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A History of the County of Oxford
… 100, of which 20 was for the school and the rest for the poor and for disabled soldiers. 28 A confirmation of the … government, particularly as guardians of the Woodstock poor law union. 51 Such men argued that the corporation was … in 1958 in Park Street. 42 Parish Government and Poor Relief. Woodstock chapelry, which was coextensive with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… play of his imminent arrest for debt, and John Tasker, 'poor and drunk'. 71 Costs grew with the size of the … paving the streets, 73 and in 1731 the duchess clothed 80 poor townspeople. 74 Despite all efforts the Marlborough …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ch. Mag. (1863), 329; above, Local Govt., Par. Govt. and Poor Relief; below, Educ. Oxf. Chron. 31 May 1851; 25 Apr., 8 Aug. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of worship for Burghers and Presbyterians; also a Scottish Relief church, and a Roman Catholic chapel. The Glendale …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made … c. 1818 and replaced by a range of five dwellings for five poor widows, 20 which became disused in the later 19th … of the graveyard. 22 A sum of 4 d. was distributed for the relief of the poor c. 1547 from land left for obits. 23 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Clayton established a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of … the vestry resolved to appoint a mistress to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the Clayton charity of 40 s. a year was paid … Char. 113. Church School Inquiry, 1846-7, 18-19. Educ. of Poor Digest, 317. G.D.R. vol. 383, no. cxxxvii. Educ. Enquiry …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… century to £137 in 1771-2. Six persons regularly received relief that year, but later, when expenditure dropped … number doubled. 84 In the early 19th century the cost of poor-relief rose from £249 in 1803 85 to between £300 and … was built. 88 About 1836 Woolaston became part of Chepstow Poor Law Union, 89 but for other local government purposes it …
A History of the County of Somerset
… between 1838 and the 1930s; most conspicuous is the poor quality stone terrace north-west of the church, formerly … 31 There were two churchwardens and two overseers of the poor but no accounts survive earlier than the 19th century. … Joan Jeanes (d. 1767) gave £50 for the poor not receiving relief. In 1771 the capital was invested in the Bridgwater …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 133840, p. 177. The land was only worth 6 s. 8 d., being poor heathland: Cal. Inq. Misc. ii, 530. Curia Regis R. 176, …