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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… one of the manors given to the monastery of St. Swithin at Winchester, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, by Bishop … from the reputed fiery ordeal which she underwent in Winchester cathedral. In the reign of Edward II., solemn … by the Duke of Marlborough, as lessee under the Bishop of Winchester. The powers of the county debt-court of Witney, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 21 years. 38 Payment ceased thereafter. Thomas, bishop of Winchester ( presumably Thomas Cooper (158494) or Thomas …
A History of the County of Oxford
… including income from fairs and borough courts; Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', 224. For agric. in the townships, below, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… are by A. Crossley. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/4, 78. Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', 302, 245. e.g. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/22. e.g. Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', 245; Hants RO, 11M59/B1/37, 39, 44, 52, 57. Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', App. V; cf. Bampton Hund. R. 91 sqq. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… blanket ind.). Witney Ct. Bks. pp. lxilxii, lxviiilxix; B. Winchester, Tudor Family Portrait (1955), 216, 219; Cal. Pat. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and hiring-fairs. The Middle Ages In 1202 the bishop of Winchester was granted an annual fair at Witney, held on … trade and ind.). Hants RO, 11M59/B1/7 sqq; Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', 678. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/40, m. 8d; Winch. PR 13012, ed. Page, 1446; Hyde, 'Winchester Manors', 6870. Cal. Pat. 131721, 3689; for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and selds, suggest active involvement by the bishop of Winchester as lord, interrupted only by untypical leasing of … 1300), an influential master mason who later worked at Winchester under the bishop's patronage. 17 Other inhabitants … to export wool, though he seems to have been acting for a Winchester merchant. 77 Witney men mentioned at Hereford and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century … in the first surviving account roll of the bishop of Winchester. 100 No borough charter survives, however, and … the mid 12th century, it was preceded by the bishop of Winchester's stone-built and moated manor house (the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … who worked at Westminster in 12923 and at Exeter and Winchester a little later, was presumably a native of the … The Middle Ages to the Reformation Medieval bishops of Winchester were wealthy and politically influential …
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 … During the Middle Ages franchises enjoyed by the bishop of Winchester as lord of Witney manor included the right to … may preserve memory of a gibbet, though bishops of Winchester are not known to have had right of gallows at …