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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 … Even so extraordinary expenses, such as for parliamentary bills and establishing the wool market in the 1570s and the … 1765, 90 when it was let to the duke of Marlborough in exchange for the lease of a more suitable, isolated, pest …
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 … £ 1,325 given by the Marlboroughs to settle freemen's bills to pass through his accounts as if government funds, so … Cary corresp. is in P.R.O., C 104/109. P.R.O., C 104/109, bills of 1680; Boro. Mun. 76/2, Sept. 1680. Hist. Parl., …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made from the time of the foundation of Tintern Abbey. 17 No dole was made after 1546 when John …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Church CHURCH. The church of Woolaston was recorded in the foundation grant by Walter … 1131. 91 Following a dispute with Llanthony Priory, lords of Alvington manor, it was determined between 1146 and 1169 … from Woolaston, Aluredston, and Alvington except tithes of the demesne of Alvington, and that in return the abbey …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the lordship of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted of eight oxen … a. in 1813 to c. 250 a. in 1842 and 1921, perhaps by the exchange or sale of lands with Plusterwine House farm which …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in WOOLASTON within Twyford hundred. 6 Unlike other estates of the great thegn the manor of Woolaston probably never … 62 In 1302 Roger gave the manor to Tintern Abbey in exchange for the manor of 'Plateland' (Mon). 63 It was held …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … its original course partly obliterated by the construction of the Huntspill River in 1940. Some of the southern boundary …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, 6 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix … to Ealhmund, bishop of Winchester, and his see in an exchange. 35 There is no evidence that it belonged to the see …