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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Subsidiary manors SUBSIDIARY MANORS 36 The manor or capital messuage of CORNERS or CORINS HOLT, which lay in the north-west corner of … town, is first mentioned in 1479-80, when Richard Cause or Caius was in possession of a messuage and 500 acres. 46 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… cover remained in 1978 in the wide strips of wood, or 'rews', which divided the fields. The home park on the … of Buncton, contains at least two buildings of the 17th or 18th centuries, besides some 19th-century cottages and a … outside the parish. Nineteen villeins each paid 16 d. or 24 d. rent a year besides goods in kind for a 'ferling' of …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… and was 50 in 1931. 14 Wistow Hall, which may be built on or near the site of the earlier medieval house, retains the … finials, kneelers, and large lateral stacks remained more or less unaltered until after the end of the 18th century. 18 … of the occupants were not technically paupers. 92 A small contribution to parish administration in the early 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… trustees, but not directly administering charities or keeping accounts. Two houses on the site of No. 45 Corn … Curbridge, with preference given to widows of clothiers or blanket-makers. 6 The houses, to include an upper and … a new Congregationalist chapel and endowing clothing or blanket charities. 8 By his will (dated 1827) the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 d. a year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at what may both … Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in the late 12th or early 13th century, when the bishop invested in several …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as well as more obvious rivals such as Burford, Bicester, or Abingdon (then Berks.). Even by the 1540s and 1550s, when … in the 16th century and later drawn from the town or immediate area. 11 From the 17th century Witney maintained … a new fulling mill in Hailey. 27 Other leading fullers or clothiers acquired mills in surrounding villages: the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… growth and prosperity, market and fair income declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading … also a market, but no formal grant is known. Selds (booths or shops) were repaired in 121011, 3 and from 1218 combined … 9 The underlying cause was presumably insufficient trade or bypassing of the market, though occasional disruption may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with some leading clothiers operating on a national or international scale. More general resurgence of the town's … evidence, apparently incomers from surrounding villages or rival towns: toponymics in or before the 1250s included … important. 74 From 1370 the bishop used Witney as a collection centre for wool from his manors in the area, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a tenth of the working population in 1851 were farmers or agricultural labourers, with another 3 per cent engaged in predominantly agricultural crafts such as smithying or coopering, and 7 per cent described merely as 'labourers' in either agriculture or industry. Lawyers, doctors, churchmen, and those of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a … while a growing number of private and endowed elementary or Nonconformist schools, among them a Quaker school … education, which had included no grammar, history or geography, at a night school run by a former …