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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 2,100 acres, occupies a shallow dry valley on the E. bank of the R. Allen; it is entirely on Chalk, between 100 ft. and … devices worked in brick, including stepped crosses, the letters W and T, and frets. In the lower storey the two S. … heads and a label with original shield-stops bearing the letters W and R, probably for William Rolle, rector 150521, …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham … take an oath of allegiance of them, and to deliver to them letters patent of pardon; Cal. Pat. R., 1486, pp. 119, 133. … land, 40 acres pasture in Witherslake and so seised he by letters patent dated at Westminster 25 February, 4 Henry VII …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 John Scolemaster of Witney was mentioned about 1375, though his surname was …
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 borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century …
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 … Banks, Nancy, Nancy: the story of Ann Bolton (1984), 23; Letters of John Wesley, ed. J. Telford (1931), v. 126. Witney … Blenheim Mun., shelf C1, box of 18th and 19th-cent. pps., letters 15 Oct. and 14 Dec. 1849; CE Rec. Centre, file 20325, …
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
… 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 12th-century type high up in the nave …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the … Secker's Corresp. 2501. Banks, Nancy, Nancy, 836; Letters of John Wesley, ed. J. Telford (1931), v. 126; viii, … refs. s.v. Witney, Bolton; above, intro. (eccl. bldgs). Letters of John Wesley, ed. Telford, vi. 97, 136, 297; vii. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 miles (W.) from …
Survey of London
… DUKE'S ROAD (formerly Woburn Buildings) From the east side of Woburn Place, Thomas Cubitt erected a little street of shops which turned at right angles northwards to Euston Road, skirting the churchyard of New St. Pancras Church. Both sections of this street were …