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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 … out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a large pre-Conquest estate. … existed by the 1580s, when two houses there were sold to a tailor. 204 A house was built against the town hall's north …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and … gable to the street, perhaps of the late 15th or early 16th century. No. 49 Market Square is a … workers as two power-loom tuners, a metal turner, a tailor, a fellmonger's manager, and an engineer's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems likely, the earliest … survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant … not all early adherents necessarily lived within the town or parish. For much of the 18th century Dissent, though … f. 183. Ch. and Chapel, 1851, no. 120 (giving 1824); P. Guy Stanford, 'Newland Meth. Church, 18271977' (Anniversary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong recusant tradition in the town either then or later. 1 In 1549 Oxfordshire gentry met at Witney to … women, including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and tailor's wife. 6 Two or three Catholic families remained in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… 6 in. xxxvii. N.W.) Wivenhoe is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall … century and of two storeys, timber-framed and plastered or weather-boarded; the roofs are tiled. Many of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe … In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. E.) from Chepstow; … This parish is divided into the North and South sides or divisions, embracing 10,380 acres, whereof 2036 are …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. 1 There afterwards Warner the man of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization is described … South, East, and West. 93 The arrangement of the fields or furlongs for crop rotation before the 19th century is not … in 1592, is probably also significant. 59 An Irish tailor lived in the parish in 1394. 60 A Wolvercote chapman …