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A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census … royal servant. 60 In 1450 it was confirmed to Alice de la Pole (d. 1475), dowager duchess of Suffolk, daughter and heir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts … 2 gn. a week. 96 Competition from cheaper Birmingham and Wolverhampton wares was intense by the 1780s, 97 and in 1807 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his … there was a septennial Whitsun ale 28 during which the pole and an evergreen bower were set up on the green at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose bailiff was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some 3,000 acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in … 22; P.R.O., C 142/26, no. 25; V.C.H. office, Taunton, Pole MS. 2956. P.R.O., C 142/114, no. 46; ibid. CP 25/2/259/2 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it … and in 1845 an act was passed for a railway from Oxford to Wolverhampton, with a branch of a mile and a half to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1619 The poor prisoners of the castle of Worcester. Ref.110 BA1/1/26/43 (1619) To the right … the neighbors of Wyre Pidle. John Chauntrell Barnarbie Pole Anthoney Younge Anthoney Ordridge William Baxster …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. Ref.110 BA1/1/188/77 (1700) … by a very late instance of his cutting downe a sign pole and a hedge belonging to William Long victualer on …