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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton parish church stands by the presumed site of Ditton Valence manor house, 11 whose lords probably founded it. Droard son of Cade gave it to Thetford priory (Norf.) in the early 12th … of stones carved with angels, drapery, and emblems of mortality lies northeast of the church. During the 19th …
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 … their arrangement was partly topographical, as was that of the late 18th-century land tax assessments and the census returns of 1841-81. 51 The descent of many sites may therefore be …
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 … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts of smith, ironmonger, and plumber, the textile crafts of …
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 … supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his … 18 baptisms and c. 16 burials; years of particularly heavy mortality were 1655 and 1708, when burials exceeded 30. 35 …
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 one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose … Even so extraordinary expenses, such as for parliamentary bills and establishing the wool market in the 1570s and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of … £ 1,325 given by the Marlboroughs to settle freemen's bills to pass through his accounts as if government funds, so … Cary corresp. is in P.R.O., C 104/109. P.R.O., C 104/109, bills of 1680; Boro. Mun. 76/2, Sept. 1680. Hist. Parl., …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve … her, was about a moneth sithence forceiblie turned out of an out howse of Thomas Sales in Odingley wherein she had byn almost three …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… (1612) To the righte worshipfull his majesties [illegible] of the peace for the countie of Worcester The humble peticion of Elizabethe Tommes widdowe. Moste humblie beseecheth your …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1613 The inhabitants of Bayton. Ref.110 BA1/1/20/58 (1613) To the right worshippfull the Kinges majesties justices of peace in the countye of Worcester. May yt please your worshipps, that whereas at …