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A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Education EDUCATION Robert Veysey of Chimney, by … proved 1635, left £200 to endow a free school at Bampton, and another £100 to erect a stone building 'with ashlar … 9 to 14, but closed in the later 1850s. 70 G. H. Drewe's St. Mary's College, opened in Weald Manor in 1859 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Introduction BAMPTON AND WEALD THE townships of … Cottage, nearby, was the site of the medieval chapel of St. Andrew 'of Beme', so called by 1317; an early … with the Virgin, and in 1886 it was called Good Queen Anne's well. 21 Stonework survived in the mid 19th century, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Manors and castle MANORS AND CASTLE Until the late … thirds of his demesne tithes of Bampton to the chapel of St. George in Oxford castle, from which they passed to Osney … Percival Smallpage (d. 1616); in 1617 Percival's sister Anne Smallpage and others sold it under earlier agreements to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Other estates OTHER ESTATES. Land and a fishery in Weald granted to Osney abbey c. 1170 descended with the abbey's estate in Lew, and are treated below. 15 The Hospitallers held an estate in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a compact block of land, bounded on part of the north and much of the east by the river Windrush, on the south by the river Thames, and on part of the south-west by the river Leach. From an … in Oxfordshire and in Bampton hundred. Widford, owned by St. Oswald's priory in Gloucester, belonged in 1086 to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings. The castle, manor-house, vicarages, gaol, and other public buildings, as well as the domestic buildings … are described elsewhere in this volume. The Hospital of St. John the Baptist, founded early in the 13th century, 1 … Edward's brother Richard (d. 1657) and his wife Anne. 32 The original plan of the house is very difficult to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rate of 4 d. a week. 1 In 1448 the newly founded guild of St. Mary was authorized to hold property worth 100 marks a year for the support of three chaplains and eight poor persons dwelling in the almshouse. 2 In 1535 6 … gave the interest of 100 to be disposed of annually on St. Thomas's Day among the poor of Banbury, and the interest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… area: the parish boundary crossed the county boundary, and was probably established before it. 1 The first certain … a great barn and several other properties, one of which (St. Sunday's) 17 was said to be formerly the site of the … in dues. 33 The living was augmented by grants from Queen Anne's Bounty to meet private benefactions in 1736, 1804, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… beyond the Saltway, were the fields of Wickham (962 a.) and in the north the fields of Hardwick (572 a.). The rest of … fairs a year, with court of pie powder, on the feasts of St. Peter ad Vincula and St. Luke and the eve and morrow of … 4/1. For the descent of the lease see p. 43. E 134/10 & 11 Anne, Hil. no. 14. O.R.O., land tax assess. Bodl. Banbury …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education. Schoolmasters were mentioned in 1345, 1400, and 14302. 1 It has been possible, almost continuously since … a religious body. The earliest known school in Banbury was St. John's Hospital school, founded at the end of the 15th … Jane Hussey, and 20 from Martha Lane in 1721, 200 from Anne North in 1722, and 40 from the Revd. Mr. Fletcher in …