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A History of the County of Oxford
… while John Walter and his sister Elizabeth West left land in Appleton (then Berks.) to benefit Witney and other … and at Church Green, all of them (though not the Appleton land) vested in the town feoffees; the rent was used for … from the investment of most other charity-stock in land at Eynsham, but by the early 18th century several had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its extensive agricultural buildings; 2 from the 1390s the land was usually leased, though tenants such as the Brice … century. Several prominent medieval burgesses held assart land in Hailey and sometimes sizeable estates elsewhere, … were sheep farmers on a significant scale: many held land in the townships, and in the 15th and 16th centuries …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century, was paying 9 rent for the two corn mills and the land, while Henry White and Thomas Jordan each paid 13 s. 4 … mill shared by the Ashfield and Collier families; 30 land attached to Tasker's mills totalled some 25 acres. 31 In … described as a factory, fulling mill, dwelling house, and land, and it was noted that the mills had been burnt down in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a loss; attempts to capitalize on its valuable town-centre land backfired when a company of property speculators which …
A History of the County of Oxford
… husbandmen or yeomen, and were presumably farmers working land outside the borough, 151 though some of the better-off … gentleman, 183 and Thomas Smith (d. 1757), who owned land and several houses and made bequests of over 400. 184 … one trade: Thomas Ring (d. 1558), taxed on 20 in 1544, had land in Hailey and Crawley, while Thomas Poole (d. 1616), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and probably earlier up to 700 a. of recently assarted land 24 in Hailey was held mostly by Witney burgesses. Since … against economic fluctuations; by the 1270s, however, the land was concentrated in the hands of only around 76 … property in Cowley, Littlemore, and Iffley, together with land at Caswell, assarts in Hailey, and houses in Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and by his will endowed it with 50 a year charged on land at Longworth (then Berks.). His widow Mary secured an … each received a salary of 6 a year charged on land in Alvescot, with a further 10 s. each for building … as a schoolroom; the school was endowed with some 90 a. of land at Stonesfield and Hailey. The Hailey rents were used to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were redrawn when the borough was established, leaving any land excluded from it in one of the later townships. The … adjoined Costells to their north, and were presumably the land 'at Costow' taken into the borough about the same time … the north and south, 135 though there was still much open land in and around the town: one house had a. of arable …
A History of the County of Oxford
… premises behind the frontages and, east of High Street, to land extending down to the river, are also characteristic of … men must have had other income, probably from houses or land: both sources were excluded from probate valuations, but … 71 Some kitchens were detached, as with the 'piece of land on which is built a kitchen or shop' mentioned about …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney Lakes and Meadows Park south of the town, on land bought in 1988. 134 Its income came from reserves and …