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A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The … by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their market, probably also had their court or … began to buy national lottery tickets in the vain hope of financing a new town hall. 91 Loans from councillors …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were … clerk, the recorder, and the rector, Joseph Bowles; 21 a hope was expressed in 1840 that under the new duke 'the old …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … is enumerated by Nennius under the name of Caer Guorangon in his catalogue of cities belonging to the Britons, by whom, … their arms, and the enemy advancing on all sides, every hope of victory was dispelled; Cromwell carried the royal …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… good meanes and [illegible] [...nt?] remedye may be taken. In tender consyderacion whereof, and [illegible] sayde … of the truthe and by [illegible] [illegible] tratours and in due execution of justice and [on?] her majesties … widowe whom he hath lately most gretly abused which we hope will be a greate occasion of quietnes and good …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Ref.110 BA1/1/16/29 (1601) To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of … and one whoe was borne and hath byn alwayes dwellinge in Odingley and haveinge noe maintenance or frindes to … with this your peticioners daughter (which she had by one Hope, her first husband) and about some five yeares agone …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… that money shulde be taxed upon certaine inhabitantes in sondry parishes, within this countie, towardes the necessary relief of the late infected persons, in the tythinge of Whitstone, betwene the parishe of Claynes … anie abuses to be committed in his howse, and soe wee hope he will contynue, if yt may stand with your good …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… right worshippfull the Kinges majesties justices of peace in the countye of Worcester. May yt please your worshipps, … certificattes preferred by us the parishoners of Bayton in this countye of Worcester whose names are thereunto … their tippleing and aleselling, and keeping disorder in their howses, yet the said Thomas Byrd for his parte ys …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… over the Kinges highe waye betweene Eckington and Norton in the countie of Worcester into a grounde of your … peticion of Richard Ockley Shewethe, that he beinge borne in the parishe of Crowle, hath for the space of three yeres … in resitinge the whole cause of my myseryes but I hope heare are [illegible] some have not for gott the matter …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… bodyes, soe that yf they shold be inforced to lye longer in this miserable place, wold unchristianlike be starved to … and Phillip Treamer, late constables of St Michaels in Bedwardine. Ref.110 BA1/1/26/44 (1619) To the right … to purloyne and secretlye gett money to mainetayne him in hope of mariage, and afterwardes by the worshipfull bench he …