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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Charities for the poor Charities for the Poor Municipal Charities. The … to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 In 1551 the … Robert Cocks's charity, a municipal charity chiefly for education, had been divided in 1900 to provide an educational …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a gate into the royal …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Education Education Woodstock had an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a … Volunteers in 1803, ostensibly in aid of national defence, perhaps also reflected anxiety over local …
A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … (d. 1622) gave a charity, and his grandson paid for the defence of the charter of 1664. Lord Lovelace promised much …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the … was a registered meeting, probably Baptist, at the house of Samuel Wise, an Old Woodstock farmer, but in 1738 the … there were no meeting houses in the town and hardly any dissenters besides one Quaker family: Presbyterian and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… community in 1620 when it was included among centres of the Jesuit mission in Oxfordshire. 50 In 1625 three women … emancipation. 51 By 1930, 52 when Woodstock formed part of the parish of St. Gregory and St. Augustine, Oxford, there …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Education EDUCATION. Margaret Clayton established a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of the charity funds in 1683. 99 In 1781 the vestry resolved to …