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A History of the County of Somerset
… 95 Thereafter there was no licensed house until the Stag's Head opened in the 1850s in a cottage on the village green. … Yarlington on his wife Henrietta Churchill, duchess of Marlborough (d. 1733) and their children. He died in 1766 and … surviving child Henrietta, duchess of Newcastle (d. 1776 s.p.), and by her nephew Francis Osborne, marquess of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with Brasenose College and, from 1986, with the duke of Marlborough. 56 The church was served by chaplains until … tombstones from the mid 17th century. Eynsham Cart. i, p. 57. The assertion in Stapleton, Three Oxon. Pars. 235 that … Oxon. Pars. 227, 229. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 2085/1. H. A. Evans, 'Yarnton Yesterday and Today', Yarnton Quarterly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owned by Godstow abbey, passing eventually to the dukes of Marlborough. 31 The lot meadows were held in 13 lots, … mead, Pixey. The allotment was made by drawing, at the head of each strip, one of the balls; when a whole shot had … Farm. 14 Above, Intro. Dom. of Incl. ed. Leadam, i. 386. P.R.O., C 142/338, no. 40. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 19, f. 21; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… account, written in 1983, has minor amendments to 1988. H. Compton, Oxf. Canal, 37. The stream is shown in T. … xliii), 187. Above, Cassington, Intro.; O.R.O., QSR ix, p. 391. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 19, f. 194. O.R.O., tithe map. … to George Spencer- Churchill (d. 1857), later duke of Marlborough; O.R.O., MS., Oxf. Dioc. d. 549, f. 136; Bodl. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… again towards the end of the French wars. Expenditure per head of population was higher in Yarnton than elsewhere, even … e 12, f. Poor Abstract, 1818, 360-1; Poor Rate Returns, H. C. 556, p. 139 (1822), v; H.C. 334, p. 174 (1825), iv; H.C. 83, p. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… formerly army paymaster under John Churchill, duke of Marlborough. 78 Swete devised it on his death in 1744 to his … reuniting the manor. 80 The manor was bought in 1895 by H. R. Franklin (d. 1909), a Deddington builder who had worked … of £250. 13 M. Gelling, Early Charters of Thames Valley, p. 138; Eynsham Cart. i. p. 22. V.C.H. Oxon. i. 403, 405. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a two-centred head with a moulded label; the S. doorway, of the same date, … and having the mullions carried up to the two-centred head to form the middle light. The North Aisle is modern, but … with curved braces. A broken fire-back has the initials H. and E.C. 16... a(9). Cottage, on the N. side of the road, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… well attended, and generally from 3000 to 4000 sheep, 500 head of cattle, and about the same number of horses, are … seem from time immemorial to have established their head-quarters here. The number of these at present is about …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… window, the sill of which survives; it has a four-centred head, graduated cinquefoil lights and pierced spandrels. On … with water-holding bases. Capitals are enriched with nail-head. The S. arcade (Plate 32) has round arches and the … slabs: in chancel (1), of Edward Bullock, 1826: (2), of W P. 1695; (3), of J E, 1681. In N. chapel (4), of George Law, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish, which lies on a plateau at the western edge of the Marlborough Downs. A head stream of the Kennet flows south-eastwards across the … Studley manor to Walter's nephew George Hungerford (d. s.p. 1764), 47 who devised it to his wife Elizabeth 48 (d. …