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A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1587 with Richard Cornwell's bequest for the grammar school, were transferred to the corporation in 1599 and … usually granted on long leases to provide the bulk of the school's income. 53 No. 8 belonged to Thomas Croft in 1477 … was paid to the corporation after 1565. 60 In 1592 the school trustees let no. 12, called the White Hart but no …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of London, to be divided equally between the grammar school, a sermon, and doles of 6 d. to the poor who attended … the capital to be replaced from the income of the grammar school estate. 20 By will proved 1817 George, duke of … in 1646 by Charles Padget, a former pupil of the grammar school, was kept up to date and few charities had lapsed by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of whom several were also headmaster of the grammar school. 15 One early 19th-century rector complained that the … of Old Woodstock and Blenheim Park. 19 A Sunday school was established in 1787 and supported thereafter by … that the duke frustrated his plans to establish a National school and improve church seating. The duke complained to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… mentioned in the early 17th century, and the grammar school of 1585, housed from c. 1600 in a room attached to the … wares, while bulks were perhaps unroofed stalls or shop boards. Staircase encroachments may have been projecting … Catholic church was built on Hensington Road in 1934. 41 A school was built on the site of Marlborough School in 1940 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Webley had a glove factory in the former industrial school behind his house, no. 24 Park Street; in 1967 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Education Woodstock had an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th … a keen educationist frustrated in his plans for a National school, observed in 1815 that 'a religious and useful … provision for the poor. 86 The opening of an infants' school in 1840 and, belatedly, of a National school in 1854 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… local wool trade, and in 1585 the town acquired a grammar school. 72 The extent of building activity in the late 16th … Oxon.' (Birm. Univ. Ph. D. thesis, 1981), 332-3. National school and in 1873 Benjamin Disraeli inspected schools and a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was closely involved in the establishment of the grammar school, and in 1599 obtained a licence to hold in mortmain lands valued at 100, of which 20 was for the school and the rest for the poor and for disabled soldiers. … Park; later the corporation arranged with local hospital boards to take patients with infectious diseases. 1 The pest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a stable in High Street. 61 The Baptists opened a Sunday school, and in 1831 there was a thriving Independent Sunday school lately separated from the Baptist chapel under the … 78 In 1859 a new chapel was opened in a former infants' school in Oxford Street, earlier the parochial workhouse, and …