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A History of the County of Oxford
… to two men at 2 a year about 1440 was renewed to Robert Box and Thomas Nobys in 1460, and in 1496 William Box took on a new lease of two fulling mills at Waleys at the same rent. Box was still lessee in the 1520s, 59 but from the 1530s the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was presumably still expanding in the 1580s when Thomas Box built a new fulling mill in Hailey. 27 Other leading … by the clothiers and weavers. In the 1590s Thomas Box agreed to dress 10 cloths a week for the Rankells at his … parish in the 1540s including members of the Wenman, Box, Humfrey, and Bishop families, all involved in cloth …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Mun., B/M/145, pp. 910, 2636. Blenheim Mun., box 156, lease 16 Feb. 1704/5; Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. d 215, ff. … 11 Oct. 1800. Blenheim Mun., B/M/204, s.a. 1842. Ibid. box 156, leases 170545, rental 1751 (folded into unrelated … shelf A2, bdle. 22, undated note of tolls; ibid. shelf C1, box of 18th- and 19th.-cent. pps., 'Notes on Hist. Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Mill comprised two fulling mills both leased to William Box, so that in all the manor contained three fulling mills …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for a water-powered gig-mill at Crawley, Blenheim Mun., box 156, lease 5 Feb. 1714/15. Plummer and Early, Blanket … [ c. 1962]: photocopy in COS; Blenheim Mun., shelf A6, box 2, surrender 2 Nov. 1922. S. C. Jenkins, The Fairford … b 14, ff. 16, 25, 30 and v.; Blenheim Mun., shelf C1, box of 18th- and 19th-cent. pps., list of lords and stewards. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by the grammar school, founded in 1660 by the grocer Henry Box (d. 1662), and grounded in a classical curriculum aimed … School 20 Witney grammar school was founded by Henry Box (d. 1662), one of a prominent family of farmers and … and four senior Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford, which Box had attended, became Visitors. Mary Box retained control …
A History of the County of Oxford
… occupied in 1590 by the wealthy fuller and farmer Thomas Box stood at High Street's north-east end immediately south … of Church Green in 1660 by the wealthy London grocer Henry Box, related to a family of Witney fullers and farmers; the … Mun., B/M/144, f. 55; B/M/147, f. 270; ibid. shelf C1, box of 18th. and 19th-cent. pps., surrender by Eliza Batt c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… documents: in 1633 papers were taken from a trunk in John Box's chamber in the house of his father-in-law Robert … one of the richest men in the town, kept his will in a box in his study. 92 In 1587 a broadweaver bequeathed a … and clerks, and waiting rooms. 198 Grammar School ( Henry Box School) The original building of the former grammar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and those for Sunday trading were given to the poor-box in 1579. 36 The two annual tourns or lawdays, possibly … Thomas Fermor alias Ricards (d. 1485) and members of the Box family. 51 Bailiffs in the 16th century were business- or … often becoming bailiffs: thus the clothier Philip Box (d. 1593), constable in 1550, was bailiff seven times …
A History of the County of Oxford
… xi. 4951; Hants RO, 11M59/E2/154967/34; Blenheim Mun., box 156, leases 16931730; ORO, Welch V/i/1011. ORO, Misc. Lem. I/1; Blenheim Mun., box 156, leases 173646; Complete Peerage, iii. 2689. Blenheim Mun., box 152, sale 27 July 1751; Complete Peerage, viii. 499500. …