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A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while … to be allowed to fence it and render it extra-forestal; in exchange Epping and Nazeing were then to be thrown back into …
A History of the County of Essex
… Introduction WOODFORD Woodford was an ancient parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree … from Woodford post office in 1870. 115 A telephone exchange was opened by the National Telephone Co. in 1904. …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part of the parish, is first mentioned in the charter of doubtful … 20 In 1547 the Crown recovered the manor from Lyon, 21 in exchange for other land, mostly in Berkshire but including …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, and in 1086 of William de Braose by William son of Rannulf, 35 who also … Marshal of Wick granted Wick manor to Robert Aguillon in exchange for a rent charge from Perching manor in Fulking, 99 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census returns of 1841-81. 51 The descent of many sites may therefore be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts of smith, ironmonger, and plumber, the textile crafts of …
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 … supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his … had enfeoffed them with land for their vill acquired by exchange from the Templars' fee in Hensington (in Bladon …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … Even so extraordinary expenses, such as for parliamentary bills and establishing the wool market in the 1570s and the … 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
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of … £ 1,325 given by the Marlboroughs to settle freemen's bills to pass through his accounts as if government funds, so … Cary corresp. is in P.R.O., C 104/109. P.R.O., C 104/109, bills of 1680; Boro. Mun. 76/2, Sept. 1680. Hist. Parl., …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made from the time of the foundation of Tintern Abbey. 17 No dole was made after 1546 when John …