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 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 MEMORIALS 
 
 OF 
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON.
 
 MEMORIALS 
 
 OF 
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 County of 
 
 BVT THE 
 
 REV. JENNER MARSHALL, M.A., 
 
 LORD OF THE MAXOR. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 
 ' 36, SOHO SQUARE. 
 
 1870.
 
 LONDON ; 
 
 S. AND J. BRAWN, PRINTER*, 
 13, PRINCES STREET, LITTLE QI-F.EN STREET, HOLBORN.
 
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 W5IM3 
 
 TO THE 
 
 THIS ATTEMPT TO 
 COLLECT THE RECORDS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE 
 
 . VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE, 
 
 AND TO ELUCIDATE CERTAIN INCIDENTAL MATTERS BY A COMPILATION 
 
 FROM AUTHENTIC WRITERS ON THEIR RESPECTIVE SUBJECTS, 
 
 IS INSCRIBED BY 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
 62990.
 
 Fled are those times when, 'in harmonious strains, 
 The rustic poet praised his native plains ; 
 No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse, 
 Their country's beauty or their nymphs' rehearse. 
 
 CmVbe Village, Book i., line 7 11.
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Motto. 
 Inscription. 
 Preface. 
 Introduction. 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 Situation of the Village. Soil of the Parish, and 
 Etymology of the Name .... 1 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 The Church and Ecclesiastical State, and the Church 
 
 Bells 6 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 The Wake and Feast. St. Edward Confessor Conse- 
 cration of the Church and valuation of the Living 10 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 List of Rectors and Patrons . . . 14 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 Monuments . . . . '. . . 18 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 The Parochial School . . . / 21 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 Charitable Ee quests. Charity Land, and Poor's Allotment 21 
 
 b
 
 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 The Parish Registers and Officer's Books ... 25 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 The Inclosure Act and. the Award ... 34 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 The Manor and other Estates .... 40 
 
 CHAP. XL 
 
 Brief Notices of the Chief Proprietors of 1867-8 The 
 Names of the others and their respective Properties. 49 
 
 CHAP. XII. 
 Roads and Highways . . . . 51 
 
 CHAP. XIII, 
 The New Bridges . . ' . . . 53 
 
 CHAP. XIV. 
 The Land Tax and other Property Taxes . 54 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. 
 FAMILY OF BUSWELL. 
 FAMILY OF MARSHALL. 
 APPENDIX i, ii, iii, iv, v. vi, vii, vii, viii, ix, x.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 UPON the appearance in 1866' of Mr. Wing's Annals of the 
 Bartons, I almost resolved to abandon an intention I had 
 formed, and which I was engaged in carrying out, viz., that 
 of collecting Memorials of Westcott Barton. I have, how- 
 ever, been induced to proceed with niy plan, and I now 
 submit the collection to the reader. Names of books and 
 documents referred to are inserted where it is requisite, 
 and a simple transcript of the language of the authorities is 
 given in some places as most conducive to an accurate 
 acquaintance with the subject-matter. There is much in 
 common with Mr. Wing's statements, but any information 
 which has been obtained primarily from " The Annals " is 
 acknowledged by the insertion of (W. W.) in the text. 
 
 The Author expresses his thanks to many persons who 
 have contributed information for the Memorials, but espe- 
 cially to the Rev. Edmund L. Loekyer, the rector, the Rev. 
 Edward Marshall, of Sandford, and Henry Churchill, Esq., of 
 Deddington, for permitting a free perusal of documents and 
 deeds in their possession ; to the Dean and Canons of 
 Christ Church for the examination of the chartularies of 
 the Abbeys of Oseney and Eynsham ; to H. W. Hewlett, 
 Esq., of London, and Mr. H. Turner, of Oxford, for copies 
 and searches of sundry records ; and to W. Wing, Esq., of 
 Steeple Aston, for the use of his Annals of the Bartons. 
 
