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A History of the County of Oxford
… by Henry II. The borough was created within Bladon parish and its church remained a chapel of ease, although rarely … rector, Edward Evans, although he was probably the noted Oxford university preacher of that name. 86 On some days … Dr. John Prideaux, rector 1625-41, although resident in Oxford where he was regius professor of divinity, 88 preached …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old Woodstock river crossing. 90 The … houses on Park Street, High Street, Market Street, and Oxford Street as far north as the point where it turns west. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the park and household is … at Green, Richard Marden, and the hospital of St. John, Oxford, owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The … interests in London, Bristol, Gloucester, Hereford, Oxford, and Aylesbury, and he endowed a chantry at Woodstock …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a … Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property in Oxford Street (now nos. 8-12), 89 and the school probably … partly for the use of the school, 90 took over the Oxford Street houses and a rent charge of £8 a year from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … coins were found near the church in 1755 and an urn near Oxford Street in 1810. 11 The underlying rock is Oolitic … probably altered in the 13th century when the east side of Oxford Street was laid out. 18 In the 1580s there was a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … 32, included the fair, two mills, and a detached meadow in Oxford which had long been accounted for by Woodstock's … Street, and Walker, the duke's agent and town clerk of Oxford, lived at Hensington House. In the 16th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Overview WOODSTOCK lies 8 miles (12 km.) north-west of Oxford on the river Glyme close to the east side of Blenheim Park. 1 The borough and market town, called formally New Woodstock until the 19th … century, was founded in the 12th century in Bladon parish and remained ecclesiastically dependent on Bladon thereafter. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to have been residents … down. Lovelace temporarily withdrew his horse races to Oxford and by 1681 his influence, despite entertaining 'the … since Dawkins threatened to inconvenience the earl at Oxford. 47 Later in 1734 the duchess contrived to avoid a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Whateley preached at Woodstock in the late 1660s, 55 and in 1672 Edward Miles and William Metcalfe applied for … no dissenters were reported. In 1794 James Hinton, the Oxford Baptist, held a meeting in Thomas Boulton's house opposite the Marlborough Arms in Oxford Street, registered in that year; mobs, including …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxfordshire. 50 In 1625 three women recusants were fined, and one or two recusants were reported from time to time … 52 when Woodstock formed part of the parish of St. Gregory and St. Augustine, Oxford, there were c. 60 Roman Catholics; some attended the …