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A History of the County of Oxford
… alternative house with a large close in Hollow Way (later Oxford Street), rebuilding it in 1612 and again in 1724. 79 … use of the poor. 85 The buildings survive as nos. 76-8 Oxford Street. 86 William Cornwell, alderman, by will proved … not a clerical error, implies a temporary change of plan. 37 When the almshouses near Hensington Gate were completed in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for repairs to Bladon church and churchyard, 37 presumably the lost 'composition' between Woodstock and … rector, Edward Evans, although he was probably the noted Oxford university preacher of that name. 86 On some days … Dr. John Prideaux, rector 1625-41, although resident in Oxford where he was regius professor of divinity, 88 preached …
A History of the County of Oxford
… probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river crossing. 90 The … houses on Park Street, High Street, Market Street, and Oxford Street as far north as the point where it turns west. … High Street and plots which stretched south to the green; 37 Corn Market or Cornmarket Street, sometimes called …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at Green, Richard Marden, and the hospital of St. John, Oxford, owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The … interests in London, Bristol, Gloucester, Hereford, Oxford, and Aylesbury, and he endowed a chantry at Woodstock … Joseph Harris (d. 1635), mercer and alderman, left c. 125. 37 John Glover (d. 1643), baker and innkeeper of the Crown, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property in Oxford Street (now nos. 8-12), 89 and the school probably … partly for the use of the school, 90 took over the Oxford Street houses and a rent charge of £8 a year from … on 10 gn. was assigned from freemen's admission fees. 37 For a time in the 1830s and 1840s the Johnson charity …
A History of the County of Oxford
… coins were found near the church in 1755 and an urn near Oxford Street in 1810. 11 The underlying rock is Oolitic … probably altered in the 13th century when the east side of Oxford Street was laid out. 18 In the 1580s there was a … population in the 1960s and in 1981 had 1,106 inhabitants. 37 Woodstock straddles the Oxford-Stratford road, which was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 32, included the fair, two mills, and a detached meadow in Oxford which had long been accounted for by Woodstock's … as quittance from toll, and granted an additional fair. 37 The nominated council seems to have excluded two aldermen … Street, and Walker, the duke's agent and town clerk of Oxford, lived at Hensington House. In the 16th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Overview WOODSTOCK lies 8 miles (12 km.) north-west of Oxford on the river Glyme close to the east side of Blenheim …
A History of the County of Oxford
… down. Lovelace temporarily withdrew his horse races to Oxford and by 1681 his influence, despite entertaining 'the … Littleton, a moderate court Whig and Speaker 1698-1700. 37 Both Lovelace and Thomas Wharton, Lord Wharton, who took … since Dawkins threatened to inconvenience the earl at Oxford. 47 Later in 1734 the duchess contrived to avoid a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… no dissenters were reported. In 1794 James Hinton, the Oxford Baptist, held a meeting in Thomas Boulton's house opposite the Marlborough Arms in Oxford Street, registered in that year; mobs, including … no longer afford one; then and later New Road chapel, Oxford, provided preachers. 65 There was a resident minister …