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A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the … M. Verney, iii. 313, 428; iv. 243-5; Marshall, Woodstock Man. 446; Gardner, Dir Oxon. (1852), 695-6, which wrongly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … twentieth, c. 43 contributors paid a total of only c. 3 5 s., less than nearby Hanborough or any Oxfordshire market … and cloth trades were important. In the 1550s a Woodstock man who was neither a woollen nor a staple merchant was …
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 … council disfranchised an evicted town clerk and in 1614 a man who had insulted the mayor. 66 The freeman's oath in the …
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, … member, 90 and the rejection by parliament of the freemen's choice when there was a double return in 1640 may not have … a prolonged and expensive struggle. In 1705 the duke's man, General William Cadogan defeated one of Abingdon's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… east - west street. They include Dawbins, Jacobs, Tassel's Cottage, no. 4 Vicarage Road, and Apple Tree Cottage. … Sir John Hody (d. 1441), chief justice of the king's bench. 6 Fifty horsemen, a foot company from the Bridgwater … amalgamated but in 1939 only one farm was over 150 a., one man described himself as a poultry farmer and two as …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the Confessor by Fulcui, was not included in Earl Roger's rape but was held in 1086 of the king in chief by Odo of … paid 30 marks to have the custody and marriage of Ralph's heir, then in ward to Bonenee daughter of Roger, 4 who had … kneeling before a prayer-desk, while behind an old man holds a book, the subject obviously being the Magnificat. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Woolhope 95 WOOLHOPE (C.d.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXXV, S.W., (b)XL, N.E., (c)XL, S.E., (d)XLI, N.W., (e)XLI, S.W.) … 13th-century; (5) tapering slab with full-face figure of man (Plate 49) in low relief with hands crossed and holding a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 … 18th and 19th. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 6. 18. 9., and in the patronage of Mrs. L. Flood … a petty-session for the division takes place at the Green Man, at Blackheath, on the first Thursday in every month. The …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… keapt the said boye of his owne chardge beinge a pore man and not able any longer to keape hym but dothe desire to … your good worships to order, that the said poore man may have some weekely allowance within the said parishe, … the overseers for the poore there appeare before Master [S.t?] Chauncellor and Master Jones and to shew cause etc. …