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A History of the County of Oxford
… to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 In 1551 the … in 1724. 79 In 1614 it housed old men and women; a list of doles to the almshouse poor c. 1630 evidently included … clothes on Christmas day. 11 The distribution of Cary's cloth was regularly made, but by the later 18th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the … and cover, 40 but the earliest surviving plate is a silver chalice and paten of 1630-1. Walter Pryse of Woodstock …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … number of mercers and drapers suggest that the wool and cloth trades were important. In the 1550s a Woodstock man who … no. 14 Oxford Street by 1683. 46 The ironmonger Edward Silver (d. 1684) and the mercer Benjamin Johnson (d. 1715) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … in educational provision for the poor. 86 The opening of an infants' school in 1840 and, belatedly, of a National …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his … S.P. Dom. 1644, 459, 507, 528. Letter Bks. of Sir S. Luke (Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xlii), 52-3, 360; W. Dugdale's Life, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … duke of York, received a record of his admission in a silver box and in 1802 Henry Agar, Viscount Clifden, received … considering schemes to employ the poor in silk winding or cloth and blanket weaving. 53 By the 18th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 but in 1553 the borough again provided …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Matthew) WOOKEY ( St. Matthew), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Wells-Forum, E. division of Somerset, 1 mile (W.) from … of the Twelve Apostles, worked in embroidery with gold and silver thread enriched with beads. Nearly half a mile to the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both … slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around … terraces, is an extensive area of heathland on Bagshot Beds. Recent boundary changes in the S.W. have resulted in …
A Dictionary of London
… Wool Quay - Wormwood Street Wool Quay At the south end of Water Lane, east of that lane (S. 44). Earliest mention: "Wolkaye," ".Wolkey," … See Mary (St.) Woolchurch. Wooley's Court North out of Maiden Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Within (O. and M. 1677). …