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A History of the County of Oxford
… while in 15767 Peter Rankell, who served several times as bailiff, paid on 38, the highest assessment in the borough. … wealthiest taxpayer in 1544 and served several times as bailiff, 70 though another dyer in 1602, perhaps a small … owed over 400 in debts. 117 Thomas Dolley (d. 1763), town bailiff in 1732 and (like many prominent weavers) a town …
A History of the County of Oxford
… then have been reaching its limits. Certainly in 12201 the bailiff claimed a 20 s. rent-allowance for burgesses who had … Bks. p. liii; Hants RO, 11M59/B1/159, naming Hood borough bailiff in 141213; cf. Cal. Pat. 142936, 169. Cal. Pat. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… his successors in the 1880s acting also as coroner, bailiff of the county court, and clerk to the burial board. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were sometimes targeted. In 1767 the dyer and town bailiff John Shorter received an anonymous letter accusing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… liberties and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff or steward through the courts baron and a … 48 Town Bailiffs The principal office, that of reeve or bailiff, was held from the Middle Ages by leading townsmen. … the clothier Philip Box (d. 1593), constable in 1550, was bailiff seven times between 1553 and 1589, while the draper …
A History of the County of Oxford
… family, local blanket-makers, by 1818 Charles Henderson, bailiff of Witney and ranger of Wychwood Forest, and in the … was an adjoining tower at one end, used in the 1380s as a bailiff's chamber. Services, including a pantry and buttery, … esquire's, knight's, and almoner's chambers as well as bailiff's accommodation, stood possibly in the curia's …