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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Fig. 212 Woodnewton Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the N. … entrance above which is a panel inscribed 'John Franey 1745', the date of the building. Franey was a stonemason. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation … gentleman (1658- 93), Benjamin Johnson, mercer (1693-1715), and Edward Ryves, town clerk, seem to have sublet the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was … by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … Holloway, F.R.S., rector 1736-9. 9 Sir Robert Cocks, 1715-36, described by Hearne as a blockhead, 10 preached …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed … marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … of Butt close in the mid 17th century was Cockpit yard; in 1715 a large enclosed cockpit was built at the west end of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is … 1705 ordering distraint of unfree traders was repeated in 1715 and 1726, when a test prosecution apparently failed. 15 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … education. 33 Alderman Benjamin Johnson, by will proved 1715, gave £50 to the corporation for the education of five …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … scavenger for the central streets was appointed from 1715. From 1737 a beadle took over the duties of scavenger …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of … in 1709 Francis, Lord Rialton, later earl of Godolphin, in 1715 William Diston, and in 1716 Cadogan. 62 In 1727-8 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of Somerset, 1 … (W.) from Wells; containing, with the tything of Yarley, and part of Wookey-Hole, 1187 inhabitants. The living is a … C. Loftus, Esq.; net income, 35. The church was rebuilt in 1745, a little westward of the ancient site. There is a place …