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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the new shire hall on the South Brink, was used for French prisoners of war. This jail was closed in 1846 and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… elsewhere, for instance the west gallery with 18th-century French boiseries, and the library with Flemish Gothic and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the town for 2 years. William Gunn ( fl. 1628) of London, wine-porter: by lifetime gift before 1628, 10 to be lent …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rising food prices, and in the 1790s the impact of the French wars, prompted further crises, marked by severe … was ended through the mediation of a magistrate. 142 The French wars of the 1790s, like earlier conflicts, brought … the premises, as did other tradesmen occasionally, 168 but wine was presumably imported from London or elsewhere: in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… imported from Southampton in the 1460s and 1470s included wine and oysters, 46 and by the 1480s the town had attracted … imported 58 balets of woad, together with alum, madder, wine, and oil: that year Witney ranked sixth among towns …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1880 also at Market Square, stocked similar goods and were wine and spirit merchants, while Valentine and Barrell, who …
A History of the County of Oxford
… tradesmen, and farmers' of the area by offering English, French and Latin, arithmetic, and natural science, together …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ernest Newton's, for Lemuel Druce of Saltmarsh & Druce, wine and provision merchants in Market Square. 144 An earlier … was the Witney mason William Biles, and the builder Elijah French. 252 The chapel was renovated in 1907, when stained … that he came for pleasure as well as business. 259 Wine was imported from Southampton in 1208, 260 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a pantry and buttery, a 'chamber next the hall', a wine house or cellar, and a kitchen and bakehouse, stood …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gabled bellcot, replacing an earlier conical bellcot in French style. In 1851 there were 499 sittings. 222 An organ …