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A History of the County of Oxford
… glebe house and supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton College, was attended by 101 children, and in … in 1831, with the assistance of Merton College, St. John's College, and the National Society, a new girls' schoolroom … Subscriptions, including £3 a year from Catherine Rawson's charity, and the children's pence, were insufficient to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The income was not fully used and a surplus of £342 3 s. 8 d. existed in 1828. 13 In 1834 a school was built by … buildings were erected and the school, called St. Dominic's, was placed on an established footing with 50 pupils. 24 … Glos. Colln. RF 348.2. Bd. of Educ., List 21, 1912 (H.M.S.O.), 170; 1922, 109; 1936, 125. Ex inf. the head teacher. …
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 town except Eynsham. 72 In 1327 Woodstock's assessment of c. 40 s. was paid by only 18 inhabitants, of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with … of trade to the vicinity of the court, and Henry's motives probably included a desire for rents and tolls as … Park 6 and was perhaps founded only shortly before Henry's death in 1189, for in 1194 its rents apparently yielded …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … in 1841, 1,380 in 1961, and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. … south and roughly doubled in size. Admaston, 'Eadmund's tun', 10 grew in the mid 18th century from a rural village …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as the king's wood c. 1130, it was claimed in 1235 to be well stocked … in 1397-8 and 1413-14. 67 The area was still known as King's wood c. 1577. 68 Much of the surviving woodland was … divided) were occupied by 35 cottagers, 12 of them at Pain's Lane. By the early 18th century smallholdings probably …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cuts a steep-sided valley from east to west between God's Hill (107 m. (352 ft.)) and Yarlington Sleights (127 m. … but in the east there are thin north-south bands of Fuller's Earth and Fuller's Earth rock. 78 There were said to be light and dark blue …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is still preserved in the name of a pass called the "Hart's leap," marked by two stones said to have been placed there … and Teviotdale, and patronage of the Crown the minister's stipend is 233. 8. 1., with a manse, and the glebe is … tended to diminish the number of applications to the poor's fund. There are in various places remains of the …