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A History of the County of Somerset
… parish suggest that the southern part of the route was new. The original road to Sherborne may have passed through … which eventually prevailed and the three daughters or their heirs were declared coheirs. The manor was then held … common because of their fragmented ownership until 1786 and 1802 when they were bought by John Rogers. 86 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the better management of the distributions. The new scheme typically reflected Thomas's ability to combine … gifts and recipients, and those not regular churchgoers or whose conduct during the past year had been 'wicked' …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bowdery, then incumbent, intended to replace it with a new, two-storeyed, four-roomed house, with wash house and … College. 72 George Blunt, 1544-7, and William Milton, or Gibbon, 1547-64, were former monks. 73 Hugh Evans, … Presentation Deeds II, f. 104. Bodl. MS. d.d. All Souls Coll. c 238; O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. c 658, ff. 45-6; c 2085; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, and they present a remarkable survival of … to sell off large parts of the estate. By 1573 several new freeholds had been created, including that bought by … MS. Top. Oxon. b 19, f. 21; ibid. e 12, passim; Exeter Coll. Mun., N. III. 7, evidence of John Lay, 1818. Below. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the … for the maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually … clothes for the schoolchildren. 56 From 1817 a room in the new parish clerk's house at the north-west end of Church Lane …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 49 The name was preserved in the 17th century in Frize or Frice farm and grounds, 50 and that corner of Yarnton was … 92 The increase was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new … when the Spencer estate was divided and sold after 1685. 96 Traces of tenements had apparently been found in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… remained quit of shire and hundred after 1281, under its new owner Rewley abbey. 18 The last known meeting of the … financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 … Ault, Private Jurisdiction in Eng. 194-6. Cal. Close, 1288-96, 290. O.R.O., Dash. XV/i/49. Ibid. MS. Oxf. Dioc. d 15, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hide, which presumably merged with the larger estate on or before Odo's death in 1097. Yarnton was held thereafter of … as a service wing at the north-west corner of the new house, which was an imposing structure of coursed rubble … where specified, the following acct. is based on Merton Coll. Mun., uncat. deeds. Stapleton, Three Oxon. Pars. 46-8, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… award and map; Thomas, 'Sanitary Survey', 4, 21; Exeter Coll. Mun., N.III.6, mortgage of 1852; Wilb. Visit. 170. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is associated with reminiscences of deeper interest, or more closely identified with the finest strains of … a mile and a half in circuit, by a narrow neck of land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of two small … insufficient for the accommodation of the parishioners. A new church was therefore erected in 1837, well adapted for a …