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A History of the County of Oxford
… gave £100 to be lent to 4 tradesmen for 5 years. 17 The loan charities, £320 in all, were regularly taken up and by … for loans suggests further losses, and thereafter the money seems to have been invested and the interest usually … only £272. 19 In 1873 the corporation decided to use the loan fund for educational purposes, which seems to have been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the later 16th century. 65 Margery Nurse (d. 1609) left money for four sermons, all of which seem to have been … 115. The surviving timber could be later 17th-century. No money was spent on the chancel roof 1608-50, and accts. for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… principal late 18th-century manufacturers were the Cross, Money, Eldridge, and Dewsnap families. 31 In 1788 Richard Cross, Knap Money, and Joseph Dewsnap were convicted for evading stamp … also had a retail glove shop near the park gate. 33 Knap Money (d. 1790) may have worked from no. 6 Oxford Street, 34 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's relict Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property in Oxford Street (now nos. … charge of 10 s. given in 1593 by Roger Norwood, 94 and a loan of £ 100 given to the corporation in 1588 by Dr. John … fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, who transferred the loan from the college on the understanding that fellows would …
A History of the County of Oxford
… expansion, and in 1635 Woodstock's assessment for ship money was only �20, compared with Chipping Norton's �30 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were owed to 21 townsmen, in 1616 a chamberlain provided a loan of 24 at the high rate of 10 per cent, and in 1639 an … accounts of large capital sums such as the corporation's loan charities; in the early 1720s, however, expenditure … the purchase of property in 1865, 96 and from the 1860s money was raised on mortgage. The chamberlains were in debt …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 70 negotiated for councillors' votes with offers of money and employment. He noted that the townsmen's poverty … and Lord Blandford would agree rather than try to 'screw money out of the transaction'. 12 Thus in 1832 and 1835 Lord … Baptist minister John Freer, the glove manufacturers H. K. Money and J. N. Godden, and the upholsterer John Parker. 28 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the difficulty of carrying out the donor's intention the money was apparently lent to anyone offering security and by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to withhold suit, 29 s. and 6 qr. of oats paid as cert money at the views, 14 s. for ward penny, 10 s. for … and wardsilver, 28 s. from suit fines, and 2 from cert money for 'foreign views', paid for the most part by the same …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the fortifications, and obtained from the citizens a loan of 3000 for the parliament, the Earl of Essex divided … strengthened the fortifications, and raised levies of money, which they transmitted for the king's use. These …