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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. … 95 Thereafter there was no licensed house until the Stag's Head opened in the 1850s in a cottage on the village green. … 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 … William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, 1579-1618, married a member of the Minn family …
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 allotment was made by drawing, at the head of each strip, one of the balls; when a whole shot had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Education Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar … latter was supported in 1797 by a biannual payment of 18 s. from the overseers and by voluntary subscriptions. 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… Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … again towards the end of the French wars. Expenditure per head of population was higher in Yarnton than elsewhere, even …
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 manors. It was held successively by Reynold of St. Valery (d. c. 1162), his son Bernard (d. 1191), and …
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 … principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the parish. … of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a two-centred head with a moulded label; the S. doorway, of the same date, …
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 … These lands were granted by William the Lion to Hugh de Gifford, son of an English gentleman of that name, …