 It remains only to add that the illustration of the church 
 is from a photograph by T. Collinson, of Oxford, kindly lent 
 to be reproduced for this book by the rector of the parish.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 " No little village," says a writer in the Cornhill Magazine, 
 Vol. III., p. 117, " is too small or too remote to be utterly 
 worthless to itself; and by respecting its own individual 
 value, it takes the surest course to become generally 
 respected. Wherever a road has been cut, a tree planted, 
 and smoke has climbed from the meanest cottages ; wherever 
 man may have been born, have suffered, and have died, there 
 is much that ought never to be buried and forgotten. The 
 origin, the progress, or even the decay of such a place, its 
 daily life, its dimly remembered worthies, its old traditions, 
 its old songs, its hopes and its fears, its joys and its sorrows, 
 are all worthy of historical preservation." 
 
 Animated by the same spirit, I have endeavoured to collect 
 those matters of Parochial interest in which all classes of our 
 village have a share, and which are scattered about in 
 private papers, parish documents, and public records, and 
 have been handed down by word of mouth from rude 
 forefathers to their more enlightened posterity.
 
 MEMORIALS OF WESTCOTT BARTON. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 SITUATION OF THE VILLAGE AND ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME. 
 
 THE Parish of Westcott Barton, in the Hundred of Wootton 
 and Union of Woodstock, is intersected by one of those little 
 valleys of which there are a succession between Woodstock 
 and Banbury, fertilized by the rivulets Glyme or Enis, and 
 Dome, and Swere, and Oke, and Sotbrook, on which have 
 risen up the villages of Wykham, Barford, Worton, Sandford, 
 Barton, Kiddington, Glympton, and Wootton ; it is thus in 
 a district having an extremely undulated and varied surface, 
 and being surrounded by a number of gentlemen's seats, with 
 the woods and plantations of Blenheim, Ditchley, Kiddington, 
 Glympton, Heythrop, Great Tew, North Aston, Kirtlington, 
 Blechingdon, Rousham, and Tackley, is situated near and 
 amidst as much pleasant scenery as is to be found ordinarily 
 in any part of the County of Oxford. It lies on the turnpike 
 road leading from Bicester to Enstone, about three miles 
 and three-quarters from the Heyford station -on the Oxford 
 and Birmingham branch of the Great Western Railway, and 
 about midway between Heyford and Enstoneas one journeys 
 from east to west towards Chipping Norton, which is distant 
 eight miles. The market town of Deddington lies six miles 
 to the north, and that of Woodstock is a similar distance to 
 the south. The village has a few houses forming part of the 
 Liberty of Middle Barton, a hamlet belonging to the parish 
 of Great or Steeple Barton, lying to the north-cast, and a 
 few also at the south-west extremity. All these are built on 
 the right side of the turnpike road, and have most of them
 
 2 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 been encroachments thereon, while there are two isolated 
 groups of tenements erected on detached pieces of land 
 belonging to the parish, situated in the village and liberty 
 of Middle Barton. There is also one small outlying farm 
 and homestead called " Horsehay " on sandy way towards 
 Dunstew ; and the rectory farm-house, with its buildings, 
 has an independent position by itself on the Worton road, 
 alias Herdsway, towards the wood. The greater proportion 
 of the cottages have been built near the stream called the 
 Dome, which rises on Showell Farm, about three miles to 
 the north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Swerford, 
 and which, after meandering through the meadows of the 
 intermediate parishes, joins its waters with those of the 
 Glyme at or near Hordley Farm, in the parish of Woottoii. 
 The stream is better known by the familiar appellation of 
 "Barton Brook" and has been long in estimation as an Oxford- 
 shire trout stream. All the superior houses, and the cottages 
 for the most part, are on the northern bank of this rivulet. 
 Among those on the southern are the remains of what was 
 in ancient times " the Mill." The premises adjoin the Mag- 
 dalen College allotment of 1796, which was leased to James 
 Parsons, and there may be seen in the outhouse of a cottage 
 the wall for carrying the wheel and the mill-head. The 
 mill-pool is cultivated as a garden and orchard, and the bed 
 of the stream for supplying the water is still traceable for a 
 short distance in the next meadow. The only spring now 
 existing which apparently might have been intercepted for 
 its water has a copious flow in ordinary seasons, but ceases 
 to run in very dry summers. The inscription ^E 1 70 1 is 
 engraved on a stone in the front wall of the cottage. There 
 are three clusters of cottages on the west of the farm, near 
 the church, but it may be calculated that five-sixths of the 
 occupiers in the village reside in the main quarter. The 
 soil of the village is chiefly stonebrash otherwise known as 
 the surface of the great oolite formation and marked 
 towards the "south on the map of the Ordnance Geological 
 Survey of Great Britain (No. Ixv. S.W. Banbury) as " white 
 limestone, highly fossiliferous." On the north and north-east 
 it begins to partake of the character of the red loam. In the
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 3 
 
