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A History of the County of Oxford
… nondenominational National school was established in 1813 on Bridge Street, prompting a sharp fall in the number of … District Visitors; the school acquired new premises on Church Green in 1856, and a second National school at … technical school under the auspices of the Wesleyan school on High Street, whose headmaster became its first principal. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century. No. 49 Market Square is a timber-framed house on a prominent island site, formerly jettied on the principal faades; the structure is hidden beneath … from old views include the former corn returns office on the site of the surviving Corn Exchange, and a predecessor …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or small portmoot met usually around 612 times a year on a Wednesday or Friday, and the two tourns, lawdays, or great portmoots for the borough on a Monday near Hockday and Michaelmas. 24 The pattern was … at least five full vestries as well as meetings of ad hoc committees, and in 1807 there were ten. By then a small …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the lease to Robert Dudley (d. 1588), earl of Leicester; 7 on his death he was succeeded as lessee by Stephen Brice (d. … was lord certainly by 1652, and in 1654 settled the manor on his son John, 12 though Brice may have remained lessee of … (from 1723) earl of Clarendon. 16 Henry settled it in 1735 on his son Henry (d. 1753), Viscount Cornbury, 17 with whom …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with territories north of the river Windrush dependent on a probable minster at Minster Lovell, and those south of the river dependent possibly on Bampton. 2 The church was dedicated to St Mary the Virgin … 19th-century antiquaries that there was an earlier church on Corn Street are unsubstantiated, 4 and an isolated …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rector. 3 Probably that tendency, too, was focused on prominent clothiers and other tradesmen; inhabitants … all England'. 11 In 1850 a modest Methodist meeting house on High Street was superseded by a large and prominent … Woodgreen, and by a Primitive Methodist group established on Corn Street in the 1820s. 12 Both the Quakers and the …
A History of the County of Essex
… amount of copyhold land near Wivenhoe Cross and some on the east side of High Street just south of Wivenhoe Hall. … Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad and Nordhei, on the south side of the road to Tendring (presumably via … there was pasture for 60 sheep, and the number of sheep on the demesne of Wivenhoe manor had increased to 87 from 60 …
A History of the County of Essex
… with usually 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of … them sailors. 52 Between 1576 and 1594 parish expenditure on poor relief was between c. £5 and £7 a year. 53 In 1692 … officer of health, surveyor, and sanitary inspector. Committees were set up for finance, highways and drainage, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in St. Giles's parish. 91 In 1636 the open field arable, on the higher ground in the east, was divided into four … land for 6 ploughteams although only 5 were recorded, 1 on the demesne and 4 on the tenants' land. In 1279 a total of 28 ½ yardlands, 8 in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of land in the open fields. 98 The parish spent £57 on poor relief in 1776, an average of £74 between 1783 and … In 1803 a total of 11 adults, mainly aged and infirm, were on regular out-relief; they were apparently set to work, for …