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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably established when the … to reside the house was to be let and the rent applied to poor relief. 55 The house was let for several years from 1696 …
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 … was monopolized by victuallers 'to the utter decay of the poor'. 31 In 1608 an inquiry into the dearth of grain named …
A History of the County of Oxford
… dame schools; it was a popular place for boarding schools, of which some took day pupils. The rector, although a keen … and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of education'. 85 Continued failure to respond to national … almost uniquely lacking in educational provision for the poor. 86 The opening of an infants' school in 1840 and, …
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 … were complaints, perhaps exaggerated, that the town was poor, dependent entirely on markets and fairs, and lacking …
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 … 100, of which 20 was for the school and the rest for the poor and for disabled soldiers. 28 A confirmation of the … 1838 the crier was paid 4 and provided with a uniform. 72 Overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, and …
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 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden of representation 88 … play of his imminent arrest for debt, and John Tasker, 'poor and drunk'. 71 Costs grew with the size of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was a registered meeting, probably Baptist, at the house of Samuel Wise, an Old Woodstock farmer, but in 1738 the … soldiers, broke up the meeting and stoned Hinton out of town as a Jacobin. Hinton tried again in 1819 and was … Ch. Mag. (1863), 329; above, Local Govt., Par. Govt. and Poor Relief; below, Educ. Oxf. Chron. 31 May 1851; 25 Apr., 8 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made from the time of the foundation of Tintern Abbey. 17 No dole was made after …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for threshing were provided by Tidenham tenants of the lordship of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted of eight oxen and two other draught animals, and wheat, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Clayton established a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of the charity … 111-13. G.D.R. Woolaston terriers, charitable gifts, 1683. Overseers' acct. bk. 1773-94. 19th Rep. Com. Char. 113; Glos. …