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A History of the County of Oxford
… INDUSTRY 19001945 During the earlier 20th century Witney's economy remained chiefly dependent on the blanket industry … manufacturers, accounting for 90 per cent of the town's production in 1949; 10 in the mid 1920s Smith's merged with … below. Beckinsale, 'Cotswold Woollen Ind.' 360. ORO, B1/PL/EB/2, summary of weavers employed Aug. 1949. Plummer and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … no. 18. W. Wilkinson, Eng. Country Houses (2nd edn 1875), pl. 60. Datestone; cf. Lewis's Topog. Dict. Eng. (1840), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … Eccl. ii. 176; Oxf. Church Ct. Depositions, 15704, ed. J. Howard-Drake (1993), p. 68; 159296, ed. Howard-Drake (1998), … f. 32; illustr. in Skelton, Antiq. Oxon. Bampton Hund. pl. 5. ORO, MS dd Par. Witney c 40, a (8). Above (chantries); …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wivenhoe 98. WIVENHOE. (D.d.) (O.S. 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 and the house … and ( b) Scrope quartering Tiptoft; ( c) Vere quartering Howard impaling ( a); ( d) a quartered shield of Beaumont …
A History of the County of Essex
… Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, Henry I granted it to … 93 It then descended with the barony of Plaiz to Sir John Howard, by whose marriage to Joan Walton it was united with … and Walton families to Joan Walton (d. 1424) wife of John Howard, Lord Plaiz. Her daughter and heir Elizabeth married …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 A further appeal to the pope in 1416, against Wolvercote's liability to contribute a third of the cost of repairs to St. Peter's-in-the-East, failed; the judge at the Council of Constance, … Merton Coll. Mun., roll 3801. Parker, Guide, p. 98 and pl.; MS. note in Bodl. copy; Freeborn, Wolvercote Ch. 18. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the 10-hide royal manor in 1086 in defiance of Ely's claim, 59 which was never satisfied. The history of the … priory in 1540 60 the rectory was granted to Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of Norfolk 61 (attainted 1547, restored 1553, d. 1554), whose grandson Thomas Howard, 4th duke, having settled it in 1569 on himself for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… includes buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … a 'chapel' and may have been the site of the former bishop's residence, pulled down in the early 16th century. 13 Avon … is not shown in Andrews and Dury, Map (W.A.S. Rec. Brch.), pl. 5; nor is it mentioned in W.R.O., Sale Particulars of …
A History of the County of Essex
… by which Edward the Confessor confirmed Harold's grant of lands to the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 The … cynges hcce. If the last was Chingford Hatch, the alderman's hatch must have been in the south-west corner of Woodford; … foresters' walks in Waltham Forest reproduced in E.R. xiv. pl. bef. p. 193. E.R. xiv. 169. Cal. S.P. Dom. 162931, 345. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the parish; remains of the agger were found near Terry's Cross in the south-west corner. 10 The chief east-west road … east led from Blackstone by way of Cuckolds Green to Terry's Cross, mentioned in 1647. 16 In 1628 it was called the … Below. 250 Yrs. of Mapmaking in Suss. ed. H. Margary, pl. 20. O.S. Map 6", Suss. LII. NE. (1952 edn.); ibid. TQ 21 …