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A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to … were at first local people, the appointment of an Essex man as surveyor and inspector in 1896 marking a shift towards …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Parish church and church life PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a … the former needed assistance and the latter, though 'a man of good behaviour and well-learned', had given up …
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 … Charles Early (d. 1912), a 'convinced Nonconformist' and a man of 'stern rectitude', was similarly remembered as a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (D.d.) (O.S. 6 in. xxxvii. N.W.) Wivenhoe is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The church, Wivenhoe Hall and the house (6) are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … of marginal inscription with roundels and shield; (3) of man in armour and wife, groups of children, four shields and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which … 1630 Colchester inn- keepers and vintners paid a Wivenhoe man wharfage for wine unloaded there, although the bailiffs …
A History of the County of Essex
… a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new … 86 Natural boundaries were formed by streams on the east and north-west, Wivenhoe and Whit- more heaths on the … By 1831 Wivenhoe House, 'a handsome modern white brick man- sion', had been built east of High Street by William …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. 1 There afterwards Warner the man of William Peverell had one car. seven sochm. four vill. … but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and Sudtune. [Pedigree] The family of Mortein were the next …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … been some trees on Wolvercote Hurst. In 1502 a Wolvercote man supplied a fellow of All Souls College with nearly 600 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and Lower Wolvercote; the adjoining extra-parochial areas of … of the minster church. 48 By 1556, when a Cutteslowe man requested burial at Wolvercote, 49 the area seems to have …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wolverton 226. … of the 14th century. The tower was originally central and the N. and S. arches indicate that the plan of the church … of white marble classic detail, with recumbent figure of man on base, urn at the top, inscription at back and arms of …