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A History of the County of Oxford
… area: the parish boundary crossed the county boundary, and was probably established before it. 1 The first certain … Bishop of Lincoln had granted Banbury church to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln 3 and it became a prebendal church. Prebendaries held the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… beyond the Saltway, were the fields of Wickham (962 a.) and in the north the fields of Hardwick (572 a.). The rest of … records mention, in addition to the occupations above, shoemakers (1401 and 1415), 248 a mercer (1441), 249 spicers … corresponds exactly to the rise in Northampton of a shoemaking industry which served more than the immediate …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education. Schoolmasters were mentioned in 1345, 1400, and 14302. 1 It has been possible, almost continuously since … Hospital school, founded at the end of the 15th century and closed in the late 17th or early 18th century, which is … with the school that the mayor went in 1635 to Oxford and Gloucester, 'about the schoolmaster'. 7 In the 18th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury Introduction BANBURY Origins and Growth of the Town, p. 18. Buildings, p. 29. Castle, p. 39. Manors and other Estates, p. 42. Economic History, p. 49. Local … Cherwell, close to the meeting point of three counties, and the centre of an area which from its considerable …
A History of the County of Oxford
… outline that which continued for the next two hundred and fifty years, until the break-up of the estate in the 15th and 16th centuries. 1 The bishop governed the estate through … castleguard, the borough, with its three-weekly portmoot and also a manorial court, and finally a number of estates …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury Origins and growth of the town Origins and Growth of the Town. By 1086 Banbury was one of the … in Domesday Book there is no mention of a borough there and the lesser tenants of the estate were villani and homines …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (Bucks.), one of the petitioners for the first charter, and he was succeeded by his brother John. 2 Sir Francis … Hanwell was member for most of the reign of Elizabeth I, 4 and a Cope of Hanwell or a Fiennes of Broughton (or one of … summoned from Banbury to the parliaments of 1653, 1654, and 1656 but Nathaniel Fiennes represented Banbury throughout …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… (North) Banff BANFF, a sea-port, burgh, market-town, and parish, in the county of Banff, of which it is the chief … its name from the district in which it is situated, and which obtained the appellation of Boyn from the Gaelic, … of which there are six, namely, the hammermen, wrights, shoemakers, tailors, coopers, and weavers, who all claim …
A History of the County of Sussex
… comprising 31 a. were added to Yapton between 1882 and 1891, so that in 1971 Barnham had 340 ha. (841 a.). 2 The eastern tip of the parish and a salient of Barnham into Yapton in the south-east were transferred to that parish in 1985, and at the same date a block of land comprising parts of …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Barnsley lies 6.5 km. north-east of Cirencester and is irregular in shape, extending from Ready Token at the junction of the Welsh way and Akeman Street on the south-east to the valley of the … represented in the village in succeeding centuries. Shoemakers were also recorded regularly from the 1770s. 161 …