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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 … disrepair because the original terms of the endowment had not been complied with. Despite local protests the Charity …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1644 Richard Brainthwaite, grandfather of the then lord, Sir William Spencer, presented. Oxford University presented … the right to every fourth presentation, to his friend George Clarke (d. 1736), fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. … the income was only c. £40, largely because the vicar was not receiving most of his tithes. 61 Vaughan Thomas, vicar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, … northeast, and the Marshes in the south-east. 24 In 1596 Sir William Spencer was one of the local landlords whose … concern may have slowed the process, but it could not reverse it; in 1613 a farm of 2 yardlands still lay only …
A History of the County of Oxford
… A rent charge on Windmill field of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on … weekdays. Pupils, who stayed at school from the ages of 4 to 10, paid ½ d. a week, the vicar and the parish each paid …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 43 The route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at Blenheim and 'early maps' belonging to Sir Henry Dashwood were consulted without success. 45 The … were disinclined to invest in Yarnton after 1839, when Sir George Dashwood, 'to prevent strangers coming in', spent …
A History of the County of Oxford
… people, 'half the labouring poor' in Yarnton, were sold to Sir George Dashwood. 33 Casual relief was given in money and … in the granting of allowances, Yarnton vestry seems not to have hesitated to refer cases to them in the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… who eventually returned the abbey's other estates but not, apparently, Yarnton. In 1086 Eynsham's estates were held … dissolved in 1536, and in 1538 Henry VIII sold Yarnton to George Owen (d. 1558), his physician. 70 Richard Andrews, who … by his brother-in-law John Chamberlain, third son of Sir Leonard Chamberlain of Shirburn. 73 John sold it in 1574 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Perrott, member of a prominent Yarnton family, refused to conform, but her correction was left to her husband. 35 … married into Roman Catholic families, 36 and in 1646 Sir William Spencer (d. 1657) was allegedly recusant. 37 The … supposed to have become a Roman Catholic in 1660, although not acknowledging his conversion until 1686. 39 In 1706 one …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … in the reign of Bruce was recovered from the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, … parts of this extensive parish, some children who are not within the reach of instruction. A branch of the Selkirk …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… chapelry of Nassington, and served by a curate. Yarwell is not named in Domesday Book but was probably included in … in 1869. By the late 15th century the manor had passed to Sir Guy Wolston, and from him it passed to the Earls of … 4th modern. Brass: set in floor slab (7), small plate to George Arney, 1711, with quarterly shield of arms for Arney …