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The Environs of London
… Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies … "Richard Warner, aged 62 38, buried April 20, 1775." This gentleman was son of John Warner, Esq. a banker, who is … proposals. In his youth he had been remarkably fond of dancing; and it was not without some reluctance, (when he …
A History of the County of Essex
… school at Woodford, apparently Anglican, where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if … of the school were some 130, of which 60 was paid to the master and 30 to the mistress. There was a clothing club …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish of 2,146 a., 1 lying about 8 miles north-east of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and … of Harts and Marshalls had stood, Sir Humphrey Handforth, Master of the Wardrobe to James I, built a mansion called …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part … in Woodford, and granted it to Sir Anthony Browne, master of the horse, and his (second) wife, Elizabeth. None … 1735 and 1758 Thomas and Mary North built a modest new gentleman's house, 122 about half a mile to the south-west of …
A History of the County of Essex
… evidently in existence by 1177 when it was confirmed among the possessions of the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 In 1191 the Pope assigned … and resigned Woodford, where he was succeeded by William Master (166184). 28 Master was another pluralist, as was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They … Bear, Falcon, and Dove. 1 Balliol's lessees, John Smith, gentleman (1658- 93), Benjamin Johnson, mercer (1693-1715), … large room on the first floor retains what may have been a dancing floor, over 3 ft. deep and once packed with chaff; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, … monastic estates: 96 in 1537, when described as a 'little gentleman' of Oxfordshire, he was living at Yarnton, 97 and … reputation for gloves was forgotten, by a Woodstock glove master who likened their cut and style to gloves still made …
A History of the County of Oxford
… free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a popular … place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen educationist frustrated in his … left £ 300 to provide and support a grammar school and a master, who was to be a good preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a … to have been purged as royalists, but Benjamin Merrick, gentleman, resident at the house later Woodstock House, was … from the park were set up before houses and there was dancing and feasting. 25 In 1610 the corporation paid for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … to by the mayor as 'my clerk' in 1499. 12 Thomas Nowers, gentleman, who signed entries in the town's ledger in the … boast that at his inn (the Bull) there would be piping and dancing 'at 1 o'clock hereafter'. 21 In the early 17th …