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A History of the County of Oxford
… John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later 18th century, and the vicar reported in 1768 that … £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the southern parish … practice of holding fairs on the village feast (24 August, St. Bartholomew's day), 53 and much earlier he had put an end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … view of frankpledge at Yarnton attended by tenants from St. Valery manors in Steeple Barton, Cassington, Hampton Gay, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of the five demesne manors. It was held successively by Reynold of St. Valery (d. c. 1162), his son Bernard (d. 1191), and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the parish. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, … antiquity, was originally designated as the parish of St. Mary; its present name was acquired from the removal of … of Scottish minstrelsy. Among the lakes are the loch of St. Mary and the loch of The Lowes. The former, seven miles …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… YARWELL (Fig. 218) Yarwell is a parish of 490 hectares on the W. of the R. Nene. It has always been a chapelry of Nassington, and … Mercury, 21 Oct.). Ecclesiastical (1) The Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Fig. 219; Plate 32) stands on the S. side …
The Rulers of London 1660-1689
… Cheap, 1688-91 Tory, 1690 (1) Cf William Yate, widower, of St Mary Colechurch, worth £600, 1695 (2) (1) Bodl Lib, … YERBURY, Richard Co Co Bread Street, 1674-80, 1688- 92 St Nicholas Coleabbey, 1661, St Margaret Moses, 1662, 1678, … Tory, 1687, 1690 (6) See Vis Wilts, 1623, pp 220-1, for the family of Yerberie of Trowbridge (1) CRO, MS 40/3, Boyd …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… YATESBURY Yatesbury village stands 7 km. east of Calne. 27 The parish, 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by Cherhill … Yatesbury. 59 An estate in Yatesbury was held from 1412 by St. Mary's priory near Marlborough. In 1539 it passed to the … In 1428 the rector was paying 6 s. 8 d. a year to Kington St. Michael priory from the rectory; 50 no other reference to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… is a parish and large village 4 m. S.S.W. of Peterborough. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Peter (Plate 162) stands on the N.W. side of the village. … was restored in 190610. Yaxley, the Parish Church of St Peter. The church is a large one and has good 13th- and …