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A History of the County of Sussex
… year six dissenters in all were listed in the parish, 41 and in the 1680s five parishioners were presented for … 42 There was one Quaker family in 1724. 43 At least two, and possibly four, sects had congregations in the parish in … Pioneers Still: Suss. Cong. Union and Home Missionary Soc. 1849-1949, 19. Kelly's Dir. Suss. (1887, 1895). O.S. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals survive for 1598, 1602, 1609-18, 1652, 1654, 1684, and for most years from 1733. 50 Until 1764 their arrangement …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the site was later found inconvenient and in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town … duchess of Marlborough's almshouses. 5 In 1828 the unpaid benefit was reckoned to be £11 12 s., and in 1848 stock …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … rural deanery was established by the mid 13th century, and the rectors of Bladon were often called rectors of … a monument, not in a window. Diary of Ric. Symonds (Camd. Soc. 1xxiv), 164-5. Boro. Mun., file 87: TS. description of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … 17 Feb. 1989. Below, Econ. Woodstock, 1967 (Woodstock Soc. 1970): copy in Westgate Libr. Boro. Mun. 110, p. 351; …
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 … edns.). Oxf. Mail, 27 May 1953; Woodstock, 1967 (Woodstock Soc. 1970): copy in Westgate Libr. Oxf. Mail, 1 Feb. 1967. …
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 … for a National school, observed in 1815 that 'a religious and useful education is not neglected' and in 1831 that … continued to be lent out at interest for the master's benefit until taken in hand in 1640. 92 Thomas Fletcher (d. …
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 … to be the earliest box club in the county. 76 The town's friendly societies retained a high membership in the early … Friendly Society, the United Brethren, and the United Benefit Society were held on the same day in the Marlborough …
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 … scope. Corporate property was administered chiefly for the benefit of councillors and funds were provided for feasting … in 1807. 57 Selfhelp was also promoted and the town's four friendly societies had 294 members in 1803 and 260 or more 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 … for half his election expenses, whereas Barnett had the benefit of the duke's horses. 30 In 1868 G. C. Brodrick, … 288-9. D.N.B.Liber Famelicus of Sir J. Whitelocke (Camd. Soc. [1st ser.], lxx), 41. Liber Famelicus, 16, 19, 40. …
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