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A History of the County of Oxford
… influenced the town's later history. 71 An Act of 1576 making Woodstock a staple town briefly stimulated the local …
A History of the County of Oxford
… officers, requiring all to swear the statutory oaths, and making future appointments of high stewards, recorders, and … 1580 the number of common councillors was fixed at 20, 17 making up a council which included perhaps a third of the … the portmoot. 99 He was responsible for serving summonses, making arrests, and maintaining the prison and punitive …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1727, assuring the duchess of continued support while making play of his imminent arrest for debt, and John Tasker, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Accounts (in D.C.R.O.) dated 1608 from Hugh Hoble for making and Snoock and Baskom for setting stone-mullioned …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… In 1870 it was owned by the Gloucestershire Paper Making Co. Ltd., and in 1876 by the trustees of James Randle, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… pottery and coins are thought to have been part of a salt-making industry. 1 Woolavington village forms a grid at the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… background a standing figure (the head missing) apparently making a discourse, perhaps this represents the Disputation …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Grand Junction canal passes through the parish. Lace-making employs some of the inhabitants. The living is a … the establishment. In the eastern part of the town was the rope-yard, a range of building three stories high, and about … A chapel of ease has been erected on the site of the late rope-yard; and near the entrance of the arsenal is a …