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A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was … later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates but not, apparently, Yarnton. In 1086 … 1718 to Benjamin Swete, formerly army paymaster under John Churchill, duke of Marlborough. 78 Swete devised it on his …