Shifford: Charities for the poor

A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1996.

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'Shifford: Charities for the poor', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One), (London, 1996) pp. 110. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol13/p110b [accessed 19 March 2024]

CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.

Robert Veysey, by will proved 1666, left £10 for a yearly dole to 8 poor of Shifford and Chimney. (fn. 1) William Farr of Brighthampton, by will proved 1691, left £5 at interest to the poor of Shifford, (fn. 2) and Thomas Horde, by will proved 1716, gave a £6 rent charge and £10 for apprenticing 2 boys or girls. (fn. 3) All were lost by 1787. (fn. 4) A bequest by E. W. Harcourt (d. 1891) to Shifford chapelry was divided in 1892 between Old and New Shifford (£12), Chimney (£2), and Brighthampton (£11). (fn. 5)

Footnotes

  • 1. P.R.O., PROB 11/322, f. 363v.
  • 2. Ibid. PROB 11/403, f. 184v.
  • 3. Ibid. PROB 11/551, ff. 252v.-253.
  • 4. Char. Don. 970-1.
  • 5. Shifford vestry and P.C.C. mins. 1859-1976 (in custody of vicar and par. officers), 16 May 1892.