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A History of the County of Oxford
… assistants in 1871 at no. 18 Market Place, manufactured a patent earth closet, of which, allegedly, over 20,000 were in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… had formed a guild with a common hall and a hierarchy of offices: in 1338 the principal officer, by then called mayor, … competition not only for the mayoralty but for minor offices. 49 By the 1860s 50 prominent inhabitants, mostly … as tithingman, churchwarden, and constable, but those offices could be compounded for and a fine of 1 exonerated a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the first of several eminent lawyers to combine the two offices. 2 Sir Thomas Spencer of Yarnton, M.P. from 1604, 3 … were resumed elections to the mayoralty and even minor offices were sometimes contested on party lines, with …