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A History of the County of Oxford
… Eynsham, a former borough and market town and the site of a Benedictine abbey, lies 5 miles north-west of Oxford on … his translation of the Chronicle. 20. Aethelweard, whose son Aethelmaer founded Eynsham abbey, may have known Eynsham, … royal patronage because of its proximity to Woodstock. Henry I excused the abbot's men from service to the royal …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Eynsham Local government Local goverment By grants of Henry I confirmed in 1130 and 1141-2 the abbot acquired … infangthief, and quittance for his lands and men from suit of shire and hundred, except in theft and murdrum. 71 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In 1005 Aethelmaer gave an estate comprising the whole of Eynsham to his newly founded abbey there. After the … to the dower of his relict Mary (d. 1580) who married Henry Grey, earl of Kent, 71 passed in accordance with a settlement to his second son Sir Thomas Stanley (d. 1576) and then in moieties to Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1595 the old and the new building, 46 were on the site of tenements acquired by the Glover family in the 15th … tenement 49 suggests that an earlier occupant was John, son of William Mody, who granted his houses to the abbey … holding, passing from William Glover's son Richard to Henry Busby in 1503, and, apparently through trustees, to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 'meetingers' in the parish, were probably the instigators of Eynsham's first Baptist meetings. In 1808 James Hinton, … themselves from church. 31 On the death in 1884 of Henry Matthew, resident minister for nearly fifty years, the … Algernon-George Percy, duke of Northumberland (d. 1899), son-in-law of the Irvingite Henry Drummond. In 1901 services …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Catholicism In the later 16th century the Stanleys, lords of Eynsham manor, encouraged a recusant group in the parish, including the gentry families of Annesley and Hart and the Days, of whom one, Thomas (d. … listed as recusants, and several families, notably that of Richard Reynolds, gentleman, were persecuted in the earlier …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… 1 In Attune, which Roger de Busli became possessed of after the conquest, were before that change ten manors; … the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, 4 Joh. 7 between Robert, son of Richard, petent, and Thomas de Wilfrinton, and Rametta … Robert de Wolrington, and Margery his wife, quer. and Henry, son of Roger de Bradburne, deforc. the manor of Eton …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… WEALD MOORS EYTON upon the Weald Moors lies 4 km. north of Wellington, 1 km. east of the Wellington-Crudgington road. The civil parish contains … Eyton, the 'father of Shropshire cricket'. 45 He and his son, T. C. Eyton, were moving forces in the short-lived …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… CHURCH. Eyton church was recorded in 1336 when William of Kynardeseye was instituted on the death of the previous … 1562-81 or later. 20 John Manning and his successor Richard Felton, rector 1606-20 or later, 21 both employed … Weald Moors. 25 He was succeeded as rector by his cousin's son, Robert Eyton (1709-18), later archdeacon of Ely, who …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the main feature then, as later, being the high proportion of the land that was in demesne. There were 2 ploughteams on … value had dropped from 33 s. in 1066 to 20 s. at the time of the Domesday survey, and there was potential for a further … to be employed. 43 Before the 19th century the pattern of land use was dominated by the division between the higher, …