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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1837 the Roman Catholic Thomas Stonor, encouraged to stand for parliament by several leading townsmen, was nevertheless … War masses were celebrated in the former workhouse chapel for Portuguese prisoners of war helping to construct Witney … 12 A Roman Catholic church, dedicated to St Hugh of Lincoln, was established about 1930 in the former Anglican …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… as formerly; the articles consists chiefly of clothing for the West India markets, swanskins for the Newfoundland fishery, and blankets for the home trade: the number of persons regularly employed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who, after a judicial combat at Salisbury, was executed for high treason, was lord of the principal part of this … of the Duke of Beaufort: the tithes have been commuted for 327. 12.; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe … of freestone brought from Ancaster, in the county of Lincoln, in exchange for coal obtained on the estate. The …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. 1 There afterwards Warner … of Sir Richard Rothwell, of Stapleford, in the County of Lincoln, Bart. by whom he had four sons, Francis, Thomas, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is described below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been … iv. 279-82. Mun. Civ. Oxon. (O.H.S. lxxi), 233; Royal Letters addressed to Oxf. ed. O. Ogle, 195-7. Royal Letters to Oxf. 201-11. Oxf. City Rec. ed. W.H.Turner, 404; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… small streams on part of the north, and field boundaries for the rest. The extra-parochial area of Godstow (411 a.), … out of the church on the orders of St. Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, was destroyed at the Dissolution, but its supposed … Oxon. 36; P.R.O., E 179/164/504. Census, 1801-1931. Royal Letters to Oxf. ed. O. Ogle, 151; P.R.O., C Blenheim Mun., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 97 In the later 18th century the churchwardens paid for the repair of bridges, a causeway, and the river banks, and, in the early 19th century, for the ditching and draining of land in the open fields. 98 … in 1985. 4 Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii. 857. Royal Letters to Oxf. ed. O. Ogle, 150; P.R.O., E 134/1651-2, Hil. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… who sold it to Edward Glynton and Nicholas Todd, acting for the city of Oxford. In 1555 the city sold it to John … closes ( c. 22 a.) were sold to Dr. Robert South of Islip for the endowment of his school there; they were sold to the … p. 30; ii, p. 661. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii. 191; Royal Letters Addressed to Oxford, ed. O. Ogle, 149-52; L. & P. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was sold to J. T. Dodd. Dodd sold it in 1921 to trustees for R.W. Ffennell of Wytham Abbey, who in 1924 gave the site to Oxford University, on trusts to preserve the ruins for the nation. 33 A church, and presumably the chief … 1188 when Henry II gave a total of £258, including £100 for the church, 40,000 shingles, 4,000 laths, and a large …