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A History of the County of Oxford
… in a petition by Witney clothiers in 1694 on behalf of the Royal African Company, complaining that threats to the … Witney blanket-weavers petitioned in 1641 against royal patentees who for 30 years had inspected and sealed … Blanket Weavers' Company was accordingly established by royal charter in 1711, an unusually late date for a body …
A History of the County of Oxford
… exclusion, under the bishop's medieval franchises, of the royal clerk of the market, who occasionally visited and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… coincided with a visit during that year, 21 and certainly royal visits to Witney or nearby Woodstock sometimes had … 14th century, 22 while raids at Witney manor house by royal retainers in 13001 and 13856 23 may indicate wider … VCH Oxon. ii. 247 suggests (on dubious evidence) that a royal payment in 1221 was for purchase of woollen goods at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Newland (in Cogges) in 121213 along a pre-existing 'royal way' to Eynsham and Oxford, both of which probably … (Airfield Focus no. 49, Peterborough, 2002); idem., 'Royal Air Force Witney', Rec. Witney, vol. 2, no. 3 [n.d.], …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Reeves. Built of stone in an Italianate style, with the royal arms over the door, it comprised a court room, a … and more importantly its proximity to Oxford and to the royal palace and hunting lodge at Woodstock. The bishops' … (120538), who had particularly close relations with the royal family: visits were often preceded by repairs or new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… belonging to the king; and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into … went unchallenged; 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most … and murage, 15 and by 1446 the bailiffs delivered royal writs within the town 16 and presumably, as later, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Cath. ed. A. W. Goodman (1927), pp. 18990; below. For royal control during vacancies, Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Humphrey de Millers, who resigned Witney in 1220, was a royal servant who later became master of St Cross hospital; … by a succession of Savoyards who, profiting from royal and papal favour, held the rectory from 1243 to 1318: … rector 15209 and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, was a royal chaplain and treasurer to Princess Mary. 92 John Higdon …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Edward IV., who, it is recorded, kept Christmas at his royal palace here, in 1480. Henry VII. repaired and enlarged …
A History of the County of Essex
… 42 Thirty loads of oaken planks were supplied to the navy in 1666 during the Dutch wars. 43 There is evidence of … Bay Co. 99 He and others also built many ships for the navy, especially during the Dutch wars in the later 17th …