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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… daughter Alice for life, his grandson Edward in tail male, and to the right heirs of his younger son Nicholas. 39 In 1581 it was passed by Thomas Gray and Joan his wife to Henry Stapleton of Rempstone (Notts.), … 42 Stapleton passed the manor in 1600 to Francis Lodge, and the latter in 1606 to William Goodday. 43 In 1629 Thomas …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Excavation of the Neolithic long barrow on Sales Lot (SP 048158) yielded an Iron Age 'A' sherd from the outer edge of the barrow and two Romano-British tile fragments in the rubble of the … There were also Romano-British potsherds, a piece of iron and a skeleton, possibly in association. 2 Romano-British …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at … 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in the late 12th or early … Godson, Witney Map (181416). Sale Cat. 24 June 1886, lot 18: copies in ORO, Dr. V/i/1; notes by J. B. Crawford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's … later edns); Oxon. Dir. (19589); Bodl. GA Oxon. b 6 (31), lot 2. Pigot's Lond. & Comm. Dir. (18234); Pigot's Nat. and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … and in Wolvercote Mead. 98 Wolvercote Mead (96 a.) was lot meadow in 1583 and remained so until 1696 when it was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … the town; 11 by the 18th century it levied its own rates and was treated as a separate cure even when held by the same …
A History of the County of Essex
… held courts for Woodford. He took the profits of justice 1 and, from the 13th century at least, held a view of … attended by 10 or more residents of the parish who paid scot and lot. From at least 1657 the more wealthy residents carried …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town may have post-dated her death c. 1176; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … able to meet the town's charges, summed up in the phrase 'scot and lot'. 61 Foreign (non-resident) freemen were to leave in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 35,473 a. (14,362 ha.) divided between 15 ancient parishes and several extraparochial places, notably Woodstock, later Blenheim, Park. Eynsham and Woodstock were boroughs and market towns. The area, lying partly on the limestone …