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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 … for the distributions, which must be received at the church door; careful account was to be kept of the gifts and …
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 … aspect of church affairs'. 88 Thomas's successor was Peter Maurice, 1858-78, chaplain of All Souls College and a …
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, …
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 new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane was used as a schoolroom. 57 The children were … £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 … by a footpath running eastwards from Worton towards Church Lane or Mead Lane. 62 Pre-inclosure maps of Cassington … 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… Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of Yarnton, so called in 1279, … 21 an anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so …
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 … recover Yarnton, but although the abbey's ownership of the church was never challenged it could not regain the manor and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 37 The only self-confessed Catholic was Sir William's grandson William (d. 1683). 38 John Goad, vicar 1646-60, … from Oxford, applied for a licence for John Preedy's cottage in Yarnton to be used as a meeting house. 41 The … Oxford were attracting a sufficient following to affect church attendance. In the 1840s Primitive Methodists met in a …
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. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the 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 the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle 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 …