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A History of the County of Oxford
… the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its original market, 66 but it remained a small community … (Herefs.). Although no early inns were mentioned, it may be significant that the site of one of the principal later … George Whitton, alderman and M.P., probably instigated the Bill and certainly paid for the new wool market; there may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national reforms, however, provoked a comment … in 1840 and, belatedly, of a National school in 1854 made up in part for continuing problems with the financially … and support a grammar school and a master, who was to be a good preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's relict Mary Dolman …
A History of the County of Oxford
… jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was at Woodstock … pool and the site of the horse fair, was deemed to be in Hensington, and the borough boundary divided the front … from Colchester damaged the church when they were locked up there. 93 Local royalists rejoiced in 1649 when …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Local government Local government BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the … farmed, and the town's contribution to that farm ceased to be of direct concern to the Crown or to its officers. The … 13. In the later 16th century the corporation promoted a bill to make Woodstock a staple town which failed in 1572 but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… representation Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to … have been moderates, and neither voted for the Exclusion Bill: Sir Littleton Osbaldeston of Chadlington, a lawyer … at inns owned by political opponents; 'examples' were to be made of hostile councillors, notably Brotherton and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformist was reported in 1676 Metcalfe was alleged to be continuing a conventicle in 1678. 56 In the 1680s many … registered in that year; mobs, including soldiers, broke up the meeting and stoned Hinton out of town as a Jacobin. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around Woodstreet, to the river terraces along the … Now in Dorchester Museum, altar frontal (Plate 31) made up from 15th and 16th-century vestments in eight strips, with … was supported on a broad arch of which the springing can be seen against the N. wall. The rest of the chapter-house …
A Dictionary of London
… Within (O. and M. 1677). "Beaumondis Inn" (q.v.) seems to have occupied the site in former times. Now covered by … Wharf east and Kennet Wharf west (O.S. 1880). It seems to be all called Kennet Wharf now (P.O. Directory). Workhouse … the name is derived from the plant, which readily springs up on waste land and may have grown over and about the City …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… late 13th century, shortly before the manor was granted to Tintern Abbey, there was considerable demesne at … of the Tintern Abbey estates to the Earl of Worcester, and up to the late 19th century most of the land belonged to the … was reduced to 30 a. by 1842, and later ceased to be a separate farm. Under the Marling family new holdings …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… EDUCATION. Margaret Clayton established a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a … the charity funds in 1683. 99 In 1781 the vestry resolved to appoint a mistress to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the … 11 Its income was low in 1864 and the rector had to make up the deficiency, 12 which may have been the cause of the …