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A chief bailiff was appointed for life by the bishop, and performed the functions of high sheriff within the liberty, who also headed the government of the city of Ely. In July 1643 Oliver Cromwell was made governor of the isle.
- Administrative county, (within Cambridgeshire)
The ancient city of Ely occupies the largest island in the Cambridgeshire Fens. The “Isle of Ely” is so called because it was only accessible by boat until the waterlogged Fens were drained in the 17th century. Still susceptible to flooding today, it was these watery surrounds that gave Ely its original name the ‘Isle of Eels’, a ...
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Whilst near-by Cambridge was the headquarters of the Eastern Association, (fn. 1) Ely was the home-town of Cromwell himself, who was in residence here (fn. 2) between 1636 and 1640: on Palace Green the New Model Army took shape. (fn. 3) Ely, however, was also the episcopal seat of 'The Laud of East Anglia', Bishop Wren, and was thus a centre of ...
City of Ely 'Elge', meaning eel-district, appears to be the correct origin of the name, though willow-place and eel-island are explanations almost equally apt. An outlier of Lower Greensand, partially capped by boulder-clay and gravel, formed the island on the eastern edge of which the city of Ely developed, rising from the 'waste of waters opening wide' which, in early times, occupied the ...
Dec 7, 2006 · As a direct result of this incident Cromwell was made governor of the Isle by the House of Lords in July. He arrived back in Ely with his troops and established a permanent garrison in the city. Churches across the Isle would now come under the scrutiny of Cromwell - and Ely Cathedral would not escape his rigours. Lifestyle.
Equally important is the fact that the liberty of Ely is 'thought to have been very ancient'. (fn. 5) Coke traced back the bishop's peculiar powers in the Isle only to the time of Henry I; (fn. 6) but at the end of the 18th century the Rev. Mr. Warren could state with some certainty that the original of these powers lay in St. Etheldreda's ...
The Isle of Ely County Council governed the Isle of Ely administrative county that surrounding and included the city from 1889 to 1965. In 1965 there was a reform of local government that merged the county council with that of Cambridgeshire to form the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council .
