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A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxford graduates, were usually resident and sometimes long serving: George Self resided for 11 years before obtaining a … 22 He complained of the high costs and low rewards of serving Woodstock, although his income from Bladon, from … apparently persuaded the bishop that responsibility for serving Woodstock had passed to the corporation with the gift …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Simon Jeames (1608-32) seems to have been a lawyer serving regularly as attorney in the town's courts; 7 Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as eldest son born after the father became free, by serving a 7-year apprenticeship in a freeman's household, by … cursus honorum through which men progressed by office-serving from the rank of ordinary freeman to that of … to conveyances in the portmoot. 99 He was responsible for serving summonses, making arrests, and maintaining the prison …