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A History of the County of Oxford
… and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality stone building … been built parallel to the street. A house on High Street's east side, described in 1704, had a parlour, hall, entry, … and by the 1640s it may have been part of the White Hart Inn, although both those buildings possibly lay a little …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and the right to deliver and return royal writs, the king's officers being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the … was mentioned. That building became the Three Crowns Inn before 1766, and in 1783 the bridewell was an outbuilding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… east, and almost certainly it long predated the borough's foundation. 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with … probably an error, arising possibly from the parish church's location just outside the borough boundary within Curbridge … much of the collapse of an upper floor at the White Hart Inn in 1653, during performance of a play which, he claimed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the growing centrality of Nonconformity to the town's social and civic as well as religious life (Figs. 546). An … Anglican churches together, overall attendance at the town's five Nonconformist meeting houses remained higher, … his wife's family the Townsends, owners of the Staple Hall Inn, 37 and the following year William Castle, a Witney …
A History of the County of Essex
… third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 reflecting Wivenhoe's growth as a port whose develop- ment was linked with the … with most of the south of Wivenhoe being the lord's demesne except for a considerable amount of copyhold land … the river in the 18th century. 76 In 1630 Colchester inn- keepers and vintners paid a Wivenhoe man wharfage for …
A History of the County of Essex
… a post office by 1853, probably the one which was in Queen's Road in 1887, and a sub post office at Wivenhoe Cross by … settlement. 23 The place name, Wivenhoe, meaning Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon … alleys, cards, and slidethrift were played, probably in an inn. 60 Fifteen inns were recorded in 1712, 9 in 1762, 8 inns …
A History of the County of Essex
… 12 to 16 jurors. Cases of animals trespassing on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and larder were heard; … were elected; the court was usually held by the lord's steward, Charles Gray, or his deputy. By that period the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Wix 99. WIX. (F.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxix. N.W. (b)xxix. N.E.) Wix is a parish 6 m. W.S.W. of Harwich. Wix Abbey is the principal monument. … Bardox Farm, house, m. E.S.E. of (4). b(7). White Hart Inn, m. S.E. of the church, is of L-shaped plan, with the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … N. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellingborough; containing 1120 inhabitants. The …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… ownself best." I saw an old carbine, in the house-keeper's room, very curiously wrought in figures, doubtless one of … de Novoloco, p. 246. Esc. 7 H. 4. n. 44. Glover, Ex Coll. S. Lo Kniveton. Fin. 7 H. 4, m. 6: Fin: 7 H: 5, m: 1- … possessed of Wollaton, and the greater part of Sir Francis's possessions Sir Percival left five sons, the eldest of …