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A History of the County of Oxford
… growth and prosperity, market and fair income declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading … also a market, but no formal grant is known. Selds (booths or shops) were repaired in 121011, 3 and from 1218 combined … 9 The underlying cause was presumably insufficient trade or bypassing of the market, though occasional disruption may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with some leading clothiers operating on a national or international scale. More general resurgence of the town's … evidence, apparently incomers from surrounding villages or rival towns: toponymics in or before the 1250s included … important. 74 From 1370 the bishop used Witney as a collection centre for wool from his manors in the area, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a tenth of the working population in 1851 were farmers or agricultural labourers, with another 3 per cent engaged in predominantly agricultural crafts such as smithying or coopering, and 7 per cent described merely as 'labourers' in either agriculture or industry. Lawyers, doctors, churchmen, and those of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a … while a growing number of private and endowed elementary or Nonconformist schools, among them a Quaker school … education, which had included no grammar, history or geography, at a night school run by a former …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gable to the street, perhaps of the late 15th or early 16th century. No. 49 Market Square is a … the town hall, was probably the 'new built' house or tenement fronted with brick mentioned in 1739. 13 The … map, nos. 80720, 889, 893907. For Luckett, B. Glithero, 'Contribution of the Early Family towards Wesleyan Methodism …
A History of the County of Oxford
… freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines … surviving court was theirs and not the lord's, prompting collection of affidavits in preparation for a hearing before … 20th century, Oxfordshire County Council paying an annual contribution which was periodically renegotiated; 118 in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the … completed in 1723, and 'rebuilt' (presumably remodelled or repaired) by Freind's son and successor William in 1754. … recorded rectors between c. 1200 and 1500 were graduates, or men about whom enough is known to assume a higher …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not all early adherents necessarily lived within the town or parish. For much of the 18th century Dissent, though … being largely through association with the Independents or Congregationalists. 10 From the 1760s, however, the … NM2/29/A2/1, s.a. 1882, 1885; datestone. B. Glithero, 'Contribution of Early Family towards Wesleyan Methodism in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… conjecture has deduced the latter from the Saxon Willi or Vili, signifying "many," and Combe, "a deep ravine" or "dell." The town occupies a gentle eminence, in an … with paintings by the most celebrated masters, and a collection of upwards of 280 portraits of distinguished …
A History of the County of Essex
… £50 to invest in land for the benefit of poor sailors or their widows. 16 In 1752 c. 3 a. of land at Wivenhoe heath … century an average of eight people a year received clothes or material. As the rent of the field rose towards the middle … poor of Wivenhoe with preference given to retired sailors or widows of sailors. 18 William Sandford, by will proved …