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A History of the County of Sussex
… between five and sixteen times as many parishioners in agricultural as in non-agricultural occupations. 63 There was a corn and cattle …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the borough chamberlains and later the church-wardens were making an annual payment to the Bladon churchwardens, usually … provided a rectory house in Woodstock at his own cost, making the corporation trustees of the freehold. 52 The site, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and fairs in that year was followed by an Act in 1576 making Woodstock a staple town. George Whitton, alderman and … maltsters, and braziers. 49 Among 17th-century craftsmen making wills but failing to become councillors were builders, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… influenced the town's later history. 71 An Act of 1576 making Woodstock a staple town briefly stimulated the local … Liberals and Methodists were prominent in the local agricultural trade union movement, 16 and in the 1890s a … Market Place, was particularly prominent. 74 The Woodstock Agricultural and Horticultural Association, formed in 1858 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… officers, requiring all to swear the statutory oaths, and making future appointments of high stewards, recorders, and … 1580 the number of common councillors was fixed at 20, 17 making up a council which included perhaps a third of the … the portmoot. 99 He was responsible for serving summonses, making arrests, and maintaining the prison and punitive …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1727, assuring the duchess of continued support while making play of his imminent arrest for debt, and John Tasker, … and tradesmen of the Liberals' association with the agricultural labourers' union and Joseph Arch. 32 Lord …