 valley of the Dome there is a strip of alluvial pasture ; and 
 a few spots in the parish are of a miscellaneous nature. 
 The fossils commonly to be met with are of the marine shell- 
 fish kind, the more conspicuous being Terebratula, smooth 
 shell-shape stones, with a hole-mark at the end, through 
 which the creature put forth its arms to lay hold of the 
 object of its search ; Rhynconella, streaked ditto, with a 
 beak-like end ; Ostrea oyster ; Mytilus muscle ; Echinus 
 urchin ; Astrea coral. The deposit thus indicates the dis- 
 trict to have been in remote ages the bed of an inland sea.. 
 
 From the manifestly desirable situation for the business 
 of a primitive life, and from the Norman character of archi- 
 tecture yet existing in the church of known antiquity, we 
 have reason for believing that this locality has been selected 
 as a favourite abode and place of occupation for more than 
 eight hundred years. The Dome has been, till very recent 
 times, a stream flowing with a larger and more regular 
 supply of water than it does at the present. 
 
 But as artificial, as well as natural causes, have altered 
 the face of the country, and humidity has been diminished 
 by the cutting down of woods and the draining of uplands, 
 the resources have been interrupted, and the river has dwin- 
 dled down, like many others under similar circumstances, 
 into a mere brook. 
 
 There are thirty-two towns and villages in different parts 
 of England, called " Barton " (Brooke's Gazetteer, art. Barton). 
 In Chambers' and Rees' Cyclopaedia, 1786, the word Barton 
 is described as used in the west of England for the demesne 
 lands of a manor, also for the manor house, and in some 
 places for outhouses, foldyards, &c. Kennett, in his Paro- 
 chial Antiquities, Vol. I., p. 37, says the name Berton " did 
 signify a granary or storeplace of corn : as Berton by St. 
 Martin's in Canterbury, the granary of the monks- of St. 
 Austin, and Westgate Court, nigh the same city, before 
 called Berton de Westgate, and for which reason/' he says, 
 " I do not find this name affixed to any principal towns, but 
 to those farm and mansion houses that were in the posses- 
 sion of the monks, and by them assigned to that use." " In 
 many parts of England the rickyard was called ' the Barton,'
 
 4 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 that is, the inclosure for the bear, or crop which the land 
 bears." (Words and Places, by Eev. Isaac Taylor, 2nd cd., 
 Lond., Camb., Macmillan and Co., 1865, p. 120.) As for 
 the termination ton, which was originally " tun " or " tune" 
 in Verstigan's Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, p. 2.95, 
 Lond., 1628, this reason is given why the word Towne 
 came into so frequent use among us, " Our ancestors, for 
 purpose of defence, would cast a ditch and a strong hedge 
 about their houses, and the houses so environed about with 
 tunes or hedges got the name of tunes annexed to them. 
 Moreover, when necessity, by reason of wars and troubles, 
 caused whole thorps an ancient word for which we have 
 now substituted villages, from the French to be with such 
 tunes environed about, these enclosed places did thereby 
 take the name of Tunes, afterwards pronounced Toivnes, 
 and so gave cause that all places that contained but some 
 number of tenements in a nearnesse together got the name 
 of Townes as vulgarly as we yet unto this day call them." 
 In Domesday Book it is spelt Bertone ; any difference in 
 the manner of spelling between the original name and the 
 entry in that book may be accounted for in this way.'"" 
 When the survey was made, Saxon commissioners were 
 employed to -ascertain the particulars of the respective 
 estates and properties, and when they gave in their report 
 to the Norman scribes, the latter seldom troubled them- 
 selves as to the orthography of the places of which the 
 account was delivered in, but they received offhand the 
 information which the Saxon supplied, and characterized it 
 after their own peculiar mode, purposely depraving and 
 contracting the Saxon words to gratify the ambition of the 
 Conqueror, whose desire was to see the French language, as 
 well as the French arms, predominant in the island. A 
 different cause is working in our day to the destruction of 
 what remains of our original tongue, viz., the frequent and 
 easy intercourse we have now established between one town 
 and another, and our intermixture with foreign people, and 
 foreigners associating with ourselves. Much of the language 
 of the country people is still, however, hardly intelligible to 
 
