of a union, in the hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 43 miles (N.) from Cambridge, and … the manor is said to have been given to the convent of Ely, by Oswi, and Leoflede, daughter of Brithnod the first …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… until about 1910, when the farm was sold to the Isle of Ely County Council for small holdings. The structure of the … referred to in c. 1133-51, when Bishop Niel of Ely granted a square mile ( milliarium) of marsh, first … to celebrate in both chapels. 21 In 1487 the Bishop of Ely directed his clergy to receive kindly the proctor of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders Confirmation (Ely, Holland, and Norfolk) Act, which came into force the … the main road from Wisbech to Outwell, Downham Market, and Ely (A 1101). The Low Road (B 1101) forms the village street … been: (i) Sir Richard Swale (1545 ?1608), Chancellor of Ely and a noted civil lawyer; he was appointed rector in 1588 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the method and date of its acquisition by the church of Ely is unknown. As at Wisbech, both bishop and prior obtained … de Longchamp held 400 acres for 2 marks of the Prior of Ely. 7 This is probably the origin of the manor of Graces … at the later 7 free tenants (counting the Prior of Ely's two holdings separately), 60 customary tenants, 5 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… out of the marsh, free from all claims of the Bishop of Ely and the inhabitants or others claiming under them. The … first ploughed in 1667 or 1668. By the award the Bishop of Ely became entitled to 50 acres of the newly inclosed … is not mentioned at all in the earliest (1221) of the Ely episcopal cartularies, 13 and only in a cursory manner in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … Downham Market (A 1122) following the canal; the Wisbech-Ely road (A 1101), which leaves this at Outwell church; a … were set aside for a recreation ground, the Bishop of Ely as lord of the manor was allotted 1 acre, 17 acres were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from the abbey are very scanty. The boundary with the Ely Cathedral priory property in Wisbech Murrow was adjusted in 1248. The Prior and Convent of Ely recognized 200 acres between the dike dividingThorney and … return quitclaimed 400 acres of marsh called 'Eldegore' to Ely. 31 A manor of Thorney is mentioned c. 1458, 32 and the …