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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. … 1691 granted several pieces of land, for the support of a school, for distribution among the poor of this chapelry and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… nearby are the two successive rectory houses, 72 the school, and the house called Rectory Cottage in 1984, which … of the parish; remains of the agger were found near Terry's Cross in the south-west corner. 10 The chief east-west road … east led from Blackstone by way of Cuckolds Green to Terry's Cross, mentioned in 1647. 16 In 1628 it was called the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the … Woodmancott WOODMANCOTT, a hamlet, in the parish of Bishop's-Cleeve, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Cleeve, Eastern … and the late H. G. Knight, Esq., of Firbeck, as lessee. A school for girls is supported by subscription. Woodsfield …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Education EDUCATION. In 1808 there was a school for eight children, 48 and in 1819 eight or ten girls … night school for nine years which had ceased by 1875. 58 W.S.R.O., Ep. II/14A (1808). Educ. of Poor Digest, 973. Educ. … of Council, 1870-1 [C. 406], p. 537, H.C. (1871), xxii. W.S.R.O., Ep. II/14A/1 (1875). Rep. of Educ. Cttee. of Council, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the … in 1587 with Richard Cornwell's bequest for the grammar school, were transferred to the corporation in 1599 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the Poor Municipal Charities. The corporation's first almshouses were successors to those founded in the … in the 1590s the house was taken over for the town clerk's use. 78 The corporation provided an alternative house with … of London, to be divided equally between the grammar school, a sermon, and doles of 6 d. to the poor who attended …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and burial ground were reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 … in an agreement with Bladon parishioners over Woodstock's responsibility for repairs to Bladon church and churchyard, … of whom several were also headmaster of the grammar school. 15 One early 19th-century rector complained that the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the … to the original building plots. 94 Quitrents rose from 36 s. 5 d. in 1230 to 43 s. in the 1260s, c. 45 s. in 1279, and … mentioned in the early 17th century, and the grammar school of 1585, housed from c. 1600 in a room attached to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market … Webley had a glove factory in the former industrial school behind his house, no. 24 Park Street; in 1967 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Education Woodstock had an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th … master, who was to be a good preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's relict Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property … to the trustees in 1598 in final settlement of Cornwell's gift. 91 A sum of £50 given earlier by the Dolmans directly …