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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 … in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a list of doles to the almshouse poor c. 1630 evidently included … (d. 1619), 10 s. a year, 90 and Henry Hopkins of Exeter College, Oxford (d. 1643), 4 s. a year. 91 Bread …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was … of Oxford colleges. William Laud, president of St. John's College and later archbishop of Canterbury, 89 preached many … and brass to Jerome Kyte (d. 1631), fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. 26 Lost monuments include a brass, formerly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed … Woodstock property, which passed c. 1453 to Magdalen College, Oxford; by then it was difficult to collect rents … which had long been amalgamated or ruinous, and the college eventually secured only 6 a. in Old Woodstock and a …
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 … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … trade to the Second World War, which brought first Malvern College and then government employees to Blenheim Palace, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … educational provision for the poor. 86 The opening of an infants' school in 1840 and, belatedly, of a National school … John Case, a native of Woodstock and fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, who transferred the loan from the college on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … the disruption of civic life. 91 In 1646 University College, Oxford, blamed the 'unruly times' for rent loss and … III visited Woodstock he lodged in the town. 97 New College, Oxford, reckoned that its rent from Woodstock …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose … the Glyme above the meadows, who were the duke and Balliol College. 58 In the mid 20th century the meadows were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was a registered meeting, probably Baptist, at the house of Samuel Wise, an Old Woodstock farmer, but in 1738 the … maintained chiefly by student pastors from Regent's Park College, Oxford. The church comprised 21 members in 1938 and … in 1851. 78 In 1859 a new chapel was opened in a former infants' school in Oxford Street, earlier the parochial …
A History of the County of Oxford
… community in 1620 when it was included among centres of the Jesuit mission in Oxfordshire. 50 In 1625 three women … Lady Terry, and served by Jesuit priests from Heythrop College. In 1934 the church of St. Hugh of Lincoln was built … to Kidlington which became the parochial centre. Heythrop College until its closure in 1969 helped with the ministry, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of the charity funds in 1683. 99 In 1781 the vestry resolved … to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the Clayton charity of 40 s. a year was paid regularly to a master in the years …