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A History of the County of Oxford
… To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, … and Nonconformist schools better suited to the town's needs. John Holloway's Bluecoat school at West End, endowed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) … and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors …
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 … east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … nephew of Bishop William Wykeham, was his uncle's first warden at New College, Oxford, 52 and Lionel Woodville …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the … the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … manufacturer with London connections whose son became warden of the Blanket Company, and several members of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. … of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from Somerton, and 155 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2984 inhabitants. This place is … in the king's books at 8; patrons and appropriators, the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford. The great …
A History of the County of Essex
… and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest … third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles … a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT From 1246 the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their … 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … 95; patron, the Vicar of Alberbury; impropriators, the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' College, Oxford. The chapel, …