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A History of the County of Oxford
… A causeway there was repaired by the bailiff of Woodstock manor in 1257 39 and by the 17th century, when it was the … Many leading medieval townsmen held office in the royal manor and park, and court gatherings filled Woodstock with … among the grievances. 77 For much of the Civil War the manor house in Woodstock Park was a royalist stronghold, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the vill was merely one of several 'members' of the royal manor of Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the … may have been townsmen. 80 Then for many years the royal manor was held by successive sheriffs of Oxfordshire, 81 and … revised, and certainly by 1242, the bailiff of Woodstock manor again accounted for the town's issues. 83 In 1250 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and other officers. 2 The name Woodstock (place in the woods) 3 may have applied first to a royal hunting lodge … a royal residence, called the king's houses or Woodstock Manor. 4 By the 12th century it was surrounded by a great …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In the 16th and 17th centuries stewards of the royal manor and park strongly influenced the borough's … by Sir Leonard Chamberlain (d. 1561), steward of the manor and M.P. for the county, and in 1553 and in the two … hardly pressed for another' by the steward of Woodstock manor, Philip Herbert, earl of Montgomery. 5 Whitelocke, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Mun. 90, pp. 249, 261, 285, 289, 291; Marshall, Woodstock Manor, 274-5; United Meth. Free Ch. Mag. (1869), 330. P.R.O., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the registration-district of Glendale. The lord of the manor holds a court leet and baron within three weeks after … are here extremely picturesque, including the hanging woods in Wool-Laviugton Park, and most extensive views over …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a dispute with Llanthony Priory, lords of Alvington manor, it was determined between 1146 and 1169 that Tintern … called rectors. The advowson, which had descended with the manor, was sold in 1872 by Henry, Duke of Beaufort, to S. S. … 43 At Aluredston c. 1255 Roger de Derneford, who held the manor from Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, obtained licence for …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… In 1086 there was no demesne land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held two fisheries in … enlarged in the 1860s by attaching 273 a. of neighbouring woods, 57 but the farm-land of Madgett in 1842 was 134 a. and … on wood-working trades. 75 In the late 19th century the woods of the Marling estate were managed for profit, 76 and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Plusterwine and Brookend, within the area of the medieval manor of 'Aluredston', which comprised the eastern part of … Cone Pill. 29 Plusterwine Farm was certainly part of the manor, although the suggestion that the 19th-century names of … Woolaston Common. 43 The cottagers found employment in the woods, quarries, and coal mines of the Forest of Dean and …