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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… certain benefactions, 24 and the interest on 'town stock'. In the period between 24 August 1591 and 1 May 1592 … for the collection for the pore of Wisbich'. 26 The town stock consisted of the capital of well-to-do orphans invested … 258. Ibid. 247. W. Watson, Hist. Wisb. 164. The 'orphan stock' in 1594 amounted to £280 9 s. Some was lent out in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… highly enriched. Richard Melhuish, Esq., in 1799 gave 500 stock, the dividends arising from which are applied in aid of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… bequests, together with part of Richard Ashcombe's 100 stock, were on loan to varied tradesmen, for whom they … were excluded from the investment of most other charity-stock in land at Eynsham, but by the early 18th century … funds to tradesmen, the town had accumulated some 417 of stock for charitable purposes, which a Charity Commission …
A History of the County of Oxford
… supplemented their income by small-scale arable farming or stock-rearing, either in closes outside the town or in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was demolished in 1888, to be replaced by a two-storeyed stock house; the sites's subsequent expansion is detailed … Farm Mill) rebuilt in the 1830s, continued in use as a stock house in the later 20th century. 47 The expanded site …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… men described as clothiers whose possessions included no stock-in-trade or raw materials; significantly, such men … at his death in 1622, owned two looms but no capital stock, though his household goods in hall, buttery and two … chambers of better-off townsmen by that time. 96 Tools and stock-in-trade were also kept in chambers. A fuller in 1676 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… waterworks (in Minster Lovell parish), a large housing stock, and several recreation grounds. 338 Langdale Hall, …