 * See Kennett, Paroch. Antic}., Vol. I., p. 88, Oxford, 1818.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 5 
 
 those who live in the metropolis and other important cities, 
 and the obscure neglected hamlet will be the last stronghold 
 of the Saxon tongue. 
 
 From what has been said, we may come to the conclusion 
 that this settlement must be considered as having acquired 
 the name of Barton from its being originally an estate and 
 residence of a lord of a manor, or if otherwise, from the 
 Religious, and probably those of Oseney Abbey at Oxford, 
 who had a large interest in Barton,""" having a storeplace for 
 corn here. 
 
 Four manors seem to have grown out of the lordship of 
 Barton, for there are now Barton (Ede, or Sharshull, or 
 Sess wells, Great or Steeple Barton, Barton Middle, and 
 Barton Westcott, the subject of our record. This latter has 
 been at various times differently described. Thus it is found 
 to be styled, in the Bull of Pope Honorius, in the Oseney 
 Chartulary, fol. 60, of the year 1221, Parva Barton ; in the 
 Testa de Nevill of the date 1216 1306-7, in the reigns of 
 Hen. III. and Ed. I., referring to the Fee of William de 
 Kaynes, Westcote Barton. In the Abbrev. Placit. of 2nd 
 Ed. I., Edmund Count of Cornwall is found to be seized of 
 a holding in West Barton. In 1292, at the Taxatio P.N., 
 the name returned is Barton Parva (Little Barton). In 
 1322, 16 Ed. II., the Calendar Inquis. Post Mortem has an 
 entry of Bartone Magna, Manor JExtent ; and in 1351-52, 
 26 Ed. III., Barton Manor Extent. In 1534, 26 Hen. 
 VIII., the Valor Ecclesiasticus gives it, at p. 215, as Wescot 
 Barton, and at p. 211 Litill Barton. From 1557 to the 
 present time the Oxford Registers have the uniform entry 
 of Westcote. In the Villare, or View of the Townes of 
 England, by Sir H. Spelman, a list printed in folio in 1655, 
 it is entered as Westcott Barton ; and as the Act of Parlia- 
 ment of 1795, for the purposes of the inclosure, has adopted 
 this manner of spelling, it would seem to be the most appro- 
 priate way in all our writings henceforth to make use of the 
 word West with the terminal Cott. The meaning of Cot or 
 Cote at the end of the names of places is from the Saxon a 
 Cottage (Johnson's Diet.). West speaks for itself. The 
 
 * Appendix No. 1.
 
 6 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 site, then, here determines the distinction, and the popular 
 mode would come to speak of the little habitation, with its 
 rickyard and lands of the manor on the West, to be Barton 
 Westcott or Westcott Barton. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE CHURCH AND ECCLESIASTICAL STATE. 
 
 As regards the church, Westcott Barton is in the Diocese 
 and Archdeaconry of Oxford and Euridecanal Deanery of 
 Woodstock, the interior dimensions of the sacred edifice now 
 bearing dedication to St. Edward, King and Confessor,* and 
 consisting of tower, with pinnacles at the angles, nave, 
 chancel, south aisle, and porch, are as follows : 
 
 Length and breadth of the tower which is at the West- 
 end of the nave 11 feet by 7 feet 6 inches. 
 
 Height of the tower to the battlement 40 feet. 
 
 Length of the nave to the chancel step 37 6 inches. 
 
 Breadth of ditto, to base of pillars ... 14 10 
 
 Length of Chancel 21 6 . 
 
