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A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, … and Nonconformist schools better suited to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed … The experiences of the future blanketmanufacturer William Smith (d. 1874), born in 1815 to a relatively humble family …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) … and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … explicitly mentioned in 1279 was a forge held by a smith with his house. 144 The size of the original burgage …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … had household goods valued at only 7. 62 In 1743 Thomas Smith, with 142 in finished and unfinished goods, similarly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors … f. 126; ORO, MSS dd Par. Witney c 9, f. 202; c 30, f. 113. Smith, 'Reminiscences', 7. Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. d 217, f. 104; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … proportion', and withheld payment from the mason, Humphrey Smith of Abingdon (then Berks.), because it was 'not raised …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the … the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … town's chief employers, among them members of the Early, Smith, and Marriott families, together with leading grocers, …
A History of the County of Essex
… by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. The advowson of the rectory descended with the lordship of Wivenhoe manor, … the west side of the Colne was transferred to St. Barnabas's, Old Heath. 5 The value of the rectory was estimated at 4 … 27. Feud. Aids, ii. 193; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i. 444. Smith, Eccl. Hist. Essex, 312. C. Hodgson, Queen Anne's …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … in 1838 and may have been erected in 1816 when John Smith, miller, was admitted to the plot. It was sold in 1858 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … clothing, and 15 in coal, for the poor of Wolverley. John Smith, Esq., in 1823, bequeathed 600 for founding an …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells … of Charles the first, on horseback; a family piece by Smith, in which one of the figures represents, Sir Hugh … ownself best." I saw an old carbine, in the house-keeper's room, very curiously wrought in figures, doubtless one of …