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A History of the County of Sussex
… with a cross passage entered by late medieval doorways. Early in the 17th century a timber-framed upper floor was … the north side of the house survives a walled court with early 18th-century entrance piers. A barn to the north-west … of the main east-west range of Park Farm is probably early 17th-century. The short southern wing is probably of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… N. Closes shown on the Enclosure Map of 1778 suggest an early extension of the village to the E., which had … market gardening business based on the rapid transport of early radishes by local carriers. By the 16th century there … copyhold houses are generally smaller on average, by the early 19th century they included the more fashionable and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The S. and W. walls of the nave and the W. tower contain early 13th-century masonry; the remainder of the church was … Nave has in the S. wall W. of the porch some early 13th-century masonry and a window of one lancet light … the first stage and lower part of the second are of the early 13th century. The E. doorway to the tower is in two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but later 17th-century lessees were tradesmen. 62 By the early 18th century the house was an inn, the Pied Bull, 63 … girls' boarding school and probably closed the bank in the early 1840s. 65 The house was the grammer school and master's … 67 No. 10 was let separately after its rebuilding in the early 17th century; a tenant before 1646 was James Keene, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… women. 84 The corporation sold the almshouses in the early 20th century for c. £80, which was invested for the … given out regularly by the mayor in the 18th century and early 19th. 93 Separate distributions were made of the bread … rent-paying tenants; 40 it was probably so used from an early date, since in 1825 it was not mentioned as a charity. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rarely called a chapel after the 17th century. From an early date the town was an ecclesiastical centre: Woodstock … relationship suggests the possibility that, as elsewhere, early corporate life in the borough had centred on a … Urban tithes, difficult to collect, were probably commuted early: in 1591 some if not all townsmen were paying a 'rate' …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was smaller, for there was growth in the 13th century and early 14th. In 1204 the town was farmed for only £4, which … high quitrent of 1 s. 6 d. and probably both were large early encroachments. The town's medieval guild hall, not … implications of later plot shapes 6 indicate the town's early development. The broad Park Street, extending from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from Warwick, Aylesbury, and Marden (Herefs.). Although no early inns were mentioned, it may be significant that the … to have declined in the later Middle Ages, and in the early 16th century Woodstock remained among the smallest and … the mercer John Barnes (or Baron), ten times mayor in the early 16th century. Weavers, some fairly prosperous and one a …
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 … payable by the Skinners' Company of London. 93 Other early endowments seem to have been lost, notably a rent …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Street. 20 The parish was perambulated regularly by the early 17th century; 21 an 'imperfect' perambulation of 1806 … 92 and 131 adult males at the muster, 31 and suitors to early 17th-century courts leet, theoretically all male … in the later 17th century was between 550 and 700. In the early 18th century the building of Blenheim Palace introduced …