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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Parish of Woolhope. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. The … in wall and carved with a Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John under a trefoiled and gabled head, 14th-century. … S.E. of the house, formerly enclosed a roughly rectangular island, but is now fragmentary. ConditionOf house, good. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Northampton, who in the same year sold it to (Sir) Thomas Smith. 15 The Queen died in 1548 and in 1556 Sir … Yarlington farm (319 a.), Woolston farm (231 a.), Middle farm (119 a.) and the Yarlington House estate (431 a.) … 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
… Yarnton Charities Charities Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a … the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1965 the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's transferred the advowson to the Charles … the vicar was not receiving most of his tithes. 61 Vaughan Thomas, vicar 1803-58, so vigorously pursued his rights that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was meadowland. Some meadows were evidently arable in the Middle Ages; they were still known by names such as Corn … a single day on successive Mondays following the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) in the order Oxey, West … and 60 a. 68 The gradation was apparent in 1662, when Sir Thomas Spencer was assessed on 22 hearths, three men on 5 or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rent charge on Windmill field of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments … £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
… and other artefacts from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages, suggests prolonged occupation which may have … walled around. 95 In the 19th century the vicar, Vaughan Thomas, claimed that Yarnton had once comprised 'a group of … 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 … view of frankpledge at Yarnton attended by tenants from St. Valery manors in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, … been confident of the support of Yarnton's vicar, Vaughan Thomas, an influential figure on the local bench. 41 In 1834 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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 Bernard's son Thomas (d. 1219). Thomas's daughter and heir Annora married …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dissenters also met at Southby's Farm, then occupied by Thomas Johnson. There were said in 1854 to be 20 dissenters … Circuit c 8, a and d. Ibid. tithe award and map; V. Thomas, 'Sanitary Survey of Yarnton' (1853), 3. O.R.O., MS. … c 646, f. 196; c 647, f. 70. Ibid. tithe award and map; Thomas, 'Sanitary Survey', 4, 21; Exeter Coll. Mun., N.III.6, …