 Breadth of ditto 12 8 
 
 Span of chancel arch 8 9 
 
 Length of South aisle 36 6 
 
 Breadth of ditto, from base of pillars to 
 
 South wall 5 6 
 
 Porch which has a stone seat on both sides within its walls, 
 and the remains of a Stoop for holy water outside, on the 
 south face of the east wall and a sundial in the gabel, dated 
 1623. 
 
 Length and breadth 6 feet by 6 feet 6 inches. 
 
 The belfrey is approached by a door from within the 
 number of windows are seven in the church and five in the 
 chancel. 
 
 There are two doors of entrance, one the " Peoples' 
 
 * Ecton's Thesaurus, 1754.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 7 
 
 through the south aisle, the other the "Rectors" in the 
 chancel. 
 
 An account of the building is given in Parker's Architec- 
 tural Guide to the Churches in the neighbourhood of Oxford, 
 and it has not received any addition since the publication of 
 that book in 1846. It presents specimens of the Norman,* 
 Transition-Norman, and Perpendicular styles of Architecture. 
 The arches of the aisle are part of the building of the twelfth 
 century. The tower and later parts of the fifteenth, or be- 
 ginning of the sixteenth. 
 
 The work of restoration was effected in 1855-1856, at a 
 cost of 927, of which 200 was a loan from the Public 
 works Commissioners, to be repaid in twenty years by 
 twenty yearly instalments for principal and interest secured 
 upon the Church-rates of the parish 300 was provided 
 for the restoration of the chancel by the patron 45 was a 
 donation from the Church Building Societies 47 the 
 amount of the offertory and collection after the re-opening 
 festival services,f and remainder was a subscription by the 
 rector and his family, his friends and neighbours. 
 
 This Church had fallen like so many other country 
 churches into a very unbeseeming state. 
 
 The tower arch had become blocked up with a singing 
 gallery and back boarding the font had been displaced 
 against the west pier of the arch which divides the nave from 
 the aisle, and was found, when the repairs occasioned its re- 
 moval, to have had laid upside down for its pediment the 
 head stone of a coffin of the thirteenth century, which was 
 supposed originally to have occupied a position under the 
 arcade for a tomb in the wall of the aisle, and which is now 
 set out to view as a relic in the Churchyard. The reading 
 desk faced the west, and together with the pulpit stood just 
 within the nave on the south of the chancel screen. Pews 
 
 * A stone, bearing date iiii., is to be seen built into the tower beneath the 
 eastern parapet, evidently with a view to its preservation. 
 
 t The account of the celebration which took place on the 2nd of January 
 1856, was fully reported in Jackson's Oxford Journal of the 5th of that 
 month.
 
 8 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 there were in the chancel as well as the body of the church 
 of every size and character and state of dilapidation an 
 uneven and unsightly pavement completed the meanness of 
 the aspect, with a broken screen and a flat and plastered 
 ceiling, and stonework defaced and mutilated yet with suffi- 
 cient indications remaining to tell of its former worthier state, 
 and to be a guide to the architect in what he was required to 
 do. The work was entrusted to Mr. E. Street, the diocesan 
 Architect, and Messrs. Franklin of Deddington, were the 
 builders employed to carry the plans out. The prominent 
 features of its present state are the tower recess thrown open 
 to the nave ; the Norman font remounted re-adorned and 
 placed immediately on the left of the door of entrance ; the 
 arch in the aisle which, was thrown probably over the tomb 
 of the founder, or some benefactor, displayed ; the old pulpit 
 of wood refitted and put up with steps of stone in the north 
 corner of the nave by the chancel arch ; the chancel furnished 
 in oak and made suitable for the use of the officiating 
 ministers ; the screen repaired and recoloured in gold and 
 red, and green and blue ; a uniformity of uninclosed seats 
 of stained deal, a few of the original oak ones being pre- 
 served in the aisle to the west end ; a pavement of black, 
 red, and buff Staffordshire tiles ; and a high pitched roof of 
 open timber work ; the east window of the chancel filled 
 with stained glass by Hardman, representing in the centre 
 the Crucifixion, and on the left side the Bearing of the Cross, 
 and on the right, the Deposition ; the north and south 
 windows also of the chancel having coloured glass ; the west 
 window under the tower, replaced with stained glass in 1867 
 by the patron's family, " In memory of Henrietta Seagrave," 
 prepared by the Kev. H. Usher, Curate of Oddington, an 
 amateur stainer of glass, who also painted the north and 
 south windows of the chancel the subjects in this window 
 are the types of the Old Testament : viz., Isaac bearing the 
 wood ; Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness and 
 Joseph at the pit's mouth. 
 
