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A History of the County of Oxford
… 39 were said by the vicar to be occupied by the 'labouring poor'. 79 From the late 19th century the major changes in the … E 179/164/504, m. 45. O.R.O., Dash. XV/i/13, 24, 51; Act for Confirming a Partition made between Robert Dashwood and Cholmley Turner, 3 Geo. 1, c. 22 (Priv. Act). Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 19, f. 93. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on clothes for the schoolchildren. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new cottages also'. … houses, 2 public houses, and 39 cottages of the 'labouring poor'. 7 Cottages were said in 1868 to be 'badly constructed, … copy in Westgate Libr., Oxford. Stokenchurch Turnpike Act, 5 Geo. I, c. 1 (Priv. Act). O.R.O., tithe map. Annual …
A History of the County of Oxford
… anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so assessed. … attended by c. 6 parishioners. 23 Two overseers of the poor were chosen annually by rota from the parish's leading … bench. 41 In 1834 Yarnton became part of Woodstock poor law union. In 1932 it was transferred to Witney rural …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 72 who by 1570 had been succeeded by his brother-in-law John Chamberlain, third son of Sir Leonard Chamberlain of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… almost 2400, the Minchmoor of about 2300, the Hangingshaw Law of 2000, feet above the level of the sea. The chief … has tended to diminish the number of applications to the poor's fund. There are in various places remains of the … by double fosses and ramparts. Upon the summit of Yetholm Law are the remains of a Roman camp of quadrilateral form, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… W P. 1695; (3), of J E, 1681. In N. chapel (4), of George Law, 1766, black marble; (5), of Margaret Arney, I703(?); …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Cultivation remains. The common fields were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1777 (map of 1778 in NRO) but nothing is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… relict Maud who held it as dower, 79 to his sister-in-law Isabel Waleran (d. 1284). 80 In 1289 it was held by Queen … under leet jurisdiction. 21 In 17756 41 was spent on poor relief, in the three years to Easter 1785 c. 37 a year. … 1831 and 1834 an average of 318. Yatesbury joined Calne poor-law union in 1835 25 and became part of North Wiltshire …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… fifty persons. The Peak Forest canal commences here. An act was passed in 1846, enabling the Manchester and Sheffield … amounting to 14. 14., is chiefly distributed among the poor. Yelvertoft (All Saints) YELVERTOFT ( All Saints), a … women, each of whom receives a small allowance. The poor-law union of Yeovil comprises 35 parishes or places, …