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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the site was later found inconvenient and in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town … in Hollow Way (later Oxford Street), rebuilding it in 1612 and again in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … was awarded for all tithes not extinguished by the Bladon inclosure award of 1766, the only titheable land within the … effort of the rector of Stonesfield kept the church open; in 1871 St. John was again justifying his refusal to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … was laid out not long before 1279 on one of Hensington's open-field furlongs, leaving the easternmost acre vacant as a … The typical penthouse was a roofed, lean-to structure with open sides: one built in 1650 at no. 18 Market Place may be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is … Other structures associated with the market were the open ground floors of the medieval guild hall and the 18th … the National Westminster Bank, and the sheep market to the open space in front of the town hall. Later the yard was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a … for a National school, observed in 1815 that 'a religious and useful education is not neglected' and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town … at the south-east corner of the borough: part of the open space at the east end of Rectory Lane, once Townsend …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … over 11 and extra officers' fees after attempting to open a shop in the town while not free. 83 In the later 17th … of a more suitable, isolated, pest house in Hensington fields. 91 The reciprocal leases were renewed until 1881, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The … provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, implying that the franchise, as in mayoral …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for meeting-house licences. … was presented in 1675 for holding meetings on Sundays, and although only one nonconformist was reported in 1676 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxfordshire. 50 In 1625 three women recusants were fined, and one or two recusants were reported from time to time … 52 when Woodstock formed part of the parish of St. Gregory and St. Augustine, Oxford, there were c. 60 Roman Catholics; … some attended the church of the Servite order at Begbroke, and from 1931 a chapel was opened in an outbuilding at Haddon …