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A History of the County of Oxford
… was at Woodstock Park, which he visited regularly for love of Rosamund Clifford; he therefore provided land outside the … supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his … 'Marketing', 525. Boro. Mun. 89, pp. 133-4; Ibid. printed constitution; Blenheim Mun., shelf G 1, box 2, accts. to c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a borough in the early 14th century. 78 The development of self-government was only gradual, for the vill was merely … to the chapelwardens of Woodstock which marked the formal constitution of the town's principal chantry, and the new … 18 In the later 16th century the council defined the constitution more closely in a series of bylaws. 19 The …
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 of representation 88 but in 1553 the borough again provided …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was a registered meeting, probably Baptist, at the house of Samuel Wise, an Old Woodstock farmer, but in 1738 the … soldiers, broke up the meeting and stoned Hinton out of town as a Jacobin. Hinton tried again in 1819 and was … with 12 members, and a chapel built on the site of a stable in High Street. 61 The Baptists opened a Sunday …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; containing 71 inhabitants. Woolpit (St. Mary) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the western boundary passed through the royal forest of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) To the right worshipfull the justices of the peace at a sessions holden at Worcester the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of meadow, pasture wood two leu. long, three quar. broad. In the time of Edward the confessour this was valued at 3l. when the …