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A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the borough's rents, market tolls, and profits of court. 79 In King … of supremacy, allegiance, and non-resistance; in 1662 a purge carried out by commissioners appointed under that Act …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 88 but in 1553 the borough again provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, … 1641. 9 Lenthall was by then Speaker; Pye was evicted in Pride's Purge in 1648. 10 No member for Woodstock was summoned to the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… source whence the present account has been compiled. Day's great work on the British fishes contains but rare allusions to Somerset; although Baker's paper is quoted in the preface (p. iii.) it has evidently … species are taken in the Parret. *107. Mud Lamprey or Pride. Petromyzon branchialis, Linn. Common in brooks. …