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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The Westmorland estate appears to have been spending less money on its houses in the village during the 19th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Brooks, lessee from c. 1769, added a bow window. 69 The Money family bought the lease in 1808 70 and manufactured … Sophia (d. 1859) left the house to the corporation as a charity, but her wishes seem not to have been fulfilled. 14 … site bore an annual rent charge of 6 s. 8 d. for a bread charity founded by William Cornwell, baker, in 1552. 99 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… worth a total of £3 4 s. 8 d. was distributed. 94 Major's charity lapsed in 1783 and Bellinger's in 1795, and with … in 1828. 95 In 1839 it was agreed to assign the baking of charity bread for the year to the town's bakers in … for loans suggests further losses, and thereafter the money seems to have been invested and the interest usually …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as trustee, treating the rectory house as a municipal charity. Confusion arose after a Scheme of 1909 made the … churchwardens of Woodstock trustees of the rectory house charity, and in 1949 the corporation's ancient trusteeship … by the later 16th century. 65 Margery Nurse (d. 1609) left money for four sermons, all of which seem to have been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… houses in Market Place, later the endowment of a Bicester charity. 4 A Northampton dyer owned a High Street shop in … principal late 18th-century manufacturers were the Cross, Money, Eldridge, and Dewsnap families. 31 In 1788 Richard Cross, Knap Money, and Joseph Dewsnap were convicted for evading stamp …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock had an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame … preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's relict Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property in Oxford Street (now nos. … by will left £ 4 a year for the school out of a larger charity payable by the Skinners' Company of London. 93 Other …
A History of the County of Oxford
… expansion, and in 1635 Woodstock's assessment for ship money was only �20, compared with Chipping Norton's �30 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… only recorded council business was the distribution of a charity. In February 1838, on the initiative of the Revd. … venison in return. 39 Sir Thomas Spencer (d. 1622) gave a charity, and his grandson paid for the defence of the charter … the purchase of property in 1865, 96 and from the 1860s money was raised on mortgage. The chamberlains were in debt …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 70 negotiated for councillors' votes with offers of money and employment. He noted that the townsmen's poverty … and Lord Blandford would agree rather than try to 'screw money out of the transaction'. 12 Thus in 1832 and 1835 Lord … Baptist minister John Freer, the glove manufacturers H. K. Money and J. N. Godden, and the upholsterer John Parker. 28 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… for the poor and 2 s. to the churchwardens in 1595. 24 The charity to the poor was distributed in bread on Good Friday … the difficulty of carrying out the donor's intention the money was apparently lent to anyone offering security and by … again be applied for the benefit of the poor. 27 The charity could not be traced in 1969. A bread charity of £1 a …