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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Charities for the poor Charities for the Poor Municipal Charities. The corporation's first almshouses were successors to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of … 3 boys, and 3 girls, resident churchgoers who were to wear their new clothes on Christmas day. 11 The distribution of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 In 1445 the leading … with Bladon parishioners over Woodstock's responsibility for repairs to Bladon church and churchyard, 37 presumably … consent, the corporation paying 1 s. to the preachers for their dinners. At the first lecture the corporation …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 19th century several dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The … lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national reforms, however, provoked a comment … approval of the corporation, frequently took boarders in their own houses. The scholars contributing to Francis …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was at Woodstock Park, which he … the town's armour to the royalists and publishing a proclamation against the earl of Essex; the Speaker, who … Royalists then occupied Woodstock until June 1644: 2,000 soldiers were reported there in July 1643 when the king and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal … for the school and the rest for the poor and for disabled soldiers. 28 A confirmation of the borough's charters in … 38 The charter was effectively annulled by a royal proclamation in October 1688, and by November the former …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for meeting-house licences. Edward Wilsden was presented in … nonconformist was reported in 1676 Metcalfe was alleged to be continuing a conventicle in 1678. 56 In the 1680s many … in Oxford Street, registered in that year; mobs, including soldiers, broke up the meeting and stoned Hinton out of town …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… books at 12. 15. 10.: the great tithes have been commuted for 212, and the vicarial for 299. 5.; the glebe comprises 5 acres. At Henton is a second church, dedicated to Christ. In the side of the Mendip hills, about a mile and … three successive tiers, which, when they were filled with soldiers, presented a formidable resistance to any assailing …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around Woodstreet, to the river terraces along the … mason's rejected stone fragment with incised liningout for cusped window(?) head and spandrel. Loose in N. aisle, … and a paten, plate and flagon of 1840, each recording their donation 'to the new Protestant chapel at East Burton …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was recorded in the foundation grant by Walter de Clare to Tintern Abbey in 1131. 91 Following a dispute with … the abbot had failed to present. William held the rectory for life, but at the next vacancy a vicar was instituted; 95 … it was a small house of two bays, 19 which was in need of repair in 1739. 20 The rectory was rebuilt or remodelled in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… late 13th century, shortly before the manor was granted to Tintern Abbey, there was considerable demesne at … at harvest were worked; in addition, labour-services for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the … tenants held clearings called 'rydings' in addition to their arable land. 17 The abbey itself was paying a small …