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A History of the County of Oxford
… Raulin and later, with the borough rents, to the town bailiffs, making subsequent fluctuations in the town's … mid 16th century. In the late 15th century successive town bailiffs refused to pay the ancient rent for market and fair …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… subject to tolls and was under the control of the town bailiffs. 154 Most Corn Street houses mentioned in the Middle … for small labourers' or weavers' cottages. In 1577 the bailiffs allowed a broadweaver to build a cottage in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ashcombe of Curbridge, who that year left 50 to the town bailiffs for building a 'house over and about the cross of … on the north, which thereafter belonged to the town bailiffs 223 and whose roof appears to be 16th-century. From … town hall chamber was usually leased with or without the bailiffs' house, reserving the right to ring the bell and to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… townsmen remained answerable to the bishop. The town bailiffs accounted to him throughout the Middle Ages for … holding their own court before their own freely elected bailiffs, freedom from attendance at the bishop's court … 1220 the burgesses annually elected two 'reeves' (called bailiffs from the early 15th century), 13 and where by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as an occasional residence and as accommodation for their bailiffs and other officers throughout the Middle Ages. 32 … Hall, 17; above, intro. (social life: Middle Ages). For bailiffs' and other officers' chambers, below. Allen, Mount …
A History of the County of Oxford
… accounts. 19 A few years later two Quakers served as town bailiffs. 20 The spirit of cooperation was evident in early …
A History of the County of Essex
… man wharfage for wine unloaded there, although the bailiffs of Colchester claimed that that preju- diced their …
A History of the County of Oxford
… wished to common there. 16 In 1493, however, the mayor and bailiffs of Oxford seized 10 cattle which William Thornbury …