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A History of the County of Oxford
… To 1660 A school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, … about 1375, though his surname was probably hereditary. 2 In the early 16th century a chantry priest evidently taught … it with 50 a year charged on land at Longworth (then Berks.). His widow Mary secured an Act in 1663 governing its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a … west Oxfordshire, its population rising from under 4,000 in the 1930s to over 20,000 by the end of the 20th century. 2 … and London, as well as on roads southwards to Abingdon (Berks.) and Southampton. Trade-links with Southampton were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 … manorial and (possibly) town quarries were recorded in 1479. 5 The master mason Thomas of Witney, who worked at … Plummer, Witney Blanket Ind. 178; W. H. Summers, Hist. Berks., S. Bucks. and S. Oxon Congregational Churches (1905), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… being forbidden entry into the bishop's manors except in connection with Crown pleas. 1 In 1284 the bishop procured excommunication against unnamed … 'Three Oxon. Architects', Oxoniensia, 35 (1970), 69; Berks. RO, D/EBt F17/3, bylaws of new burial ground (among …
A History of the County of Oxford
… MANOR AND MANOR HOUSE ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his … with Winchester cathedral chapter having been settled in their favour in 1284. 3 From the 16th century the manor … Wit. 32. PRO, SP 28/213, f. 33. Ibid. C 54/3418, mm. 3941. Berks. RO, D/ELl F18/1; Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. d 215, f. 115. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the existing building. Possibly that work was … a minster at Witney, and before the estate was assembled in possibly the mid 10th century the area may have been … payment from the mason, Humphrey Smith of Abingdon (then Berks.), because it was 'not raised to its former altitude'. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant feature of the town from the late 17th … of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local Lollardy: in the 1520s … Mather, W. H. Summers, Hist. Congregational Churches in Berks., S. Oxon. and S. Bucks. Assoc. (1905), 270; DNB s.v. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ROMAN CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong recusant tradition in the town either then or later. 1 In 1549 Oxfordshire … priests from Oxford and, later, from Buckland (then Berks.). 11 An oratory served by a visiting priest from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 … 869 a. 2 r. 19 p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 10.; net income, 400; patron, the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of … ravine" or "dell." The town occupies a gentle eminence, in an extensive valley inclosed by lofty hills, which … union of Bradfield, hundred of Theale, county of Berks; containing 112 inhabitants, and comprising 500 a. 3 r. …