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A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Pleas and perquisites at the Woodmancote manor court were worth 3 s. 4 d. a year in … held in the period 1800-50. Business was conducted out of court from the mid 18th century, and the last court was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, and in 1086 … piers. A barn to the north-west has a late medieval crown-post roof. There was a park c. 1875 and later, with two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … Croft's chantry in Woodstock church which were sold by the Crown in 1549. 98 John Meades (d. 1587) acquired the George …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th … Meux £20 a year. 7 Samuel Tilly, rector 1704-12, the last Crown presentee, was the earl of Abingdon's chaplain. 8 His …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a … medieval inns were probably the George, the Bull, and the Crown. The George, later the Marlborough Arms, on Oxford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, … its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … trade with innkeeping, notably John Norris who held the Crown in Market Place, while William Cornwell was also a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a … Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.), ii. 157; Cur. Reg. R. i. 319; Pleas before King, 1198-1202 (Selden Soc. lxvii), pp. 63-4, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … plead and be impleaded. It was to have cognizance of most pleas, including those such as novel disseisin instituted by …
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 Park. 1 … park, Woodstock Park, renamed Blenheim when granted by the Crown in 1705 to John Churchill, duke of Marlborough. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 … to agents, notably Samuel Travers, surveyor-general of Crown Lands, and William Diston, a flamboyant Chadlington …