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A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits of justice 1 and, from the 13th century at least, held a view of … grazing on the common. As well as constables one or two bread- and ale-tasters were usually elected. The number of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Church CHURCH. There was a church in 1086, 77 and by the mid 1220s the benefice was a rectory. 78 From 1958 … in plurality with Albourne, 79 and in 1978 it became part of the united benefice of Henfield with Shermanbury and … a result he was arrested for trespass and indicted at the assizes by her son Jacob. In another episode Cooper caused …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation … The site bore an annual rent charge of 6 s. 8 d. for a bread charity founded by William Cornwell, baker, in 1552. 99 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to those founded in the chantry house on the north side of the church by Thomas Croft (d. 1488). 77 In 1551 the corporation bought the chantry house and undertook to use it for three or four almsmen, but the … Street with 6 s. 8 d. to be distributed to the poor in bread on Good Friday. 87 The rent charge was confirmed in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was … by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … distinct from the ½ d. payments made by communicants for bread and wine in the 17th century and early 18th. 50 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Development of the town Development of the town New Woodstock developed … marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … the park walls. There were bars at the town's entrances. Ale Bar gate on the Oxford road, recorded in 1504, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … 34 The borough charter of 1453 granted the assize of bread and of ale to the mayor, and the charter of 1565 … with portmoot records in ibid. 77/12, 78/13. For assizes of 1604 and 1626 see E. McArthur, 'Prices at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and clothing 8 children, £10 on apprenticing, and c. £8 on bread and doles; the children were to attend church for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … provoked food riots at Woodstock in 1766 and tension over bread supply in 1795. 6 In 1798 the corporation considered …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … judicial precepts, and the mayor was to hold the assize of bread and of ale without interference from royal officers. … the mayor was expected to attend the Lent and Summer assizes in Oxford, but was usually represented by the town …