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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Iron Age pottery, associated with an area covered by iron slag, have been found ( BNFAS, 6 (1971), 19, Yardley … Boulder Clay at 106 m. above OD. Air photographs (not seen by RCHM) are said to show cropmarks of a square enclosure, … 19, Yardley Hastings (13)). Medieval and Later A complete St. Neots ware jug is said to have been found in a pit in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Parish of Woolhope. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the S. part of the parish. The … appears to have been a church here of c. 1200 as evidenced by some capitals at the vicarage, the re-set S. doorway and … Vestry added. Architectural DescriptionThe Chancel (28 ft. by 17 ft.) has no ancient features. The Church, Plan The Nave …
A History of the County of Somerset
… parts of the eastern and western boundaries are marked by roads. 74 The boundaries of the manor, which by the 18th century were conterminous with the parish … 1782-97, was also a chaplain to the king and a canon of St. Paul's. 87 Communion was celebrated four times a year in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Charities Charities Sir Thomas Spencer by will dated 1684 left a rent charge of £7 a year on … the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the … first charge on the bequest. 73 Alderman William Fletcher, by deed dated 1823, gave £30 a year to the parish, of which …
A History of the County of Oxford
… nominee was rejected as unfit and presentation was made by the bishop. 48 After the Dissolution the Crown presented … 1965 the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's … Yarnton until the later 19th century. 79 Although Thomas Gregory of Hordley in Wootton parish, vicar 1761-80, gave the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were 52 yardlands recorded in the parish in 1279, but by the 17th century there were said to be only 44, 17 presumably because of the loss of arable land by inclosure in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18 By the later … a single day on successive Mondays following the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) in the order Oxey, West …
A History of the County of Oxford
… catechism. 50 A school for 6 or 8 children, in existence by 1780, 51 may have been the precursor of a Sunday school … established in 1783. 52 The latter was supported in 1797 by a biannual payment of 18 s. from the overseers and by … £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
… in the 18th century and early 19th. 43 The route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been … south where inclosure is known to have been in progress by the 15th century. 53 Traces of ridge and furrow in the … 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 Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the hundred court of Wootton by Richard, earl of Cornwall. Earl Edmund held courts for his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, … Yarnton. In 1086 Eynsham's estates were held of the bishop by Abbot Columban, but 9 1/2 hides at Yarnton, though said to … with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of the five demesne …