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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1750s rebuilt the former manor house, served as manorial steward for the duke of Marlborough and as clerk to the … probably not coincidentally, agreed to serve as High Steward of the Blanket Company, entertaining the membership … townships, were provided by the duke of Marlborough's steward twice a year in the early 19th century and presumably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff or steward through the courts baron and a twice-yearly tourn or … to fine absentees. In the later 16th century the lord's steward sometimes attended presumably to protect the lord's … 19th century bailiffs nominated their successors to the steward and were by then sworn in at the Quarter Sessions, 49 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the local solicitor James Gray (d. 1791), then deputy steward of the manor court, who seems to have largely rebuilt …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is vested in an alderman, seven capital burgesses, a high steward, recorder, and town-clerk; the alderman, high steward, and recorder are justices of the peace, with …
A History of the County of Essex
… were elected; the court was usually held by the lord's steward, Charles Gray, or his deputy. By that period the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… demesnes to William Charlton (d. 1567), the priory's chief steward at the time of the Dissolution. 90 Thereafter the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from among whom a mayor is annually chosen; a high steward; and a recorder, assisted by seventeen …
A History of the County of Oxford
… High Street In the early 16th century Sir Edmund Hampden, steward of Woodstock manor, had a very large holding east of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… M.P., added a treble and in 1666 Sir Thomas Spencer, high steward, a tenor. 32 Probably the new bells were from the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for chiefly by the inclusion of Leonard Chamberlain, steward of the manor and park, who in 1547 paid as much as 8 … shops and a brewhouse in Old Woodstock. 93 Edmund Hampden, steward of the manor from 1486, and Robert Whitehill, … there may have been pressure, too, from Sir Henry Lee, steward of the manor and sheep farmer on a large scale. 19 …