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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… having been the W. tenement on the S. side of the street. Sir Guy Wolston gained possession of 17 tenements which came … manor in the 16th century. Both manors were acquired by Sir Walter Mildmay in 1551, and passed thence to the Earls of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1662. 36 It was later owned by the lawyer and M.P. Sir Littleton Osbaldeston (d. 1692) and for much of the 18th … in 1669 the house was to be sold, and was later owned by Sir Littleton Osbaldeston (d. 1692), who let it to the town … the royal manor, from which it was held by Maud, relict of Sir Thomas Chaucer, at her death in 1437. 57 Sir Thomas (d. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… continued throughout the 19th century. 97 From 1615 Sir Thomas Spencer provided weekly doles of bread for 10 men, … 1622 confirmed that the doles should continue. 98 His son Sir William Spencer challenged the bequest but in 1641 … the mayor was distributing the weekly doles as given in Sir Thomas's lifetime, with additional gifts of 1 s. each to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Norwich, and Benjamin Holloway, F.R.S., rector 1736-9. 9 Sir Robert Cocks, 1715-36, described by Hearne as a … a Whitsun sermon. 70 From 1738 the trustees of the rector Sir Robert Cocks (d. 1735) provided 1 gn. a year for a sermon … Atkyns, recorder and M.P., added a treble and in 1666 Sir Thomas Spencer, high steward, a tenor. 32 Probably the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… west end of the eastern section of Rectory Lane. In 1713 Sir John Vanbrugh expressed a wish to improve the town to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… houses in the late 15th century, later selling them to Sir Thomas Danvers of Waterstock. 7 In 1553 John Crossley, a … new wool market; there may have been pressure, too, from Sir Henry Lee, steward of the manor and sheep farmer on a … his death had a malthouse and malt valued at 400, 43 and Sir Littleton Osbaldeston (d. 1692) who had a brewhouse at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was included in the Woodstock Exhibition Foundation. 40 Sir Robert Cocks (d. 1736), rector of Bladon, devoted £800 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1644 the king was hunting at Woodstock when he heard that Sir William Waller had crossed the Thames at Newbridge; … For fortifications, below, Blenheim, King's Hos. Jnl. of Sir S. Luke, i (O.R.S. xxix), 15, 45; Wood's Life and Times, … Dom. 1641-3, 402-3; Boro. Mun. 81, ff. 168v.-169v. Jnl. of Sir S. Luke, ii (O.R.S. xxxi), 109, 117-21, 129; iii (O.R.S. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… sold the fee farm to David Walter and others, and in 1702 Sir John Walter sold it to Montagu Bertie, earl of Abingdon, … 1602 in a dispute over wool buying with the Crown patentee Sir Edward Hoby 17 but otherwise seem to have been of little … to the fee farm he embarrassed both the corporation and Sir Henry Lee, steward of the manor, to whom the farm was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In the mid 16th century the seat was controlled by Sir Leonard Chamberlain (d. 1561), steward of the manor and … his successors as steward, Thomas Peniston and from 1573 Sir Henry Lee (d. 1611), continued to control the seat; both were related to Sir Francis Knollys (d. 1596), 97 and Woodstock was evidently …