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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to 880 a. of arable, 2 divided between a larger area 'on one side of the township' (evidently in the open fields) … and a small part 'on the other side', presumably in closes or fields south-east of Ditton Green. 3 Ditton Valence's home … cash rents. 10 Ditton Valence had eleven greater and six or seven lesser tenants in 1302. 11 The larger holdings were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cheveley. 58 Archbishop Stigand later held it as lessee or custodian of the abbey, and on his death in 1072 it was taken by William I. William de … sold Ditton Camoys in 1393 to William Rickhill 77 (d. 1407 or 1408), whose son John was in possession in 1412 78 and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Allen at about 140 ft. above O.D. the land rises gently, on Chalk, to a low N.-S. ridge capped by Reading Beds, about … eaves have a plaster cove. Many openings have been blocked or altered in size. A doorway near the N. end of the … some aligned E.-W., and are probably of Christian-Saxon or later date ( Dorset Procs., 84 (1962), 11725). Roman and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single … of families rated at one hearth and few at three or more, in the Hearth Tax returns. This did not imply … that this arch opened off the chancel to a transept or chapel, and that a similar arrangement probably existed on …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… parish of Woodsford, covering some 1,700 acres, lies on the S. side of the river Frome, 4 m. E. of Dorchester. It … but nothing now remains above ground of the walls or buildings that closed the other three sides. Hutchins (I, … strongly fortified house of the mid 14th century, more or less symmetrical on plan and so arranged that the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. … no. 30, which remained part of the inn until 1840 or later, 9 was let separately until sold c. 1886 with nos. … of the inn, 14 and may have been concerned in the design or building of the main ranges. The rebuilding of no. 32 in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were successors to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 … bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the site was later found inconvenient … to maintain the buildings, 83 which comprised six or seven appartments, usually, by the 1870s, occupied by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… closely involved in church administration. The proctors or chapelwardens accounted annually before the mayor, and the … in the portmoot, began as a record of the 'livelihood' or property of the chapel in 1461. 44 So close a relationship … elsewhere, early corporate life in the borough had centred on a religious guild, 45 and that the instruments of 1453 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the deliberate marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to … for only £4, which included market tolls and quitrents or 'landgable', small annual rents applied to the original … in the borough, of which 76 were described as tenements or parts thereof, 30 as messuages, and 33 as cottages; there …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 … 7 paid more than 3 s. 73 In 1334 the town was assessed on total wealth of only c. 38. 74 Population seems to have … to have been succeeded there by the mercer John Barnes (or Baron), ten times mayor in the early 16th century. …