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A History of the County of Oxford
… and in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town clerk's use. 78 The corporation provided an alternative … to assign the baking of charity bread for the year to the town's bakers in alphabetical rotation. 96 In a … to maintain the charity. 3 Edmund Hiorne (d. 1629), the town clerk's father, left £5 to the poor in the almshouse, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a chapel after the 17th century. From an early date the town was an ecclesiastical centre: Woodstock rural deanery … independence and was unusually closely controlled by the town corporation. It had its own burial ground by the 13th … in Hensington and medieval hospitals in or near the town, 70 and by the later 15th century Woodstock chapel …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its original … 68 requiring the assumption that ovens recorded in the town in 1279 were pottery kilns. Surnames derived from places … s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 Woodstock's assessment of c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reforms, however, provoked a comment in 1838 that the town was almost uniquely lacking in educational provision for … that of curate of Woodstock. 6 Many were prominent in the town's life, and a few were distinguished: Simon Jeames … to have been a lawyer serving regularly as attorney in the town's courts; 7 Thomas Widdowes (1646-53) wrote a grammar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and after his association with Rosamund and indeed the town may have post-dated her death c. 1176; its foundation … the royal palace, was said to have been vacant when the town was founded. Roman coins were found near the church in … underlying rock is Oolitic limestone, 12 and many of the town's older houses retain deep, dry cellars. Water was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … portmoot, frequently recorded in the 13th century. 77 The town was taxed as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The … as custos answered directly in the Exchequer for the town's rents. 82 Perhaps from 1236, when Exchequer procedures …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the east side of Blenheim Park. 1 The borough and market town, called formally New Woodstock until the 19th century, … until 1974 when, as a successor parish, it retained town status and the privilege of appointing a mayor and other …
A History of the County of Oxford
… his nominees. Tanfield maintained close ties with the town as its recorder, the first of several eminent lawyers to … from 1609, was re-elected in 1614 'notwith-standing the town were hardly pressed for another' by the steward of … 26 and the lawyer John Cary of Wilcote, who moved into the town in 1675 and became a councillor and magistrate. 27 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rector reported that there were no meeting houses in the town and hardly any dissenters besides one Quaker family: … soldiers, broke up the meeting and stoned Hinton out of town as a Jacobin. Hinton tried again in 1819 and was later … both schools were said to recruit largely from outside the town, however, and no reference has been found to a separate …