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A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited goods usually belonging to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Manor and Manor House ('Bishop's Palace') MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King … Aelfhelm. The estate was conterminous with the later manor and parish, but may have been assembled only since the mid …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … was dramatically reversed by the rapid growth of Wesleyan Methodism. Wesley preached regularly in Witney until his … separate mortuary chapel and burial plots. 23 The leading Methodists' spirit of sober but ecumenical liberalism was …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which … incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe apparently remained comparatively small and …
A History of the County of Essex
… recorded. 94 A charity school, started in 1718 for 10 boys and 5 girls, still existed in 1724. 95 Two schoolmasters were … boys. 96 A small pri- vate day school was recorded in 1833 and there were nine in 1839, attended by c. 200 children; … 1 d. to 1 s. 97 Private schools were also recorded in 1844 and 1845. 98 Of two schools for young ladies recorded in …
A History of the County of Essex
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. One Quaker and a few Anabaptists were recorded in 1664. 69 John Argor … Wivenhoe, which prob- ably met in the houses of John Tylor and William Giles, licensed for Presbyterian meet- ings in … there were Methodist teachers in Wivenhoe. 80 Wesleyan Methodists at Wivenhoe were included in the Colchester …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … &c. There are places of worship for Baptists, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans. The grammar school, founded in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … gave to St. Frideswide's its land in St. Clement's parish and at Twisdelowe (40 a. in 1545) in the north-east corner of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Godstow was returned as a recusant in the 1590s, 64 and his influence may have encouraged the eight other … the early 17th century. 65 Matthew Cheriton, a freeholder, and his uncle Edmund Reynolds of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, who … recusants, as were the Nappers of Holywell, freeholders and farmers of the great tithes of Wolvercote. Cheriton …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was … until the earlier 17th century. Probably between 1621 and 1642 patronage was acquired by the Charltons with the …