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A History of the County of Oxford
… 1949 compulsorily purchased by the council for use as the County Fire Brigade headquarters; in 1965 it became the County Museum. 41 The remains of the new house of c. 1614 … nos. 8-10 Park Lane. 70 The duke gave up the lease c. 1846. 71 The houses, fronted with limestone ashlar, retain …
A History of the County of Oxford
… educational and guide books, and ten times mayor. 21 As a county magistrate he was frequently mocked as 'the tool of … marriage centre in the 18th century before the Hardwicke Act. 49 For the rectory and rectors, above, Bladon, Church. … 32. Par. Colln. 351; cf. Marshall, Woodstock Manor, 348. County Mus., P.R.N. 5798: TS. hist. of chimes by A. H. T. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… houses around a central area of croquet lawns and tennis courts. 35 Hensington House was demolished in the 1920s but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… markets and fairs in that year was followed by an Act in 1576 making Woodstock a staple town. George Whitton, … in 1861 there were only c. 200 male glovers in the whole county outside Oxford. 54 Some machine stitching had been … and the charter of 1565 allowed him to hold piepowder courts at the fairs. 35 Although royal clerks of the market …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been a lawyer serving regularly as attorney in the town's courts; 7 Thomas Widdowes (1646-53) wrote a grammar and the … 59 There was a girls' boarding school at Hope House in 1846 and until 1850. 60 Hensington House was a boarding … Schs. ( c. 1983, priv. print.): copy in Westgate Libr. County Mus., P.R.N. 4887; Oxf. Chron. 5 Feb. 1853; Bodl. G.A. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… males at the muster, 31 and suitors to early 17th-century courts leet, theoretically all male inhabitants aged 12 and … and in 1839, after a dispute with the corporation, the county took over the whole length of the derelict causeway; … and greatly influenced the town's later history. 71 An Act of 1576 making Woodstock a staple town briefly stimulated …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it could not prosecute felonies without special mandate. County justices and royal officers were excluded from the borough, and residents were not answerable in other courts for things done in the borough. The mayor and … the town's decline to the cessation of royal patronage the Act allowed free trading in wool and yarn within the borough. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (d. 1561), steward of the manor and M.P. for the county, and in 1553 and in the two parliaments of 1554 a … 18 To punish political opponents he removed manorial courts from inns at Stonesfield and Bladon, where in … was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885. For lists and biogs. of M.P.s see Williams, …