 The communion plate belonging to the church consists of 
 one chalice and cover of silver with the date 1572, inscribed 
 thereon ; one chalice of silver, the gift of the rector, E. L.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 9 
 
 Lockyer, 1852; one flagon, ditto; one paten, ditto; one 
 laten alms dish, the gift of the rector's servants, 1864. 
 
 The size of the churchyard is two chain from N. to S., 
 and two chain from E. to W., which is consecrated ground, 
 with an additional piece of four yards wide on the W., and 
 four yards on the S., which is not consecrated. 
 
 In the churchyard is to be seen the base of the ancient 
 perpendicular cross with its steps ; the shaft having dis- 
 appeared, it is opposite the porch, and is eleven feet distant 
 from it in a direct line. 
 
 THE CHURCH BELLS. 
 
 The Belfry is arranged for three bells, there is also a 
 Priest's bell in it, of these the first, which has a piece knocked 
 out of the brim, is twenty seven inches in diameter, and 
 bears the inscription J. Buswell, senior, J.Busivell, junior, 
 c: w: B. M. made me 1756. The initials C. W., are 
 meant for Church Wardens ; the B. M. I conceive to stand 
 for Bagley Matthew, a noted bell founder at Chacombe, near 
 Banbury.* The second bell is thirty inches in diameter, 
 with the motto preceded by a cross 
 
 ^ Ce JBeum laufcamug, 
 
 followed by three medallions, or devices, viz., a lion's face ; 
 a shield bearing a bell between what were probably the three 
 letters R W-> u with stops much defaced by| the hammer 
 and chisel, most likely of the Puritans ; and a coin. The 
 third is thirty-two inches in diameter, with the motto, &c. 
 
 ^ Valuta jBaria ora pro nobi'd* 
 
 This bell, of the same character as the former, is broken in 
 pieces, and the fragments are in the care of the rector at his 
 house. These two would seem to have been made at Wo- 
 kingham, or Reading.f they are without any date upon them, 
 
 * See Beesley's Banbury Note, p. 538. 
 
 t Church Bells of Sussex, by R. D. Tyssen. Lewes, 1864, p. 9.
 
 10 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 and their position and mode of hanging does not seem to 
 have been altered since they were first put up. From Mr. 
 Lukis' account, * they may be taken to be of the same age 
 as the tower, if not earlier, and to have escaped the spoliation 
 which he mentions to have been so rife in England during 
 the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, p. 50. He tells us at 
 p. 24, that " it is not probable that the full wheel was em- 
 ployed much before the year 1677, and that before that 
 period bells were moved by means of a short piece of wood 
 fixed at right angles to the stock, or by a half wheel which 
 was in use in 1527, and is still to be met with in Dorset- 
 shire ; at Dumchidcock, Devon ; at Westcote Barton, Oxon, 
 where there are three, and at the church of St. Saviour's, in 
 Guernsey." It is very seldom, he says, " that bells of the 
 fifteenth century have dates upon them, but bells of the 
 sixteenth century are very frequently dated," p. 31. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 WAKE FEAST ST. EDWARD CONFESSOR CONSECRATION OF 
 THE CHURCH, AND ITS VALUATION. 
 
