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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… XVI. 5). The sheltered position and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in the 19th century to a … Abbey, the manor house having been the W. tenement on the S. side of the street. Sir Guy Wolston gained possession of … (Bridges II, 485). Ecclesiastical (1) The Parish Church of St. Mary (Fig. 213; Plate 18) stands on high ground at the W. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Woodsford 51 WOODSFORD (7690) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 78 NE, bSY 79 SE) The roughly rectangular … of Woodsford, covering some 1,700 acres, lies on the S. side of the river Frome, 4 m. E. of Dorchester. It slopes … monument. Ecclesiastical b(1) The Parish Church of St. John the Baptist stands in the village of East Woodsford …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original burgages survived until the 1930s. They were … Croft in 1477 and was later part of his endowment of St. Margaret's chantry, dispersed after 1551. 54 The house … 59 The White Hart inn was charged with 6 s. 8 d. rent to St. Mary's chantry which was paid to the corporation after …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the Poor Municipal Charities. The corporation's first almshouses were successors to those founded in the … Oxford (d. 1643), 4 s. a year. 91 Bread distributions on St. Thomas's day derived from bequests of £5 each from Edward … (1675), and Christopher Newell (1678). 92 Good Friday and St. Thomas's day bread was given out regularly by the mayor …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and burial ground were reconsecrated in 1336 the bishop's licence was granted not to the rector but to the vill. 36 … two chantries with permanent chaplains. A chapel of St. John, apparently not in the manor house, was repaired at … for a year, the mayor strove to prevent the fee passing to David Yale, one of the chantry priests. 75 In 1520 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the … survey of 1279; rents for more houses, notably those of St. John's hospital, Oxford, were not listed individually but … was vacant. 25 Another indication of decay was the fate of St. John's hospital's Woodstock property, which passed c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… John at Green, Richard Marden, and the hospital of St. John, Oxford, owed over a third of the total rental. 70 The hospital's estate had been granted in the mid 13th century by … the Marshall family, Thomas Spilsby, and William Faulkner, St. John's hospital, and the chapelwardens paid almost half …
A History of the County of Oxford
… master, who was to be a good preacher. 88 In 1587 Cornwell's relict Mary Dolman gave money to trustees to buy property … 1588 by Dr. John Case, a native of Woodstock and fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, who transferred the loan from the … Catholic elementary school was opened in 1934 next to St. Hugh's church in Hensington Road with 43 pupils; it was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with … Woodstock was recorded from the 1220s, and a hospital of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Mary Magdalene at Woodstock was mentioned in 1339. 62 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … of the Woodstock property of the dissolved chantry of St. Mary, in return for a fee farm rent of 5 6 s. 8 d., of … quitrent. 11 In 1671 the Crown sold the fee farm to David Walter and others, and in 1702 Sir John Walter sold it …