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A History of the County of Oxford
… John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later … he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been … 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
… YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the … route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at … road, and around Stonehouse Farm, 54 indicate that some meadow and pasture was temporarily ploughed, presumably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit … Villeins as well as free tenants were, unusually, expected to contribute to the lord's scutage. 15 The 'hundred' of … in 1279, seems to have been the name given to an annual view of frankpledge at Yarnton attended by tenants from St. …
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 at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … imposing structure of coursed rubble limestone and ashlar, some of it re-used. The new house was a rectangular block of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a prominent Yarnton family, refused to conform, but her correction was left to her husband. 35 … John Fordred, a Wesleyan minister from Oxford, applied for a licence for John Preedy's cottage in Yarnton to be used …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). … The church was restored in 1864, when the Chancel seems to have been re-built, the North Aisle was added, and the S. … a late 16th-century moulded frame. Inside the building are some original moulded ceiling-beams. The Outbuilding, W. of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… are, the Yarrow, the Ettrick, and the Tweed, which last in some parts forms the northern boundary. The Yarrow has its … the demise of Colonel Russell. Soon after he had been appointed sheriff of Selkirkshire, while resident here, he is … of 600 persons, and the seats are all free. The members of the Free Church have a place of worship. There are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… YARWELL (Fig. 218) Yarwell is a parish of 490 hectares on the W. of the R. Nene. It has always been a chapelry of … regarded as part of Yarwell until it was transferred to Nassington in 1869. By the late 15th century the manor had … early 17th-century, has a wing of c. 1800 on the E. and some later outshuts. The original range has parapeted gables …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Yarwell 57 YARWELL (OS 1:10000 a TL 09 NW, b TL 09 NE) The parish, covering some 760 hectares, lies E. of the R. Nene, between 40 ft. and … No other details are known. From the field immediately to the W. a complete Roman pot and some Iron Age sherds have …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish. 62 As the population fell sharply in the 1880s 63 some were demolished; in 1885 there were only two cottages at … relict Lucy Tanner, his son J. A. C. Tanner, and other members of his family to trustees of Charles Harris (d. 1871) … and jury; a tithingman, a constable, and a hayward were appointed, matters presented included breaches of custom in …