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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on … protests the Charity Commissioners ruled that the chapel's repair should be the first charge on the bequest. 73 Alderman …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 … £36 a year, derived from small tithes ( £32), payments for morning prayers ( £2), and rent from the vicarage house ( … (1840), repainting of the church interior (1844), the repair of the Spencer chapel (1848-9), and the building of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been … clerk's wife Lucy Charlett, and after her death in 1827 by their daughter Ann, who continued until 1875. 58 The school … weekdays. Pupils, who stayed at school from the ages of 4 to 10, paid ½ d. a week, the vicar and the parish each paid …
A History of the County of Oxford
… route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at … were consulted without success. 45 The tithe awards for Begbroke (1844) and Yarnton (1845) settled the … to have been used as a military hospital. Forty royalist soldiers were buried in the churchyard between May 1643 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted 10 hides at YARNTON, formerly his cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken … as 2 knights' fees, but it became increasingly difficult for the bishops to obtain their dues from the manor, and in the 14th century their …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … the English by Sir James Douglas, upon whom, as a reward for his fidelity, that monarch conferred the lands, which at … the banks of the rivers, and by bridges kept in excellent repair by contributions from the proprietors and tenants in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… regarded as part of Yarwell until it was transferred to Nassington in 1869. By the late 15th century the manor had … In the present century the stone has been dug only for ballast. Enclosure was in 1778 (NRO, plan 57). In 1881 a … (NRO, C 111/40/1) recorded that the church was in need of repair but the necessary work was not carried out. On the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk … and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field lay apparently … in 1377. 32 In 1801 the population was 234. It had fallen to 218 by 1811 and had risen to its peak at 274 by 1831. For …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… was added or re-built c. 1600 and there appears to have been a S. porch. The E. wall was re-built in 1704. … three boars' heads with three molets on the fesse, perhaps for Wyat of Tewkesbury; ( b) Edward the Confessor, ( c) …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… and S. chapels altered in pitch, that on the N. probably to provide space for the still existing paintings over the arcade; the two … wall, with rebated jambs and two-centred head, three holes for fixing door, late 13th-century. Monuments and …