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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1:10000 a SP 74 NW, b SP 74 NE, c SP 74 SW, d SP 74 SE) The long, narrow parish, once part of Potterspury, stretches from the R. Tove on the E. boundary to a little beyond Watling … above OD. The origins of the site are obscure but in 1327 Thomas de Ferrers was granted a licence to crenellate his …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose name is … of Northampton, who in the same year sold it to (Sir) Thomas Smith. 15 The Queen died in 1548 and in 1556 Sir Thomas sold the manor to William Rosewell and his son …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Charities Charities Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a … the vicar was not receiving most of his tithes. 61 Vaughan Thomas, vicar 1803-58, so vigorously pursued his rights that … reported the house unsuitable, 69 and in 1847 Vaughan Thomas, at the behest of the bishop, added a two-storeyed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, … and 60 a. 68 The gradation was apparent in 1662, when Sir Thomas Spencer was assessed on 22 hearths, three men on 5 or … eight on 3 or 4, and thirteen on 1 or 2 hearths. 69 Sir Thomas's death in 1685 ended direct management of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that … rent charge on Windmill field of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments …
A History of the County of Oxford
… YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the … walled around. 95 In the 19th century the vicar, Vaughan Thomas, claimed that Yarnton had once comprised 'a group of … of Begbroke Hill, was probably built soon after 1829 by Thomas Robinson, nephew of William Fletcher, mentioned below, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. … been confident of the support of Yarnton's vicar, Vaughan Thomas, an influential figure on the local bench. 41 In 1834 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … (d. c. 1162), his son Bernard (d. 1191), and Bernard's son Thomas (d. 1219). Thomas's daughter and heir Annora married Robert, count of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a prominent … dissenters also met at Southby's Farm, then occupied by Thomas Johnson. There were said in 1854 to be 20 dissenters … Circuit c 8, a and d. Ibid. tithe award and map; V. Thomas, 'Sanitary Survey of Yarnton' (1853), 3. O.R.O., MS. …