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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 … in the early 17th century. 18 The borough had a common seal by probably the late 13th century, 19 and occasionally …
A History of the County of Oxford
… PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … the Baptist, whose symbols formed the basis of the borough seal and who was frequently associated with medieval cloth or …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. … 8249 acres, of which 689 are common or waste. Corporation Seal. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, 178; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … into it, and remained until the day following. Corporation Seal. The town is situated on an eminence, in a district …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after … Budgets on the uppermost, and one upon the lower; 9 as the Seal of Sir Richard Willoughby, appendant to his Deed, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Records of Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, and 1747, the matters dealt with being mainly agricultural. 12 The … and leaved gold.[Granted 1960] The council's common seal was circular, 56 mm. in diameter, depicting an oak …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… wood ashes] Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to be processed to concentrate the content of …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., … for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … 1692, knighted 7 Oct., 1696, lord keeper of the great seal 1700-5; died 4 Aug., 1721; father of the next. See …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Woodborough. Udeburgh WOODBOROUGH (Udeburgh.) In Udeburg the book of Doomsday shows that St. Mary of Sudwell had Sok to … father of this Richard: on the said Robert de Stretleys seal within a fair circumscription of his name, upon a large …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton WOODDITTON Woodditton lies immediately south of Newmarket, 8 a town established c. 1200 astride the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and … bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of Newmarket High Street. 10 Newmarket was separated from its …