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A History of the County of Oxford
… borough status. 1 By the early 14th century some parts of its economy were apparently contracting, notably the local … and certainly an assertion that it ceased to be 'a centre of trade' and that the borough 'hardly deserves its name' 2 … a national or international scale. More general resurgence of the town's population and economy followed, though …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial … ORO, Swan X/2. Below. Report Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners (Parl. Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), p. 549; … Young, Oxon. Agric. 325. Rep. Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners, pp. 5479; cf. Plummer, Witney Blanket Ind. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… relatively limited unemployment even during the depression of the 1930s. 1 A Witney chamber of trade and commerce, founded by local shopkeepers and store … shops were opened on the site, exported to over 200 countries. The West London Tool Company, based at No. 58 High …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, … their authority; after intervention by the Charity Commissioners the trustees compromised, encouraging but not … Batt (d. 1926). The property was conveyed to the Church Commissioners, from whom the county council took a long …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was … suggested in the first published report of the Poor Law Commissioners. A two-storeyed entrance block contained a … for segregation of men and women as stipulated by the Commissioners. 233 In 1861 a new chapel, designed in a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … be involved in charity administration. In 1613 the charity commissioners ruled that the bailiffs should account at the … poor 'too great to sustain', 189 and in 1701 the charity commissioners complained that some charitable income was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The estate was … estate given by Abingdon abbey to Brihthelm, bishop of Wells. 1 The Crown recovered the Witney estate before … the 16th century, were retained by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners with Church Leys, and were sold to other …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong recusant tradition in the town either then or … Oxfordshire gentry met at Witney to coordinate suppression of the Prayer Book rebellion, which had spread to Oxfordshire …