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A History of the County of Sussex
… 85 The living was valued at £10 in 1291, including 13 s. 4 d. in tithes from a ploughland at Truleigh in Edburton. … rectory then owned a portion of tithe corn worth 7 s. a year in Shermanbury, 87 and in 1675 the rector received … and 2 a. in Henfield. 88 The living was valued at £13 1 s. 10 d. net in 1535. 89 On one occasion at least in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the … the corner block was occupied by the Woodstock Literary Institute, 50 perhaps from its foundation in 1852 when the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the Poor Municipal Charities. The corporation's first almshouses were successors to those founded in the … 1612 and again in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a list of doles to the almshouse poor c. 1630 … appartments, usually, by the 1870s, occupied by single women. 84 The corporation sold the almshouses in the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and burial ground were reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 … in an agreement with Bladon parishioners over Woodstock's responsibility for repairs to Bladon church and churchyard, … usually called the Bladon composition, rising from 3 s. to 3 s. 4 d. a year; 39 a payment to Bladon in 1555 was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … until the later 18th century. In 1768 only 4050 men and women, earning 8 s.9 s. a week, were said to be employed in … cutting leather, and the gloves were sewn by 1, 4001,500 women, mostly out-workers in surrounding villages, earning 8 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with … small hospitals in the vicinity: a house for leprous women was mentioned in 1182 and 1232, the leper hospital of … mentioned in 1787 and the 1820s. 64 The Woodstock Literary Institute, at first called the Mechanics' Institute, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … a common punishment for minor pilfering, and ducking of women, common in the early 17th century, was still ordered by … not carried through, 81 but when the Woodstock Literary Institute was closed in 1894 the corporation bought the books …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the Jesuit mission in Oxfordshire. 50 In 1625 three women recusants were fined, and one or two recusants were … Cath. Miss. 6. Ibid. 67; Salter, 'Oxon. Recusants', O.A.S. Rep. (1924), 42; Bp. Fell and Nonconf. 66; Secker's Visit. 19; O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. d 581, f. 151. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the patronage of the Subdean of Wells, valued in the king's books at 12. 15. 10.: the great tithes have been commuted … of Bindon, Wareham division of Dorset, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Wareham; containing 505 inhabitants. It comprises … public subscription library is supported, and a mechanics' institute was established in 1827. The market is on Thursday. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the manor, was sold in 1872 by Henry, Duke of Beaufort, to S. S. Marling. 5 Sir Percival Scrope Marling presented in 1931, … 1274 Tintern Abbey agreed that the vicar should receive 40 s. and all altar dues, mortuaries, tithes of gardens and …