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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 13; net income, 70; patron and appropriator, the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Woodhurst 96. WOODHURST (D.d.). (O.S. 6 in. XIX N.W.). Woodhurst is a parish and village 3 m. N. … 12th century. In the middle of the following century the S. arcade was built and a S. aisle added. The South Aisle was … turned balusters, moulded and panelled strings and moulded hand-rails carried over the square newels. There are some …
A History of the County of Sussex
… manor or at Wick and Sands manors together were worth £3 8 s. in 1318. 90 Nine copyholds of Wickensands manor were … parish was Woodmancote Place farm, of 402 a., which was in hand; also in hand were Morley farm of 134 a. and Nutknowle … C 134/62, no. 2. B.L. Add. MS. 57311, ff. 2v., 3v.-4. E.S.R.O., SAS/I 183 (TS. cat.). K.A.O., U 269/E 341, f. 42v. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the … 8-12 Oxford Street Bought in 1587 with Richard Cornwell's bequest for the grammar school, were transferred to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and burial ground were reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 … in an agreement with Bladon parishioners over Woodstock's responsibility for repairs to Bladon church and churchyard, … usually called the Bladon composition, rising from 3 s. to 3 s. 4 d. a year; 39 a payment to Bladon in 1555 was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market … 95 From the 1930s Miss J. M. Shelmerdine worked as a hand printer and later founded at no. 11 Park Street the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… master, who was to be a good preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's relict Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property … to the trustees in 1598 in final settlement of Cornwell's gift. 91 A sum of £50 given earlier by the Dolmans directly … out at interest for the master's benefit until taken in hand in 1640. 92 Thomas Fletcher (d. 1617), cousin of Richard …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with … of trade to the vicinity of the court, and Henry's motives probably included a desire for rents and tolls as … Park 6 and was perhaps founded only shortly before Henry's death in 1189, for in 1194 its rents apparently yielded …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … been dissension in the borough, for a letter under the privy seal, probably of the 1490s, banned liveries and … of councillors: future nominations were to be open to any councillor and a list presented to the freemen for final …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 88 but in 1553 the borough again provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, … a lawyer sometimes resident in Woodstock and a councillor since 1662, later adhered to the court party, and … of Wilcote, who moved into the town in 1675 and became a councillor and magistrate. 27 The earl was an ally of Sir …