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A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's … founded Witney Express. 56 As earlier there were several watch- or clockmakers, one of whom in the 1890s was also a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was … Jacobite rebellion, while the Presbyterian minister John Ward urged enlistment and reportedly took up arms. 332 In the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … west and east of Church Green and the market place, West ward west of High Street and along Corn Street, Middle Ward … to the justices in 1738 for refusing to take up their watch while a constable was ill. 169 A bellman or town crier, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group … house. 42 Mather was succeeded in the 1730s by John Ward, son of a Whig draper from Coleshill (Warws.). 43 In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and comprising 869 a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, … by an ancient intrenchment supposed to be British, and to have been afterwards occupied by the Romans, Roman … in the union of Chester-le-Street, W. division of Chester ward, N. division of the county of Durham, 3 miles (W.) from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … in the union of Weardale, N. W. division of Darlington ward, S. division of the county of Durham, 10 miles (W. N. …
A Dictionary of London
… "lay between the tenement of Sir John de Pulteneye and the tenement of Bartholomew Denmars and was a public way to the Thames. In 17 Ed. III. complaint … out of Harrow Alley, Middlesex Street. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27-O.S.25 in. 1880). Strype …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, and 1747, the matters dealt with being mainly agricultural. … until 1857. 13 Priorslee was part of Shifnal manor and parish 14 and Ketley Bank part of Leegomery manor. 15 A … (Hortonwood) was included with adjoining C.P.s in Hadley ward. In 1968 Oakengates was included in the designated area …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … May, 1678, aged 17; his father governor of Windsor Castle, and knighted 20 May, 1660; brother of Edward. Woodcock, … Charles 1660, etc. See Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary; Ward's Gresham Professors, 95; & Foster's Inns of Court Reg. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the antiquities that have been found are, foundations and ruins of buildings, fragments of statues, stags' horns, … of the Lower Empire, a coin of Adrian, one of Lucilla, and a noble tessellated pavement, of which an engraving was … poor-law union of Alnwick, E. division of Coquetdale ward, N. division of Northumberland, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) …