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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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (1774-1857), whose father Charles was the duke's house steward in the 1760s, later a schoolmaster in Old Woodstock, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… he embarrassed both the corporation and Sir Henry Lee, steward of the manor, to whom the farm was then paid and with … town clerk, Edmund Hiorne, and the appointment as high steward of Lt.-Gen. Charles Fleetwood in 1655, while several … many of them composed with the approval of the high steward or other influential outsiders. In 1681 the council …
A History of the County of Oxford
… seat was controlled by Sir Leonard Chamberlain (d. 1561), steward of the manor and M.P. for the county, and in 1553 and … the death of Francis Chamberlain in 1570 his successors as steward, Thomas Peniston and from 1573 Sir Henry Lee (d. … (Northants.). 99 Sir Henry Lee became the borough's high steward before 1580 1 and Woodstock was content thereafter to …