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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials … social tensions within the town, marked by recurrent bread riots and by steady worsening of relations between masters … abandoned against a backdrop of war, recession, and local unrest. An accompanying journeymen's feast was ended slightly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … within their estates, including freedom from toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to … 196 reflecting the high bread prices which prompted local riots that year. 197 By 18012 it was over 3,000, around 27 s. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was … and spendthrift miners, and in 1831 during the wages riots Cameron was active on behalf of the magistracy and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was … in 1802 when the introduction of shearing machines led to unrest among the employees. 8 The old mill building was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The … is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to … being used as a saw-pit. 124 There seems to have been some unrest caused by poverty in the early 19th century: during …
A History of the County of Essex
… the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while restricting the amount of arable … was densely wooded. 1 Monkhams was originally all wood, and there also pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had … of the woodland of his manor, 64 an action that led to riots. 65 At Monkhams c. 1640 woodland extended as far south …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is denoted by 13th-century surnames 67 such as … the fall in prices, profits, and wages. 44 Industrial unrest was evident by 1830 when two glovers, James Hedges and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … Rural distress in the town's hinterland provoked food riots at Woodstock in 1766 and tension over bread supply in … over local disturbances. 9 In 1830 there was industrial unrest among the town's glovers and in 1831 a group deported …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the burgesses from the outset, in addition to their … eastern boundary with Hensington manor, he instigated riots; when his party failed in the mayoral election of 1581 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The … provided two M.P.s. Returns were usually made by the mayor and commonalty, implying that the franchise, as in mayoral …