The History of the County of Gloucester (Volume 2)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803 Excerpt: ...than half the property here is annexed to the manor. An estate, late Weston's, is vested in I. H. Hicks, M. D. by marriage with the heiress of that family. 7. Stone, was originally a hamlet, but is now in many respects a distinct parish (265). These tythings and hamlets have all distinct officers, and maintain their respective poor. At Purton the present Earl has made a large decoypool, the only one in this county39 Iron ore abounds within the limits of this parish; and it appears from the quantity of cinders to be found, particularly about Pecldington, that blomaries were formerly worked here. An old religious house existed here long before the conquest, which might have been the family atBerclea mentioned in the acts of a synod at Clovesho, A. D. 824. But it is more doubtful, whether it consisted of monks or nuns, who were suppressed by the villainy of Earl Godwin, in the time of Edward the Confessor, as related by Camden. The hospital of St. James and John is also mentioned, cart 12, Hen. III. m. 4, wherein is a confirmation of several parcels of land with which it was endowed. A priory or hospital was also founded in Longbridge, in the ty thing of Ham, bv Maurice Lord Berkeley in Hen. II. and dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The estate with which it was endowed is now a parcel of the impropriation. One hundred and eleven freeholders voted in 1776. Population, 2500--1854--3090. Houses inhab. 498. The benefice is a vicarage in Dursley deanery, of which the Earl of Berkeley is patron, and Caleb Carrington, elk. is incumbent. The patronage of the church was granted by Hen. VIII. to the chapter of Bristol, and was alienated by them, under the powers of an act of Parliament, to George, first Earl of Berkeley, in exchange for the rectory of St. Micha...