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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed at a … on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river crossing. 90 The south boundary … c. 1780 when the road was levelled by the turnpike commissioners. 63 That section of Oxford Street was 'late a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a popular … lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national reforms, however, provoked a comment … the school was probably closed by 1901 when the Charity Commissioners sanctioned Bell's retirement and ordered the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Local government Local government BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out … and non-resistance; in 1662 a purge carried out by commissioners appointed under that Act removed the mayor, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… representation Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 … became high steward of Woodstock in 1661, was one of the commissioners charged with purging the corporation in 1662, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held two fisheries in demesne at Madgett. 6 By the … late 13th century, shortly before the manor was granted to Tintern Abbey, there was considerable demesne at … time in 1660 the wood was committed to the care of the Commissioners of Dean Forest in order to check the felling of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of … This place is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The … The town is partially paved, under the superintendence of commissioners annually chosen under the provisions of an act …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of … of Caer Guorangon in his catalogue of cities belonging to the Britons, by whom, from the advantages of its situation … and the produce applied to the funds of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. There are eight honorary canons. Arms of the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Sessions: 1600s Ellioner Reeve. Ref.110 BA1/1/16/29 (1601) To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others … proofe of wyttnesses. [illegible] and the rather because a messenger is sent from London on purpose for your peticioner. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worplesdon (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of … Dr. Moore in 1706 bequeathed 200, directing the interest to be applied in teaching children. In 1829, the remains of a … with gas, paved, and abundantly supplied with water by commissioners appointed for its improvement, who have erected …