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A History of the County of Oxford
… To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, … about 1375, though his surname was probably hereditary. 2 In the early 16th century a chantry priest evidently taught … 'little service' and the growing town was recognized to be in need of a schoolmaster. 3 A schoolhouse was mentioned …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at Westminster in 12923 and at Exeter and Winchester a little later, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the bishop procured excommunication against unnamed … jurisdiction, administered at first by officers appointed in the borough court, and from the 17th century governed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th … of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local Lollardy: in the 1520s Witney people were among a close-knit group of …
A History of the County of Essex
… apparently remained comparatively small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of the manor was the only large … of persons assessed for subsidy was the third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port …
A History of the County of Essex
… form an estuary, covered 1,549 a. (627 ha.). 85 Its port in the south-west corner of the parish, which served … into a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of … and the river Colne and its marshes on the west and south. In 1734 woodland formed part of the eastern boundary. 87 …
A History of the County of Essex
… the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of …
A History of the County of Essex
… One Quaker and a few Anabaptists were recorded in 1664. 69 John Argor (d. 1679), who had been ejected from … at Braintree, was licensed as a Presbyterian teacher in 1672. He had a congregation at Wivenhoe, which prob- ably met in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wollaston (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of … the livings of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of Beaufort: the tithes have been …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wollaton, Olaveston WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called … four car. small wood, one leuc. long, one qu. broad. In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 100s. … The family of Mortein were the next successours to Warner in this place, of which Robert de Mortein lived in King Henry …