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Old and New London
… in St. James's Park that Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, was stabbed, though not fatally, with a penknife, by … was a servant in the family of Mr. Wright, Recorder of Oxford, where, having leisure time, she employed it in …
Old and New London
… and the "Blue Boar," the cognisance of the Veres, Earls of Oxford. The "Chequers," in Abingdon Street, was the bearing … as having been the inn from which the first stage-coach to Oxford started, some two centuries ago. Those who knew the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… but in 1440 its land passed to All Souls College, Oxford. The site of the priory is unknown, though it perhaps … The earliest map of Weston, of 1593 (All Souls College, Oxford; copy in NRO; M. W. Beresford, The Lost Villages of … field arrangements, but a map of 1593 (All Souls College, Oxford, copy in NRO) depicts the strips and furlongs which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… king's books at 8.18.1., and in the'gift of New College, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for 680, and the glebe … the parish, poorlaw union, and hundred of Thame, county of Oxford; containing 70 inhabitants. Weston, North WESTON, … in the union of Bicester, hundred of Ploughley, county of Oxford, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Bicester; containing 504 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Witney, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Burford; containing 180 … 159; patrons, the Dean and Canons of Christ-Church, Oxford. The church, situated on an eminence, is in the Norman …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 1404-36, prebendary of Wells, warden of Merton college, Oxford, and delegate at the Councils of Constance and Basle. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… king's books at 26, and in the gift of Queen's College, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for 496. 18., and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… which is succeeded to the N. by a large area of low lying Oxford Clay in the region of Radipole Lake and by two small … widow of Rev. Thomas Hayward, Warden of New College, Oxford, 1812, and Elizabeth their daughter, 1770, white … the hung-sash windows are of graduated heights. (235) The Oxford Hotel, Grosvenor Place, comprises two distinct …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and impropriators, the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. A charity school was founded by Mr. Coare, who … in thirteen scholarships founded in Brasenose College, Oxford, by Dr. Nowell, in 1572. In the township is also a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Thame, hundred of Pirton, county of Oxford, 2 miles (S.) from Tetsworth; containing 99 … union of Headington, hundred of Bullingdon, county of Oxford, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Oxford; containing 997 inhabitants. A post-office is …