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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bampton - Bardsea Bampton (St. Michael) BAMPTON ( St. Michael), a market-town and parish, in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Bampton, Collumpton and N. … of the family of Cogan, is still discernible on a mount. John de Bampton, a Carmelite monk, and the first who read …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings BUILDINGS. 46 A cruck-framed cottage north of the churchyard was mentioned in 1440, 47 and the discovery of … staircases, and was remodelled c. 1800 for the lawyer John Mander (d. 1809). 90 A canted bay window was added on … Prospect House to the north and Waterloo House (formerly St. Oswald) to the south were built in the earlier 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. 79 George Thompson, by will … 84 c. 12 a. were bought c. 1687 using the bequests of John Palmer (£100 to the poor of Bampton and Weald by will … Coxeter (£10 for apprenticing to masters outside the parish, by will proved 1683), Dorothy Loder (£300 to set the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Churches CHURCHES. Bampton was the site of a late Anglo-Saxon minster whose extensive … town at the Beam. Burials near the medieval chapel of St. Andrew on the site of Beam Cottage are known only from … reflected in the double dedication to St. Mary and St. John the Baptist recorded in 1317, though if the chapel …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Weald Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. AGRICULTURE. In the mid 10th century Bampton formed part of a large unitary … and parsimonious landowners impeded it until 1812 when John Coventry revived the project, and an Act for inclosing … be removed for 3 weeks before and after the feast of St. John the Baptist (24 June) in return for half a quarter …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 'with ashlar work'. 30 Nothing had been done by 1650 when John Palmer, one of the trustees, left a further £100 providing that Veysey's … 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 Bampton and Weald, together c. 4,034 a., 30 … Cottage, nearby, was the site of the medieval chapel of St. Andrew 'of Beme', so called by 1317; an early … 50 and some members of the Laundels family. 51 John Walker (fl. 1380), Nicholas Wrenne (fl. 1442) and John …
A History of the County of Oxford
… MANOR COURTS. From 1248 William de Valence, as lord of the manor and hundred of Bampton, claimed return of writs, … pleas of withernam, franchises allegedly held earlier by the counts of Boulogne but challenged by Edward I in 1285. … strays, and felons' goods throughout most of the ancient parish. 13 Courts baron were nominally held every three weeks …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton and Weald Manors and castle MANORS AND CASTLE Until the late Anglo-Saxon period the royal manor of BAMPTON … towards ward of Oxford castle, and was granted in 1196 to John, count of Mortain, and in 1198 to Reginald de Dammartin, … thirds of his demesne tithes of Bampton to the chapel of St. George in Oxford castle, from which they passed to Osney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Weald Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Some vicars in the mid 16th century were associated with the recusant Mores … others included the relatively prosperous comb-maker John Hill, and Edward Bettres or Bettrice, perhaps related to … chiefly prosperous farmers and tradesmen, attended the Baptist meeting at Cote, 16 ministers for which seem to have …