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A History of the County of Oxford
… estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization … In 1502 a Wolvercote man supplied a fellow of All Souls College with nearly 600 bundles of firewood, and in 1650 two … 25 In the early 19th century the tenant of the St. John's College property in Wolvercote, 4 ¼ yardlands in 1636, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to have been no school in the parish before the beginning of the 19th century when dame or 'petty' schools were … supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton College, was attended by 101 children, and in 1823 the master … for 103 and was attended by 51 boys and girls and 64 infants daily and by 100 children on Sundays; the vicar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the … the later Wolvercote Green, and the substantial St. John's College farmhouse, later Manor Farm, further north. The … house, shortly before 1636 when it was sold to St. John's College. It was refronted and otherwise improved in the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Roger d'Ivri held WOLVERCOTE in 1086, and Godfrey held of him. 61 There is no further record of the under-tenancy, … and, on the suppression of that house in 1525, to Cardinal College. 73 After Cardinal Wolsey's attainder Cutteslowe passed, with most of the rest of his college's endowments, to Henry VIII's College until its …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. … been commuted for 740, payable to the rector, and Trinity College, Cambridge. A school at Hemingfield is supported by a … Legge, 31 years rector of the parish. A national and an infants' school are supported by the rector, who has a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 58 and the school opened in 1878. A continuing shortage of school places was relieved by enlargements of the board … the county council and the Walker Trust. Walker Technical College, Hartsbridge Road, opened in 1927. 73 It became the … places in three departments; there was a master's house. Infants paid 2 d. a week and older pupils 3 d., more than in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (O.S. 6 in. xlvii. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Paul, in the village, has walls re-faced with modern flint; the dressings are of stone; the roofs are covered with lead, except that of the N. chapel, which is tiled. The Nave is partly of late …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … aged 16, M.A. 16 Nov., 1648; B.A. from Cambridge, Harvard college, New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be … D.Med. 1724, regius professor of medicine 1730-58, fellow college of physicians 1729; died at Bath 13 Nov., 1758; …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester WOODCHESTER (11 miles W. of Cirencester) A silver spoon in the Ashmolean Museum was recovered from West Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the … on Bown Hill, at SO 82300180, was taken to Cheltenham College Museum. 2 The alleged site 3 of the 'Roman brickyard' …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… will dated 1705, left £400 to pay three or four poor women of the parish to teach girls. By 1718 the sum had increased … purchased at Hamfallow, in Berkeley. 9 By 1818 the number of the dame schools had increased to six, some of which had … purchased for use as a Sunday school 16 and later for the infants' section of the parochial school. The income from the …