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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In the Middle … and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … their names in the later 13th century from the surnames of the families which had owned them from c. 1200. 57 DITTON …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … present Value. Use. 1585. Robert Rampston, 1l. per annum, Bread. 1625. Mrs. Elizabeth Elwes, 5l. per annum, Poor. 1659. … John Baverley, at the rent of 30l. per annum; the rents of assize were 4l. 7s. 10d; the profits of court 4l. 7s. 7d. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Education and charities EDUCATION. In 1796 there was a Sunday school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed … was 260 stock, the income from which was spent on bread for the poor. Another group of charities consisted of …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits of justice 1 and, from the 13th century at least, held a view of … grazing on the common. As well as constables one or two bread- and ale-tasters were usually elected. The number of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Church CHURCH. There was a church in 1086, 77 and by the mid 1220s the benefice was a rectory. 78 From 1958 … in plurality with Albourne, 79 and in 1978 it became part of the united benefice of Henfield with Shermanbury and Woodmancote, the parishes …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation … The site bore an annual rent charge of 6 s. 8 d. for a bread charity founded by William Cornwell, baker, in 1552. 99 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the … Street with 6 s. 8 d. to be distributed to the poor in bread on Good Friday. 87 The rent charge was confirmed in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was … by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … distinct from the ½ d. payments made by communicants for bread and wine in the 17th century and early 18th. 50 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed … marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … the park walls. There were bars at the town's entrances. Ale Bar gate on the Oxford road, recorded in 1504, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … Market Place. 34 The borough charter of 1453 granted the assize of bread and of ale to the mayor, and the charter of 1565 …