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A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and … below. Select Cttee on Oxf. and Gt. Western Union Railway Bill (Parl. Papers (HL) 18378 (227), xx), p. 27; Oxf. Jnl. 16 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … Street referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and (possibly) town quarries were …
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. division of Somerset, 28 … of Edward II., it belonged to the Despencers, and on their attainder was given by Edward III. to Edmund of Woodstock, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Roger d'Ivri held WOLVERCOTE in 1086, and Godfrey held of him. 61 There is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held … in 1525, to Cardinal College. 73 After Cardinal Wolsey's attainder Cutteslowe passed, with most of the rest of his …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged 18. [ 5] Woodbridge, Benjamin of Wilts, sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Nov., 1638, aged … chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., 1684, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … their names in the later 13th century from the surnames of the families which had owned them from c. 1200. 57 DITTON … succeeded by Edmund's son Sir William Oldhall. During his attainder 14525 his lands were held by Jasper Tudor, earl of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … O.R.O., D.V. VIII/275; D.V. X/23; ibid. Misc. Darby 1/27; bill of 1895; Misc. Brotherton 1/3. For no. 7 High Street, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … George Whitton, alderman and M.P., probably instigated the Bill and certainly paid for the new wool market; there may … HO 107/890, 893, 1730. Sel. Cttee. on G. W. Union Rly. Bill, H.L. 227, pp. 11420. Oxoniensia, iii. 148 sqq.; H. A. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … 13. In the later 16th century the corporation promoted a bill to make Woodstock a staple town which failed in 1572 but … trading in wool and yarn within the borough. 15 In 1581 a bill to restrict such trade to inhabitants only, except on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of … have been moderates, and neither voted for the Exclusion Bill: Sir Littleton Osbaldeston of Chadlington, a lawyer … duke and the sitting members never supported the Reform Bill; 7 even Lord Blandford, who had proposed enlarging …