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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its … for chiefly by the inclusion of Leonard Chamberlain, steward of the manor and park, who in 1547 paid as much as 8 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is supported in part by other … (1774-1857), whose father Charles was the duke's house steward in the 1760s, later a schoolmaster in Old Woodstock, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by … he embarrassed both the corporation and Sir Henry Lee, steward of the manor, to whom the farm was then paid and with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 86 all seem to have been residents and two were members of the prominent Bennet family. 87 The borough charter of 1453 freed Woodstock from the burden … seat was controlled by Sir Leonard Chamberlain (d. 1561), steward of the manor and M.P. for the county, and in 1553 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Protestant nonconformity Protestant Nonconformity The Presbyterian Thomas Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William … his house for Wesleyan meetings in 1819 and remained steward of the chapel in 1851. 68 A chapel was built in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made from the time of the foundation of Tintern Abbey. 17 No dole was made after 1546 when John Conway, steward of Henry, Earl of Worcester, obtained a lease of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. northwest … £90. Rents and a salary, perhaps as rent collector or steward, brought a total income of £340. 2 AGRICULTURE …
A History of the County of Oxford
… some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river Cherwell, on the north by its tributary the Swere, … century 'foreign views', held by the duke of Marlborough's steward and sometimes confused with the manorial courts, 32 …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Bretforton. Ref.110 BA1/1/115/27 (1671) Wigorn [com?] To the right worshippfull his majesties justices of the peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, … of the said manor were [illegible] from the said court the steward and [illegible] others with [illegible] [...ld?] …