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A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … comprised 2,842 a. Buncton chapelry, a detached portion of Ashington parish which lay entirely within Wiston and … 59 until 1778 when it was sold to Charles Goring. 60 The Committee for Plundered Ministers had presented c. 1652, 61 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 … the house with a loan from the Diocesan Education Committee. In 1938 an appeal was launched to fund new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was … council. It includes a stage, ballroom, gallery, bar, and committee rooms. 203 Market House ( Butter Cross) In 1560 the … Men's Reading Room and Library opened by the Temperance Committee in 1869. 389 Pressure for a public library was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … once a year around Easter to elect churchwardens and to audit their accounts, the assembly being officially called a … committees, and in 1807 there were ten. By then a small committee met weekly to assist the churchwardens and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The estate was … estate given by Abingdon abbey to Brihthelm, bishop of Wells. 1 The Crown recovered the Witney estate before … paid rent arrears for the manor to a local Parliamentary Committee. 10 In 1649, however, the Parliamentary Trustees …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early … to 1968, after which disagreements between its management committee and the parish clergy, financial difficulties, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th century, reflected the … as an allowed meeting after the Friends' Home Mission Committee supplied a resident worker, and the meeting house …
A History of the County of Essex
… estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden hundred; the lord of … was said to be fishing. 89 Seven of the original committee of 11 of the Colchester Mutual Marine Insurance …
A History of the County of Essex
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT From 1246 the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their … remaining powers after 1834 actively: a nuisance removal committee was set up in 1855 and a sanitary inspector … supply, drainage, and unfit housing. In 1866 a vestry committee, having inspected pollution in Wivenhoe brook, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estate at Cutteslowe was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization … below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been completely reorganized … parish council in 1895 and by the Wolvercote commoners' committee in 1929. 28 Plans made in 1913 to draw up a Scheme …