Search
A History of the County of Oxford
… sites may therefore be traced, and identification is aided by a valuation of c. 1910 listing owners and tenants of all … chantry, dispersed after 1551. 54 The house was occupied by the schoolmaster in 1609 and later let to trandesman. 55 It was the New Angel inn by the 1760s 56 and was still so in 1856 when the lease was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was presumably established when the borough was founded by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and … century, perhaps in 1877 when the rector Arthur Majendie proposed costly alterations, 68 the centre of the west front … Guide, 115-16; Ecclesiologist, xvi. 192. Rebuilding proposed by S. S. Teulon in Ecclesiologist, xvi. 192-3, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river … divided Woodstock from a wood called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, … 18th century the church was approached from Park Street by a narrow passage called the church stile leading to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as Parker, Porter, Franklin, … acute in the 1840s, continued to be attributed to the state of the glove industry, 46 but the problem was wider: … In 1842 the Woodstock glovers petitioned against proposed tariff reductions on imported gloves. 50 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a … his flockbed in an unidentified schoolhouse chamber. 87 By will of 1585 Richard Cornwell, a London skinner born in … Cocks (d. 1736), rector of Bladon, devoted £800 won in a state lottery in 1719 to the benefit of the poor during his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded by Henry II to provide lodgings for his retinue when he was … to the new residents. 5 The story is supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal … Henry had enfeoffed them with land for their vill acquired by exchange from the Templars' fee in Hensington (in Bladon …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in … between different crafts and trades. In the event a proposed new borough charter in 1584, alleged by Skelton's … Corporations Act of 1882. 54 An Order in Council of 1886 proposed a Scheme for reform, and a charter of April 1886 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Palace, was occupied until the early 18th century by a royal residence, called the king's houses or Woodstock Manor. 4 By the 12th century it was surrounded by a great park, Woodstock Park, renamed Blenheim when …
A History of the County of Oxford
… again provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, implying that the franchise, as … was restricted to supporters, 66 and in 1722 the duchess proposed to avoid the use of masons 'inclined to vote with … supported the Reform Bill; 7 even Lord Blandford, who had proposed enlarging smaller constituencies and extending the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Grange and defended apparently with success an action by the parishioners to recover the gift in 1559. 18 Henry … in 1501. 19 It was pulled down c. 1818 and replaced by a range of five dwellings for five poor widows, 20 which … that date was paid for the use of the school, but it was proposed that it should in future again be applied for the …