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A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the Wenman family tomb. 307 The following year the Parliamentary general Sir William Waller quartered in Witney … of Witney's broadly liberal politics: in the county elections of 1831 only 23 per cent of electors voted for the … Hurd. 469 Conservatives were consistently returned in parliamentary elections as earlier, though that did not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… increasingly through the parish vestry. Its status as a parliamentary borough was short-lived, 5 and despite its … whether direct or indirect ratepayers, could vote, 102 and elections were sometimes contentious. 103 The board's initial … town council after 1974 and remained in use in 2003. 353 Parliamentary Representation Witney borough was represented …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estates, he paid rent arrears for the manor to a local Parliamentary Committee. 10 In 1649, however, the Parliamentary Trustees sold the manor to William Basill and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as presumably did the dean of Winchester in 15556. 17 The Parliamentary Speaker William Lenthall, briefly lord of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and other tradesmen; inhabitants accused of aiding Parliamentary prisoners in Witney in the 1640s seem to have … War, despite the presence of Puritan lecturers and of some Parliamentary sympathisers, Witney appears to have been …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… leet held annually: it is said to have been formerly a parliamentary borough, and that it was relieved from the … I. visited the Earl of Bedford, the overtures of the parliamentary commissioners were privately submitted to him …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by a fire that continued burning for five days. In the parliamentary war, Charles I., accompanied by his sons, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1644, perhaps because of plague. 25 In September 1644 parliamentary troops from Banbury attempting to arrest 'a … fired the house, it was not completely destroyed and the parliamentary forces were able to occupy it for a time. 27 A …