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A History of the County of Oxford
… developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the … to the original building plots. 94 Quitrents rose from 36 s. 5 d. in 1230 to 43 s. in the 1260s, c. 45 s. in 1279, and … and the grammar school of 1585, housed from c. 1600 in a room attached to the church. 91 All were later demolished. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market … from the 1830s until the 1890s, operated from a rented room in the town hall. 77 In 1841 Gillett & Tawney of Banbury …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with … of trade to the vicinity of the court, and Henry's motives probably included a desire for rents and tolls as … Park 6 and was perhaps founded only shortly before Henry's death in 1189, for in 1194 its rents apparently yielded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the borough's rents, market tolls, and profits of court. 79 In King … may have been enlarged in 1874. 11 In 1895 a retiring room was built on the first floor over part of the stair. 12 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Wool 52 WOOL (8486) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish … the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on … Range has, next to the transept, a small Sacristy or Book-room. It has traces of a barrel vault, a doorway from the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… than Woolaston. 9 Rents of assize between £6 and £6 10 s. were received from Aluredston manor by the lordship of … to a number of tenants. Aluredston was worth only £3 10 s., but receipts of £25 12 s. 8 d. from fixed rents and … 1808 and 1833 by William Packer into a house with leather-room and drying loft. It was sold in 1849 to Francis Clark, a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… size of the hamlet is that in 1769 there was a blacksmith's shop. 28 Most of the older houses in the parish are in two … The deep valley east of Brockweir is crossed by Offa's Dyke, constructed between c. 784 and c. 796, and here … Local information. N.L.W., Badminton MS. 2494 [in muniment room at Badminton House in 1969], transcribed as 'Dingal …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Crown until c. 1115 when Henry I gave them to William's grandson Walter de Clare (d. c. 1138). Walter founded … (d. c. 1148) and between c. 1148 and 1155 by the latter's son Richard (d. 1176). 10 The manor was held by Tintern … (d. 1666), 94 whose tombstone in the floor of a downstairs room in the farm-house was removed c. 1950. 95 His nephew was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… east - west street. They include Dawbins, Jacobs, Tassel's Cottage, no. 4 Vicarage Road, and Apple Tree Cottage. … Sir John Hody (d. 1441), chief justice of the king's bench. 6 Fifty horsemen, a foot company from the Bridgwater … dwellings in 1975, is a high-quality 17th-century three-room, cross-passage house, with an early 16th-century core. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 … 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 6. 18. 9., and in the patronage of Mrs. L. Flood … opened for divine service; the library and reading-room are well supplied with works of general literature and …