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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: the industrial revolution in Witney c.1800-1900 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WITNEY, c. 18001900 During the … absorbed Westell and Son before 1920. Westell served as steward of Witney manor and as solicitor for the vestry, his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of … 1750s rebuilt the former manor house, served as manorial steward for the duke of Marlborough and as clerk to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured … toll, murage, and attendance at shire or hundred courts; the right to distrain and to receive fines and forfeited … and manorial rights were exercised by his bailiff or steward through the courts baron and a twice-yearly tourn or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ('BISHOP'S PALACE') Witney Manor In 969 King Eadgar gave the 30-hide estate of Witney to his 'minister' Aelfhelm. The estate was conterminous with the later manor and parish, … to the local solicitor James Gray (d. 1791), then deputy steward of the manor court, who seems to have largely rebuilt …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 28 miles … is vested in an alderman, seven capital burgesses, a high steward, recorder, and town-clerk; the alderman, high …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT From 1246 the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge … were elected; the court was usually held by the lord's steward, Charles Gray, or his deputy. By that period the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… William Abbot for 21 years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought more of the priory lands at … demesnes to William Charlton (d. 1567), the priory's chief steward at the time of the Dissolution. 90 Thereafter the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodyates, West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, Eastern division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. by W.) from … from among whom a mayor is annually chosen; a high steward; and a recorder, assisted by seventeen …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the … High Street In the early 16th century Sir Edmund Hampden, steward of Woodstock manor, had a very large holding east of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Church Church. The church, of which the south doorway is of the 12th century, was presumably … M.P., added a treble and in 1666 Sir Thomas Spencer, high steward, a tenor. 32 Probably the new bells were from the …