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A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Education EDUCATION Robert Veysey of Chimney, by will proved 1635, left £200 to endow a free … 30 Nothing had been done by 1650 when John Palmer, one of the trustees, left a further £100 providing that Veysey's … English, and arithmetic, and pupils were entered for public schools; the master was then a layman. 49 Funding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Introduction BAMPTON AND WEALD THE townships of Bampton and Weald, together c. 4,034 a., 30 adjoined the … to the market place, and by 1971 to the former Wheatsheaf public house on Bridge Street. 76 It remained open in 1994. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… MANOR COURTS. From 1248 William de Valence, as lord of the manor and hundred of Bampton, claimed return of writs, … scour ditches, disputes over common rights, and fouling of public ways, 37 and in 1498 and 1503 Stafford's inhabitants …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Hundred BAMPTON HUNDRED UNTIL 1844 Bampton hundred, on the west side of the county, covered c. 48,500 a., divided among 16 ancient … in 1841 was 15,628. 1 The hundred formed a compact block of land, bounded on part of the north and much of the east by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury Buildings Buildings. The castle, manor-house, vicarages, gaol, and other public … are described elsewhere in this volume. The Hospital of St. John the Baptist, founded early in the 13th century, 1 … of the two. There is too great a variety in the application of such features for it to be likely that all the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury Charities Charities for the Poor. By will dated 1443 John Forest, Prebendary of Banbury (d. 1446), bequeathed 66 13 s. 4 d. for 20 years … arrears. The trustees were ordered to ensure the regular application of the charity in future. There were few …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Churches Churches. Banbury church probably originated in the Anglo-Saxon period as the mother church of a large area: the parish boundary crossed the county … measured in oxgangs, and may have been an incorrect application of the term common in Lines. Eynsham Cart. i. 45, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury Economic history Economic History. Agriculture. The Oxfordshire portion of Banbury parish was anciently divided between at least … The name Hardwick seems to have undergone no change in its application, although there were doubts in the early 16th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… It has been possible, almost continuously since at latest the end of the 15th century, for children living in the town to … National school into one Blue Coat foundation to be a public elementary school giving Church of England instruction …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury Introduction BANBURY Origins and Growth of the Town, p. 18. Buildings, p. 29. Castle, p. 39. Manors and … 184 Brass bands were less successful in obtaining public interest. A brass band was in existence in 1845, 185 …