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A History of the County of Oxford
… PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century … and Hailey. There is, however, no evidence of a minster at Witney, and before the estate was assembled in possibly … des Roches, bishop of Winchester and confidant of King John, regained the church probably around 1212 when the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The strength of Protestant Dissent in Witney, a dominant … An incoming rector in the 1830s feared that attendance at Nonconformist chapels was four times that at the parish … regular preachers, the ejected ministers William Conway, John Dod, and Francis Hubbard (d. 1679) all settled in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… CATHOLICISM Despite hints of religious conservatism in the mid 16th century, there is no evidence of a strong … either then or later. 1 In 1549 Oxfordshire gentry met at Witney to coordinate suppression of the Prayer Book … about 1930 in the former Anglican schoolroom at West End, a small, plain, stone building erected in 1881; at first …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 … 19 p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 10.; net income, 400; patron, the Rev. F. J. Hilliard. … Valentinianus, and others were found. Wittersham (St. John the Baptist) WITTERSHAM ( St. John the Baptist), a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of … from 800 to 1000. The markets are on Tuesday and Saturday, at the former of which, the principal, a great deal of … in their calculations on the abacus. Wivelsfield (St. John the Baptist) WIVELSFIELD ( St. John the Baptist), a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… 6 in. xxxvii. N.W.) Wivenhoe is a parish and small town on the left bank of the Colne, 3 m. S.E. of Colchester. The … with elephant and castle-stops, indents of roundels at angles, two angels and Trinity; (2) of [Elizabeth, widow of above and wife of John, Earl of Oxford, 1537], large figure of woman in …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates CHURCH. The church existed by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. … Old Heath. 5 The value of the rectory was estimated at 4 marks in 1254. 6 The church was not valued in 1291 when it paid 4 s. to St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's …
A History of the County of Essex
… and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which might … of the parish extending into Cockaynes in Elmstead. 24 St. John's abbey, Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad and … in West Donyland (Col- chester). 27 The lord's common at Wivenhoe heath was overloaded with 100 sheep in 1407. 28 …
A History of the County of Essex
… existed in 1724. 95 Two schoolmasters were recorded in the 1760s; one, John Potter, by will proved 1763, left £2 to educate two poor … with 60 pupils; there were 100 in 1841. 13 In 1847 John Sandford built a school- room for 250 behind the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles … bor- ough. 89 By 1990 all of the Essex University site at Wivenhoe park had been removed from the civil parish. 90 … in the local war against smuggling. 70 The painter, John Constable, painted Wivenhoe Park in 1816 on a social …