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A History of the County of Somerset
… of the manor, which by the 18th century were conterminous with the parish boundaries except in the south, were … a shop and later a dairy were attached and a room opened for a men's club. 97 The Stag's Head remained in business in … in 1554. 20 Sir Henry compounded for his estates and was not finally discharged until 1650. 21 By his will of 1667 he …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as burial dues owed to Eynsham. 45 The benefice was united with Begbroke in 1984, and the joint benefice was in 1986 … £36 a year, derived from small tithes ( £32), payments for morning prayers ( £2), and rent from the vicarage house ( … the income was only c. £40, largely because the vicar was not receiving most of his tithes. 61 Vaughan Thomas, vicar …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of 1517 accused Rewley abbey in 1489 of inclosing 230 a. for pasture and allowing 6 houses and 4 cottages to become … concern may have slowed the process, but it could not reverse it; in 1613 a farm of 2 yardlands still lay only … West mead (75 a.) lie along the north bank of the river with no physical boundaries between them; together they are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… he had difficulty teaching them the catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been … maintenance of the monuments in the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on … who continued until 1875. 58 The school was incorporated with the National Society in 1831. 59 It was attended in 1833 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Close (3 a.), lay north-east of the junction of Sandy Lane with the Woodstock road. The boundaries with Begbroke and its … 43 The route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at … were consulted without success. 45 The tithe awards for Begbroke (1844) and Yarnton (1845) settled the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his villeins at Yarnton, but free tenants owed suit at … financed in the later 16th century and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 … in the granting of allowances, Yarnton vestry seems not to have hesitated to refer cases to them in the early …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and mounds which survived in the later 19th century. 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk … each side of the Avebury road south-east of its junction with the Street. 50 At the north-eastern farmstead Yatesbury … supported by the shire which found that Calne church and not Alwi, as was otherwise stated, had held Yatesbury in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… son of Ponz held of the king 3 hides in YELFORD, together with estates in Westwell and Alwoldsbury (in Alvescot or … as the honor of Hastings, was held by the Hastings family for 5 knights' fees, of which the Oxfordshire portion … Edington, founder of Edington monastery, but Yelford was not mentioned in that or other conveyances of the St. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Culm is found in some parts of it, but it is worked only for home consumption and the supply of the immediate … rectory, rated in the king's books at 5. 3. 9., endowed with 400 private benefaction and 400 royal bounty, and in the … 50 acres. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is not distinguished by any architectural details of importance. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… but without inscription. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. The moated site of an old baronial castle is … to Llwyd, the learned Welsh antiquary, it is identified with the city termed by the Britons Caer Effioc, and, among … respects more than in any resemblance of design, it might not unaptly be compared. Severus died in his palace here in …