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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to … received £8 a year, and the remaining £7 was to be used for educational purposes. Fletcher further provided that if … Vaughan Thomas and the churchwardens drew up a schedule for the better management of the distributions. The new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… £36 a year, derived from small tithes ( £32), payments for morning prayers ( £2), and rent from the vicarage house ( … church, in the morning and in the evening alternately. 82 For most of his long incumbency Vaughan Thomas was also … remnants of the screen, were used in 1820 to frame the table of benefactions which hangs on the north wall of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of inclosing 230 a. for pasture and allowing 6 houses and 4 cottages to become … government because of a threatened uprising. 25 The Privy Council's concern may have slowed the process, but it could … are called Bolton (or Bouton), Dunn, Freeman, Gilbert, Green, Harry, Rothe, Watery Molly, and White; the Begbroke …
A History of the County of Oxford
… he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been … of £7 a year, devised by Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1685) for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel … xiii. Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1895). Rep. Educ. Cttee. of Council [C. 2048-I], p. 793, H.C. (1878), xxviii. Schs. in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were consulted without success. 45 The tithe awards for Begbroke (1844) and Yarnton (1845) settled the … with a carriage drive and lodge. 20 There was a village green north and, perhaps, partly south of the Cassington road … 1920s, however, 37 houses had been built; 36 the parish council stressed the need for yet more. 37 Ribbon development …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… jambs and two-centred arch; the reveals have sockets for a draw-bar. In the W. wall is a 14th-century window of … the road, 60 yards S.E. of (26), is largely modern except for the N. block, which is of 16th-century date. The upper …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at … whole of the remainder moorland, affording rough pasturage for sheep and a few cattle. The surface is hilly and … rich beds of shell-marl, which is used as manure for the lands. Numerous springs of excellent water afford an …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk … new building in the parish until the 1930s. By 1934 four council houses had been built in the Street and four beside … sermon was preached and there was no cover for the holy table. 64 Nathaniel Webb, rector from 1656, was ejected as a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… in 1841 but contains the following Fittings Communion Table: with turned legs, late 17th-century, carved front … three boars' heads with three molets on the fesse, perhaps for Wyat of Tewkesbury; ( b) Edward the Confessor, ( c) … (8). Cottage, on the S. side of the road at Barrelhill Green, 1,500 yards W.N.W. of the church, has exposed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… altered in pitch, that on the N. probably to provide space for the still existing paintings over the arcade; the two … wall, with rebated jambs and two-centred head, three holes for fixing door, late 13th-century. Monuments and … mouldings, running ornament and crossed lines, yellow on green, 15th-century, East Anglian type. Seating: In N. …