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A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at … Much altered, but possibly built to the same plan on an unusually large scale and with strikingly up-to-date …
A History of the County of Oxford
… being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the bishop procured excommunication against unnamed … of officers and inscribed with bailiffs' names. 60 An annual bailiffs' feast or 'inauguratory dinner', held in …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Wivenhoe manor, the lords presenting regularly, except in 1564, 1589, 1607, and 1637 when turns had been granted or … on the parish boundary with Elmstead, possibly replacing an earlier one. It was assessed on six hearths in 1662. … to the living in 1564. 29 Formerly a weaver, he was a committed Calvinist, who had been exiled in Switzerland in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Introduction Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and … Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th century. The south-eastern part of the … of a series of brewers, and from 1771 was certainly an alehouse. From 1774 to 1821 or later it was the Boot, by 1834 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged … Fitzwarren, Wilts, 1625; see Foster's Index Eccl.; for an account of his son John, see Calamy, i. 292; & Foster's … English college at Rheims; on returning to England, he was committed to the Tower and imprisoned for some months; …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … chequerwork, and it retains stone mullioned windows and an enriched plaster centrepiece to one of the ground-floor … the Vicar of Wilsford and Woodford. See p. 215. W.R.O., Alehouse Reg. 18227; ibid. Wilts. Freehold Bk. 1821, and see …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Key to Buildings Section Scale 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original … as the White Hart inn and a little adjoining house; an attached close on the east was in Hensington field and the … the site was the Globe, 15 and was probably the inn or alehouse occupied by Thomas Godfrey in the early 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its original market, 66 but it remained a … is not recorded, held estates in north Berkshire, was an official of Eynsham abbey, and may have been engaged in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded … a market to the new residents. 5 The story is supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's … Roman coins were found near the church in 1755 and an urn near Oxford Street in 1810. 11 The underlying rock is …