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A History of the County of Oxford
… prominent in town affairs, the Batts running a private lunatic asylum on High Street from 1823 to 1857. 98 A bank founded in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to 1857 later members of the Batt family ran a private lunatic asylum in Witney at No. 33 High Street (Field House). Inmates … and both men and women until 1854, though by then the asylum catered chiefly for middleclass women. Conditions were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… here, in 1568, of Mary, Queen of Scots, when she sought an asylum in England, after her escape from the field of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… being exempted from all civil jurisdiction, rendered it an asylum for robbers and other malefactors, who became the pest …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was regarded as a national calamity, was the work of a lunatic, who had secreted himself in the cathedral, after the … under Cadwallo, and, accompanied by Ethelburga, found an asylum in the kingdom of Kent. During his absence the … relief, and is liberally supported by subscription. The Lunatic Asylum, without Bootham Bar, was established in 1774, …