History of the Present Deanery of Bicester, Oxon (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...of oxen, horses, and other animals, payable to the shareholders of the bailiwick. Custom only had established this tax, which becoming obnoxious was at length suffered to drop. The only tolls still payable from fairs and markets are those granted in 1440, for breaking the ground (piccage), erecting stalls (stallage), or booths (boothage), with the exception of that for the sale of grain (tollage), which has become extinct, but, the expense of collecting these being almost as much as the tolls, most of them have been abandoned. Thus the bailiwick has become of little more than nominal value, the only profits remaining being the rent of 2 cottages, and a payment of per annum from the tithing man.1 It consists at the present time of 32 undivided shares, all of which, excepting 4 which belong to the poor, are vested in private persons. Weekly Bread. We are not able, say the Charity Commissioners, to ascertain the origin of this charity. It had been paid regularily for many years by the owners of a messuage, tenement, and bakehouse in St. John's Street, when the premises were purchased in 1796 by Mr. Henry Walford, a solicitor. Mr. Walford nominates 6 poor widows of Market-end, and they receive from a baker in the town 6 two-penny loaves every Sunday. Walker's Char1ty. By an indenture dated Oct. 30th, 1811, John Walker, of Hackney, Middlesex, had expressed his intention of settling 1000, 3 per cent consols, in trust, that the proceeds should be applied to the maintenance of the Charity School, and the 2 Sunday Schools, to which he had long been a subscriber. Though no mention was made of this intention in his will, it was honourably fulfilled by his son William Walker, who conveyed the sum mentioned to certain trustees (Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, J....