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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Hastings who died possessed of it in 1436, held for a money rent from Reynold Grey. 36 After Richard's death the … when he died in the following year he left large sums of money to his family. 72 In 1545 and 1572 Henry Chamberlain …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… General Johnson. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1813. The church is a handsome cruciform … Patrington. The tithes were commuted for land and annual money payments in 1793. The chapel, dedicated to St. … tithes of the township were commuted for land and annual money payments in 1802. The church, a small edifice, consists …
A History of the County of Oxford
… founder of a school for sons of journeyman weavers, 5 left money to build an almshouse for six widows to be chosen by … in orders, while the clothier Leonard Yate (d. 1554) left money to be distributed over twenty years. 10 From the 1590s … birthplace or local market town. Most endowments comprised money for investment, varying from a widow's 2 given in 1627 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 105 The Company supported members in other ways, lending money at interest, offering rewards for apprehension of … in 1720 sold boards and trees worth 110 and who was owed money in London, 208 while a carpenter in 1784 was also an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… market clearly continued. In 1560 a wealthy clothier left money for a new market house, eventually built about 1606, 22 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and later settled at Caswell, leaving at his death in 1485 money bequests of over 700 and lands in Witney, Hailey, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 1970s, to Hillrise nearby. By the 1850s it dealt with money orders, and in the early 1870s it became a telegraph … almshouses east of the church, erected about 1724 with money from a charitable bequest, the Blanket Hall on High … district council accused opponents of wasting ratepayers' money and of stifling the town's development. 303 Welch Way, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which suggests that people may have been wary of spending money on domestic comforts when the capital demands of their … attract 'some concourse of people that might spend their money in the town', which on such occasions presumably … leading clothier Walter Jones (d. 1560), typically, left money towards a new market house, for repair of the school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… townships the borough owed 'recognition' or 'knowledge' money at each new bishop's installation. 11 Nevertheless, … the burgesses were exempt from payment of toll, passage-money, and murage, 15 and by 1446 the bailiffs delivered … serjeant attended the court, collected fines and sometimes money for poor relief, and issued distraints, though his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… repair of the church, a weekly distribution of bread and money among the poor, and a Sunday school. Wix, or Weeks (St. … rectory of Exhall: the tithes were commuted for land and money payments in 1767. Wixoe WIXOE, a parish, in the union … is distributed with the produce of some other bequests, in money, coal, and clothing. The poor-law union of Wokingham …