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A History of the County of Oxford
… and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited goods usually belonging to the … of Winchester was to convey a forger from thence to Newgate. 156 There was apparently no local prison in 147980, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong recusant tradition in the town either then or later. 1 In 1549 Oxfordshire gentry met at Witney to coordinate suppression of the Prayer Book rebellion, which … was Thomas Wenman of Witney Park, related to the prominent recusant family of Fermor. 3 Two or three members of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… the younger, a minor. Lawton later sold the advowson to C. E. Egerton-Green (d. 1904) whose widow Alice Helen transferred it in 1931 to the diocesan bishop. 4 In 1984 the part of Wivenhoe parish … to the living in 1564. 29 Formerly a weaver, he was a committed Calvinist, who had been exiled in Switzerland in …
A History of the County of Essex
… Drury, whose wife Mary was the sister of the staunchly recusant Catherine Audley of Berechurch, lived in Wivenhoe … and attracted c. 100-110 people every Sunday. 68 Essex Recusant, v. 41; xii. 41; xxi. 29. E.R.O., D/DU 318/1. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been completely reorganized in the later Middle Ages, … ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow gave to St. Frideswide's its land in St. Clement's parish and at … corner of Wolvercote field. The 9 ½ a. titheable to Water Eaton in 1765, which bore no relation to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Nonconformity. Richard Owen of Godstow was returned as a recusant in the 1590s, 64 and his influence may have … followers attended the service at Ladson's house, or went to his chapel in Oxford. 71 Applications for meeting house … in Gothic style, of yellow brick with stone facings. Recusant Roll 1592-3 (Cath. Rec. Soc. xviii), 252; 1593-4 …
Alumni Oxonienses
… college, New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … English college at Rheims; on returning to England, he was committed to the Tower and imprisoned for some months; … circa (April) 1624-5, 1625, 1626, taken prisoner and committed to the Tower, where he died in 1652; brother of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Local government Local government BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the … tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their market, probably also had their court or portmoot, … newcomers, all resident, including at least one known recusant. 38 The charter was effectively annulled by a royal …
A History of the County of Oxford
… representation 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 … not seek election himself in 1679, perhaps because of his recusant connexions. 23 The M.P.s chosen at both elections in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Roman Catholicism. Woodstock presumably had a significant recusant community in 1620 when it was included among centres … fined, and one or two recusants were reported from time to time until Catholic emancipation. 51 By 1930, 52 when … priest. From 1934 until 1945 there was a school next to the church. 54 In 1955 the priest moved to Kidlington …