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A History of the County of Oxford
… and stall-rents, seem not always to have mirrored those of the town generally: during the 13th and 16th centuries, both periods of apparent growth and prosperity, market and fair income declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading took place outside the formal market …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Education EDUCATION Provision To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and … was erected at the south-west end of Church Green in 1660 by the wealthy London grocer Henry Box, related to a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … first appeared in Witney with the grammar school of 1660. 29 No. 2 Market Square, on an extremely prominent site, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most franchises seem to have … through the courts baron and a twice-yearly tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The estate was … estate given by Abingdon abbey to Brihthelm, bishop of Wells. 1 The Crown recovered the Witney estate before … not later. 14 The bishopric's estates were restored in 1660, and in 1661 both manor and borough were let to Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems … likely, the earliest unequivocal evidence is the survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early … Ralph Brideoake being re-presented by Charles II in 1660. 18 In the 1670s the king contested the patronage …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th century, reflected the … Witney people attended conventicles in Bampton in 1660: Mansfield Coll. Libr., Oxford, Sam. Birch's 'Bk. of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, contained two settlements, Upper and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Site and remains of Godstow abbey Site and remains of Godstow abbey Godstow abbey was built on an island between … is based mainly on drawings, of doubtful accuracy, made in 1660 and 1718 and on descriptions of 1666 and 1718. 40 The …