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A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as … 3 boarding houses which supplemented the town's inns and public houses in the 1930s. The owner of the Marlborough …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a … 1874-5 [C. 1265-1], p. 393, H.C. (1875), xxiv; Return of Public Elem. Schs.1875-6 [C. 1882], pp. 216-17, H.C. (1877), lxvii. Public Elem. Schs. 1890, p. 216, H.C. 403 (1890), 1vi. Inf. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … 20 From the later 17th century the range of official festivities narrowed, but leet dinners continued and the … and in the 1830s the Oxfordshire Yeomanry held annual public horse races as part of their summer exercises in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … provided for feasting and other entertainments but not for public services. 40 The right to levy rates was not invoked … the chamberlains continued to contribute to some public festivities. After the breakdown of corporate government in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The … provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, implying that the franchise, as in mayoral …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for meeting-house licences. … G. G. Banbury, draper. Banbury campaigned for the town's public cemetery and the abolition of church rates in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (W.) from Wells; containing, with the tything of Yarley, and part of Wookey-Hole, 1187 inhabitants. The living is a … and supplied with water from a fountain erected at the public expense; a good troutstream flows through the lower … kept. Here is a branch of the North of England bank; a public subscription library is supported, and a mechanics' …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at Aluredston. Three demesne servants were employed, and 22 boonworks at haymaking and 102 boonworks at harvest were worked; in addition, … of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted of eight oxen and two other draught animals, and wheat, barley, peas, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of the charity funds in 1683. 99 In … resolved to appoint a mistress to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the Clayton charity of 40 s. a year was paid regularly to … Ibid.; Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1885 and later edns.). Public Elem. Schs. 1906, 191. Bd. of Educ. List 21, 1936 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Gwillim (d. 1724), variously described between 1664 and 1714 as a labourer, gentleman, and esquire, who had an estate worth £180 in 1714. 77 … is attached. There is a burial ground, and near-by a public hall was built by the Moravians in the late 19th …