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A History of the County of Sussex
… was held at Woodmancote Place, and in 1800 and 1803 at the Royal Oak inn in Shermanbury. A reeve was mentioned in 1680 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of c. 1874 on Oxford Street included on the north the Royal Assembly Rooms, for long one of the town's principal … d. rent. 56 Later it seems to have become attached to the royal manor, from which it was held by Maud, relict of Sir … Chaucer, at her death in 1437. 57 Sir Thomas (d. 1434), royal servant and Speaker of the Commons, was farmer of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock chapel. Besides chapels and chantries in the royal manor house 69 there were chapels in Hensington and … John, apparently not in the manor house, was repaired at royal expense in 1234-5; 71 it may have been the town's … present; the series was given before the king in the royal chapel in the park. Probably at Laud's behest lectures …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps … not have pre-dated the town: passage from the gate to the royal palace remained difficult, requiring long causeways. 92 … by the duke and sold to members of the Oxford Co-operative Society under a joint scheme. 37 Pullman's glove factory was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted … valued at much less. A few were associated with the royal park. Thomas Croft (d. 1488), a royal servant who … (d. 1841), mayor and surgeon, was a fellow of the Linnaean Society and his son George was a medical practitioner in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… plateau on the edge of the Glyme valley opposite the royal palace, was said to have been vacant when the town was … Liberals and Methodists were prominent in the local agricultural trade union movement, 16 and in the 1890s a … until 1809. 70 The Woodstock Florists' and Horticultural Society, founded in 1825, held annual shows recorded until …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for … farmers may have been townsmen. 80 Then for many years the royal manor was held by successive sheriffs of Oxfordshire, … was granted to Queen Isabella in 1313. 88 Thereafter the royal manor was farmed, and the town's contribution to that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (place in the woods) 3 may have applied first to a royal hunting lodge established on the edge of Wychwood … Palace, was occupied until the early 18th century by a royal residence, called the king's houses or Woodstock Manor. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… freemen. In the 16th and 17th centuries stewards of the royal manor and park strongly influenced the borough's … Montgomery. 5 Whitelocke, whose contentious views on the royal prerogative may have provoked Herbert's opposition, was … and tradesmen of the Liberals' association with the agricultural labourers' union and Joseph Arch. 32 Lord …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the morning and 130 in the evening. 72 Soon afterwards the society was split by the secession of Wesleyan Reformers; … and he later became mayor; he and Godden promoted the agricultural labourers' union. 80 The Banburys were …