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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… NW, d SP 85 NE) The roughly rectangular parish, covering about 1460 hectares, lies against the county boundary with … appear to be the S. halves of two concentric enclosures about 110 m. and 40 m. in diam. A ditched trackway, 10 m. 15 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (13). Cottage, 60 yards E. of (12). (14). Monksbury Court, about 1 m. N.E. of the church, is of 18th or 19th-century …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1333. 7 George III is said to have passed through on his way to Weymouth and remarked upon the new Yarlington … fee probably passed to Robert's son William who forfeited his estates in 1106. 11 By 1166 it was held by Drew the … c. 50 a. with rye, beans, peas, and vetches, a total of about half the entire arable on the manor. The seed amounted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… meat and bread on Christmas Day and on the anniversary of his death, £4 in bread and cakes to poor adults, and £1 in … if the village school should be discontinued the part of his bequest relating to it should be given instead to the … and efficient administration with the imposition of his own values: only Yarnton poor were to be eligible for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Swete, owner of a quarter of the manor and advowson, gave his share of the advowson, comprising the right to every … refenestrated and the west window of the nave inserted about the same time that the chapel and tower were built. Sir … s.vv. John Tesh, Rob. Coates, Vaughan Thomas. 'Revd. Mr. Cooke' was tutor at Kirtlington in 1757: J. Townsend, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1 herdsman, 1 keeper of the oxen, and 1 dairyman and his assistant. 56 Under Rewley abbey the amount of demesne … 'thrive here mightily', was grown in the manor park by a Mr. Ward of Northamptonshire, probably William Ward of Little … O.R.O.; R. H. Gretton, 'Hist. Notes on Yarnton Lot-Meadow Customs', Econ. Jnl. xx. 38 sqq.; xxii. 53 sqq.; The Field, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… city water supply in 1934. Electricity became available about the same time. 75 Early settlements of the type common … in buying up cottages that later transpired to have been his already. 9 The predominant building material was … Local inf. P.R.O., SP 12/198/42. Ref. kindly supplied by Mr. J. Walter, Univ. of Essex. Wood's Life, ii (O.H.S. xxi), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at the … of the cost by ordering that every farmer should take his 'proper proportion' of labourers out of work, 'being one …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ealdorman Aethelmaer granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at … 277 that 'a great part' of the house was 'pulled down about 16 years ago' is misread as an entry for 1678 in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a Roman Catholic in 1660, although not acknowledging his conversion until 1686. 39 In 1706 one Roman Catholic, …