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A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … Crown in 1539. 13 In 1541 YARLINGTON was granted to Queen Catherine Howard (d. 1542) and in 1544 to Queen Catherine … 1782-97, was also a chaplain to the king and a canon of St. Paul's. 87 Communion was celebrated four times a year in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, and … protests the Charity Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the first charge on the bequest. 73 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vicarage until the Dissolution. 47 In 1466 the abbey's nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by … 1965 the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could not … a single day on successive Mondays following the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) in the order Oxey, West mead, Pixey. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… latter was supported in 1797 by a biannual payment of 18 s. from the overseers and by voluntary subscriptions. The … in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on clothes for the … £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Yarnton until 1932. 47 That change increased Yarnton's area from 1,644 a. to 1,762 a. (713 ha.). 48 An area known … part of the south-east corner of Yarnton west of King's bridge. A house stood c. 1200 on the Yarnton side of the … practice of holding fairs on the village feast (24 August, St. Bartholomew's day), 53 and much earlier he had put an end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … view of frankpledge at Yarnton attended by tenants from St. Valery manors in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was … with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of the five demesne … between William's sisters Jane, Constance, Elizabeth, and Catherine. 76 Three shares were bought in 1695 by Sir Robert …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarpole 81 YARPOLE (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. … principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the parish. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… antiquity, was originally designated as the parish of St. Mary; its present name was acquired from the removal of … is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … of Scottish minstrelsy. Among the lakes are the loch of St. Mary and the loch of The Lowes. The former, seven miles …