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A History of the County of Oxford
… lifetime gift before 1628, 5 to be freely lent to one poor man of the town for 2 years. William Gunn ( fl. 1628) of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… machinery, producing 'knitted' blankets in man-made fibres at four times the rate of conventional looms, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the clothier Nicholas Ifield (d. 1587) had at least one man-servant and two maids, 222 while a chandler's house in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… than 17 alewives being fined in 1291. 13 In 1282 a Witney man owned property in 'la boucherie' (presumably the … were possibly also woolmen, 78 while in 1378 a Witney man was conveying wool to a Lombard merchant at London via …
A History of the County of Oxford
… undertaking men's jobs, who received half the standard man's wage. 20 Continued buoyancy in the early 1920s, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that by the 18th century the area was primarily a 'rich man's suburb' 223 seems exaggerated. Woodside (No. 41), the … econ. hist. Allen, Mount House, 20432; below, manor (man. ho.). Allen, Mount House, 1912, 232; below, churches … archit.). Allen, Mount House, 20, 191, 219; below, manor (man. ho.); churches (ch. archit.). Above (roads). Bodl. MSS …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was later styled gentleman, the customary description of a man with no income from trade. 120 The houses in Buswells Row … in Corn Street. 125 In 1889 the UDC surveyor reported a man and his wife with six children, aged between fifteen … some of those involved had Wycliffite sympathies: a Witney man arrested in Herefordshire in 1419 was associated with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were at first local people, the appointment of an Essex man as surveyor and inspector in 1896 marking a shift towards … Church Green were still used occasionally in 1871, when a man was sentenced for non-payment of a fine. 154 Public …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the former needed assistance and the latter, though 'a man of good behaviour and well-learned', had given up … of 37 years, employed as his curate John Hyde, a man who, though resident and deeply involved in town life, … vestments at communion services, 128 was not obviously a man to Witney's taste. Yet many of his achievements, modelled …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Charles Early (d. 1912), a 'convinced Nonconformist' and a man of 'stern rectitude', was similarly remembered as a …