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A History of the County of Oxford
… and that the duke frustrated his plans to establish a National school and improve church seating. The duke …
A History of the County of Oxford
… other across Market Place, the Bull on the site of the National Westminster bank (no. 16) and probably several plots …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 15 s. and 2 gn. a week. 96 Competition from cheaper Birmingham and Wolverhampton wares was intense by the 1780s, … taken over by Barclays in 1919. 78 About the same time the National Provincial (later National Westminster) bank opened a branch at no. 16 Market Place. 79 At the Great Exhibition of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… although a keen educationist frustrated in his plans for a National school, observed in 1815 that 'a religious and … means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national reforms, however, provoked a comment in 1838 that … opening of an infants' school in 1840 and, belatedly, of a National school in 1854 made up in part for continuing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… had enfeoffed them with land for their vill acquired by exchange from the Templars' fee in Hensington (in Bladon … century the building of Blenheim Palace introduced a large labour force and the town's subsequent prosperity enabled it … baptisms rose to 48 a year, probably in part reflecting national population trends. 36 In 1801 there were 1,322 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… addresses expressed conventional reactions to royal and national events, but in 1850 the council was particularly … was spent on materials to employ the workhouse poor, whose labour yielded the substantial sum of 56. 66 A contract of … 1765, 90 when it was let to the duke of Marlborough in exchange for the lease of a more suitable, isolated, pest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… MS. 19615, ff. 179-80; D. Green, Blenheim Palace, 135. Birmingham and Midland Inst. Trans. xii. 6. B.L. Add. MS. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… attached. Here are places of worship for Wesleyans; and a national school. Woolbeding WOOLBEDING, a parish, in the … by invalids, for whose use many goats were kept. Here is a branch of the North of England bank; a public subscription …