Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and ChesterChetham Society., 1901 - Cheshire (England) |
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Page 162 - When I first interfered in August 1817, it was the practice to admit families into the workhouse; at the time my interference ceased the number of inmates was reduced to eight, viz. six aged persons and two young women—one of the latter half idiotic, and the other labouring under severe disease.
Page 18 - Clench thereto belonging, are held of the King in free and common socage as of his manor of East Greenwich, by fealty only, and are worth yearly, beyond reprises, izf.
Page 18 - ... the manor of Haselbury is held of Charles Prince of Wales [the Inq. is taken temp. James I] as of the Honour of Wallingford, by the service of 3*. \d. rent, but by what other service...
Page 160 - ... a district partly manufacturing, but principally agricultural, and containing about 2,000 acres of land and as many inhabitants. I began by procuring the adoption of somewhat the same plan as Mr. Sturges Bourne's Select Vestry, not then legalized — a suggestion of the neighbouring magistrate, whom I consulted in the first instance, and whose co-operation, as well as that of the most respectable inhabitants, I uniformly met with, during a residence at intervals of three years and a half. I soon...
Page 21 - Edward the 3rd, 1 366. Godfrey died on Thursday next after the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord, in the 50th year of the reign of the same King ; and Avena died on Saturday next after the Feast of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary, in the 6th year of the reign of Richard 2nd, 1383. NB The Dates are taken from the Escheat Rolls, which contain the Inquisitum post mortem, 50th Edward 3. No. 24. In...
Page 21 - ... et enprisonerent) the said John's servants. The king's answer: " Eyt en Chauncellerie oyer et terminer pur le horibilite du trespas, devant covenables justices." — Rolls of Parl. ii. 33. AD 1333, 29 April. Deed Poll, dated Thursday next before the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, 7 Edward...
Page 19 - At these Courts the free tenants, whether holding by military service, thanage, or other tenure, owed suit, ie, it was required of them, as one of the conditions of their tenure, that they should attend the Court of the lordship of which they held their lands, to perform the duties of Doomsmen or Judges, as they were variously styled. They were, in fact, jurymen, wh0, being sworn, heard evidence and gave judgments, dooms, or awards.
Page 165 - Deaths from the middle of 1853, at which period the Act for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages came into operation. During the 21^ years from that period to the end of the year under review over 15,000* deaths occurred from phthisis, which is a larger number than was occasioned by any other disease. A few more deaths resulted from accidents than from phthisis, and a few more from atrophy and debility...