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A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by … sheriffs of Oxfordshire, 81 and in 1230, for example, the sheriff as custos answered directly in the Exchequer for the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… is a parish and small village 7 m. S.E. of Hereford. The church and Capler Camp are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. George stands near the middle of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … Woolpit (St. Mary) WOOLPIT ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stow, hundred of Thedwastry, W. division of … to the family of Walter, of whom David Walter was high sheriff of the county, and commanded a regiment of horse …
The Environs of London
… how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the … in the record of Doomsday as the property of Haimo the sheriff 6. Henry the Second, about the year 1160, gave the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the Swere, … twice each year, near Easter and Michaelmas, at which the sheriff viewed the frankpledge. Probably then, as in the 14th …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … into England, was appointed constable, being also made sheriff of the county. He extended the buildings of the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Sessions: 1618 William Lyes. Ref.110 BA1/1/21/79 (1618) To the right honourable Sir John Crooke knight one of the Kinges majesties justices of assizes and gayle deliverye for the countye of Worcester. The humble peticion of William …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1690s The poor inhabitants of the tything of Whitstones. Ref.110 BA1/1/167/14 (1693) To the worshipfull their majesties justices of the peace for the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… & Radford WORKSOP, WIRCHESOP, & RADFORD. Elsi before the Norman invasion had two manors in Werchesope, which paid to the geld as three car. The land being then sufficient for … the sea. He survived not very long, for Raph Murdac the sheriff, 27 H. 2, 9 gave account of 42l. 12s. 10d. of the …