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A History of the County of Oxford
… 47 gross, but owed a rent charge of 4 6 s. 8 d. to Merton College, Oxford, granted in 1518 in return for college premises conveyed to Stephen Fox, bishop of Winchester, for his new college of Corpus Christi. The vicar's income had been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… occasions the church was served by students from Mansfield College, Oxford, but there were also some settled and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and appropriators, the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford: the tithes were commuted for land in 1809. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and appropriators, the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford. The great tithes, exclusively of Little …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… impropriators, the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' College, Oxford. The chapel, dedicated to St. Michael, is a … II., and widow of Aldhelm, Duke of Northampton, founded a college here for a dean and several prebendaries or Secular … was called Wulfrunis Hamton, whence its present name. The college continued under the same government till 1200, in …
A Dictionary of London
… at the west end of "Poore widowes alley" adjoining the College of Harrolds on the north, opening to Paul's wharf …
A History of the County of Oxford
… return for Wolvercote. 14 Before 1658, however, Merton College, patron of St. Peter-in-the-East, appointed a … curate an additional £13 6 s 8 d. a year. 21 By 1808 the college stipend had fallen to £10 a year, the small tithes … Oxford scholars: Matthew Smith, principal of Brasenose College, in 1533 and Thomas Powell, former law bursar of All …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In 1502 a Wolvercote man supplied a fellow of All Souls College with nearly 600 bundles of firewood, and in 1650 two … 25 In the early 19th century the tenant of the St. John's College property in Wolvercote, 4 ¼ yardlands in 1636, … were said to be additional to those belonging to the college's Wolvercote farm, and to have been leased for 60 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton College, was attended by 101 children, and in 1823 the master … 1 d. a week, and in 1831, with the assistance of Merton College, St. John's College, and the National Society, a new girls' schoolroom …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the later Wolvercote Green, and the substantial St. John's College farmhouse, later Manor Farm, further north. The … house, shortly before 1636 when it was sold to St. John's College. It was refronted and otherwise improved in the early 19th century, presumably by the college tenant Richard Williams. 8 The house was again …