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A History of the County of Oxford
… and cloth trades were important. In the 1550s a Woodstock man who was neither a woollen nor a staple merchant was … and queens by Oxford university. 63 In 1611 a Woodstock man, when choosing presents, bought plain gloves in Woodstock … earlier derive solely from a poetic reference of 1598 to a man's ruff which 'did eate more time in neatest setting/ Then …
A History of the County of Oxford
… council disfranchised an evicted town clerk and in 1614 a man who had insulted the mayor. 66 The freeman's oath in the … grudging' duties to God and the Crown, and to be 'a quiet man amongst your neighbours, always ready to do good and … were expected to entertain the council well, and in 1732 a man admitted for 5 was asked to pay 10 towards a treat. 85 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a prolonged and expensive struggle. In 1705 the duke's man, General William Cadogan defeated one of Abingdon's … friend Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood of Kirtlington, a ruined man who needed the protection of a parliamentary seat. 82 The …
A History of the County of Somerset
… amalgamated but in 1939 only one farm was over 150 a., one man described himself as a poultry farmer and two as …
A History of the County of Sussex
… kneeling before a prayer-desk, while behind an old man holds a book, the subject obviously being the Magnificat. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 13th-century; (5) tapering slab with full-face figure of man (Plate 49) in low relief with hands crossed and holding a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a petty-session for the division takes place at the Green Man, at Blackheath, on the first Thursday in every month. The …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… keapt the said boye of his owne chardge beinge a pore man and not able any longer to keape hym but dothe desire to … your good worships to order, that the said poore man may have some weekely allowance within the said parishe, … honest neighboure the berer hereof Henry Jackson a poore man of charge of wief children and famylye, whom he hath …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… and requeste of John Lerego thelder beinge an aged man; within our parishe of Rock: and a man of good conversacion and honeste behaviour; amongest us … behaviour and the convenyency of the place; he beinge a man soe fyttinge for soe good and necessary a purpose; to …