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A History of the County of Oxford
… including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to … unnamed 'malefactors' said to have infringed his liberties at Witney, suggesting that not all such rights went … Representation Witney borough was represented in parliament only five times between 1305 and 1330, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… either then or later. 1 In 1549 Oxfordshire gentry met at Witney to coordinate suppression of the Prayer Book … Two or three members of the recusant Tempest family lived at Witney in the early 17th century, and in 1641 Francis … the Roman Catholic Thomas Stonor, encouraged to stand for parliament by several leading townsmen, was nevertheless …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (SP 89536468), in the N.W. of the parish, on alluvium at 40 m. above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show a ring ditch … Fig. 85), in the N.W. of the parish, on clay and alluvium at 43 m. above OD. Air photographs (CUAP, ABD 94, AFX 4, ZE … The common fields of the parish were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1778 (VCH Northants., IV (1937), 58; NRO, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… miles (N. E.) from Chepstow; containing 1022 inhabitants. At the time of the Norman survey, William, Count D'Eu, who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the … town was constituted a borough to return two members to parliament, to be elected by the 10 householders of a …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… broad. In King Edward the Confessours time this was valued at 100s. but when the great Survey was made, towards the latter end of the Conquerours reign, but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and … This gentleman also before his brother's death served in Parliament for this County. He died in 1758, and was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford added other land on the edge of Port Meadow. 69 At the Dissolution the estate was bought by George Owen and, … with the duke's lands in Wolvercote in 1884. 71 Two hides at CUTTESLOWE were confirmed to St. Frideswide's minster in … grandfather of William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long Parliament. 77 Between 1611 and 1625 Lenthall's grandson John …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain … 1601, to April, 1603, pardoned by the queen, restored by parliament 21 July, 1603, K.G. 1603, captain of the isle of … student of Gray's Inn 1625, knighted by Charles I, at Whitehall 4 June, 1641, died 1 Sept., 1687. See Foster's …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the N. and S. by E.-flowing tributaries of the R. Tove at about 115 m. above OD. From these valleys the land rises … of land to pasture, though this may not have all been at Kirby. In 1547 a thousand sheep were being grazed on the … The common fields of Woodend were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1788. Ridge-and-furrow of these fields exists …
The Environs of London
… now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from … In 1620, he represented the borough of Cirencester in parliament; and, in 1640, the University of Oxford. His … Mogul; some small tracts, and several of his speeches in parliament. His negotiations at the Ottoman Porte were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1 The parish includes buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In … from about 200 ft. in the river valley to about 400 ft. at the top of the down; from this higher ground three spurs … successively to his brothers Sir Robert, a member of Parliament for Salisbury and later Chief Justice of Common …