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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… to John, earl of Marlborough, to be general of foot. [ S.P.44. 168. p. 354.] Commission to the same, to command in … The king to the master and senior fellows of St. Peter's college, Cambridge. Being informed that Daniel Waller … to return to Riga. Latin. [ Ibid.] Pass for Mr. Henry Fermor of Tusmore, Oxfordshire, to go to France, with his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ECONOMIC LIFE 1500 TO 1800 From the 16th century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, … clothiers of Suffolk, Wiltshire, and Berkshire. 17 Thomas Fermor's widow Emmot, previously married to the local woolman … valued at over 500. A 'store' left to Emmot by Thomas Fermor may also have been a wool store, perhaps implying a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… international scale. More general resurgence of the town's population and economy followed, though possibly not until … merchant Robert Blewet and by the Witney woolman Thomas Fermor or Ricards, who was typical of the sort of wool … of a Langford woolman and apparently of Welsh ancestry, Fermor leased former demesne land within Witney manor from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Curbridge were added in 1932, bringing the town's area to 1,306 a., and intakes from Curbridge (47 a.) and … around Church Green. The wealthy clothiers Emmot Fermor (d. 1501) and Henry Jones (d. 1594) had houses there, … between the vicarage house to the north and other Fermor and Wenman property to the south, was rebuilt as a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … only in richer townspeople's houses such as those of Emmot Fermor (1501), 79 William Elmer, woollen draper (1591), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … successors included the wealthy woolman Thomas Fermor alias Ricards (d. 1485) and members of the Box family. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … south transept aisle by the woolman Thomas Ricards or Fermor in 1485, and was suppressed in 1548, when there was no chantry priest and no plate; a second Fermor chantry, endowed with 13 s. 4 d. a year, was also …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Park, related to the prominent recusant family of Fermor. 3 Two or three members of the recusant Tempest family … probably with a group centred on the Greenwood family's manor house at Brize Norton: a priest from there tried to … including a shopkeeper, mantua-maker, publican, and tailor's wife. 6 Two or three Catholic families remained in 1802, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… of Wymersley' was said to have been formerly leased at 40 s., which sum had been raised 20 years before to 10 marks, 4 … Richard Earl of Kent disposed of his estates, as Richard Fermor owned the hundreds of Towcester and Wymersley when he …