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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town … let to non-paupers at commercial rents and the income used for charitable purposes. The rebuilding was financed chiefly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1621, while a small clothier in 1638 had a close of wheat worth 6 and malt worth 1 5 s., and in 1719 the wealthy … animals remained a feature of the town. 9 The demand for agricultural land was evidently recognized, a land agent … cottages were built in the 16th century had little land for gardening. 11 By the 1830s, however, allotments for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lintel and tie-beam ends which were originally covered for their better protection, reflects 20th-century taste. … Corn Returns Office in 1851. Brick was probably used for chimneys and flues from the late 16th century (the likely … had fuller's earth in his high chamber and two quarters of wheat in the hall chamber, while a mercer's hall-chamber in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… twice-yearly tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships following the borough's foundation. 4 … and (under legislation of 1563 and 1572) compulsory levies, variously administered by the town bailiffs, … and, presumably, for poor rates, though no poor-rate levies were recorded. 183 Fines levied in the borough court …
A History of the County of Essex
… small and insignificant. In 1327 its assessment for subsidy was one of the lowest of the parishes in Lexden … 19 By 1524, however, the number of persons assessed for subsidy was the third highest in Lexden hundred, 20 … half a plough team. In the early 14th century oats, rye, wheat, and barley, and a few peas and beans were grown. Oats …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 … of the river, had become dangerous, and there were demands for a bridge. 2 A temporary bridge, opened by George V in … 8 In 1584 the lord of Wivenhoe manor was entitled to levies on ships for anchorage in the port, driftwood, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… higher. 50 In the 16th century bequests were often made for relieving the poor, 51 and weekly collections are recorded for poor relief from 1577; regular cash payments and relief … they be set to work. 54 In 1726 Nicholas Corsellis granted for the use of the poor a cottage lying between Wivenhoe …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … of the Duke of Beaufort: the tithes have been commuted for 327. 12.; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe … 251 acres woodland; the soil is clay, producing excellent wheat, and there is some very fine oak-timber. Stone is …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. 1 There afterwards Warner … which Roger had a Charter of Free Warren the same year for Wallaton and Cossale in this County, Eyum and Riselle in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is described below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been … in 1358 may have been part of the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the … the 19th century is not known, but in 1592 a tenant had wheat in King's Bush furlong and barley at Fuller's Well, …