 The Church wake and feast is held on the first Sunday 
 after the eleventh day of October ; the calendar of our 
 Prayer book marks the thirteenth as the festival of the 
 translation of King Edward 1st., the day on which his relics 
 were removed to the new shrine which Henry the third 
 caused to be erected for them in Westminster Abbey ; the 
 the day of consecration and dedication of the church was 
 the customary yearly church festival, and Wheatly says, 
 " From the days of Constantine these commemorations were 
 constantly made once a year, and solemnized with great 
 pomp, and confluence of people ; the solemnity usually last- 
 ing eight days together; such a custom was observed in 
 
 * An account of Church Bells, by Rev. C. Lukis, M.A., F.S.A. J. H. 
 Parker, London and Oxford, 1857.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 11 
 
 England till the 28th year of K. Henry VIIL, when by a 
 decree of convocation confirmed by that king, the Feast of 
 Dedication was ordered to be celebrated in all places on one 
 and the same day, viz., on the first Sunday in October. 
 Whether that feast be continued now in any parts of the 
 kingdom I cannot tell ; as for the wakes, which are still ob- 
 served in many country villages, and generally upon the next 
 Sunday that follows the Saint's day whose name the church 
 bears, I take them to be the remains of the old church 
 holydays, which were feasts kept in memory of the saints to 
 whose honour the churches were dedicated, and who were 
 therefore called the patrons of the churches. For though 
 all churches were dedicated to none but God, as appears by 
 the grammatical construction of the word church, which sig- 
 nifies nothing else but the Lord's house ; yet at their conse- 
 cration they were generally distinguished by the name of 
 some angel or saint ; chiefly that the people by frequently 
 mentioning them, might be incited to imitate the virtues 
 for which they had been eminent, and also that those Holy 
 Saints themselves might by that means be kept in remembe- 
 
 St. Edward was the youngest of the sons of the Saxon 
 King Ethelred. He was born at Islip, and brought up in 
 France, and was crowned king at Winchester on Easter day 
 1042, about the 40th year of his age. His peculiarly virtuous 
 character exhibited throughout a reign of twenty years ob- 
 tained for him the venerable title of Saint, and with the 
 adjunct of Confessor to his name, conferred upon him about 
 a century after his death by Pope Alexander III., in ac- 
 knowledgment of the services which he had rendered that 
 foreign Potentate, he is distinguished from the two Edwards 
 who preceded him as St. Edward the Confessor. St. Ed- 
 ward was regarded as the Patron Saint of England, till in 
 the thirteenth century, St. George supplanted him in the 
 affections of the people. Twenty-one churches are said to 
 be dedicated in England to his name.f It is necessary here 
 
 * Wheatley on the Common Prayer, p. 90, Oxford Ed. 1802. 
 + See Speed's History of England : he Calendar of the Anglican Church ; 
 Oxford, 1851 ; Holy token of Old, published by Chas. Mozley, London, 1849.
 
 12 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 to notice that from the ancient chartulary of Eynesham Mo- 
 nastery (see Appendix No. 1, fol. xxxix), the original church 
 of Westcott Barton would appear to have been dedicated to 
 St. Edmund, to whom fifty-five churches in this country are 
 known to be dedicated ;* these, however, are chiefly to be 
 fonnd in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, called East 
 Anglia, of which province Ed ; w > asd was fifteenth king. I 
 have not been able to trace out the time and occasion when 
 as the patron saint of Westcott Barton he was changed for 
 St. Edward ; but I conceive it was either at the consecration 
 of the church in the thirteenth century, or perhaps at a later 
 date, the re-opening of the church after it had been enlarged 
 or partially rebuilt. St Edward having been born in the 
 county of Oxford, and being a great supporter of monastic 
 institutions ; the translation also of his relics in 1163, hav- 
 ing given impulse to the devotions of the people, would 
 probably be a more worthy object of admiration to the 
 Abbot and Convent of Eynesham, to whom the advowson 
 by the donation of Alexander de Barton, had come to belong, 
 than the former saint, in whose history there was not anything 
 striking to them of local or circumstantial interest. The con- 
 secration of the church in all probability took place if it were 
 not already consecrated either in 1238, 22-23, Henry III., 
 when there was "a solemn dedication of many churches in the 
 diocese of Lincoln, and particularly in the county of Oxford by 
 Kobert Grosthead, Bishop of Lincoln, and William Brewer, 
 Bishop of Exeter,"t or in the same year as that of the adjoin- 
 ing parish of Sandford, 1273,1. 2. Ed. I.+ when the bishop 
 of Cloyne, acting for the bishop of Lincoln, in whose diocese 
 the county of Oxford was then comprehended, made a cir- 
 cuit for the purpose of consecrating churches in these parts. 
 At that time it probably too became possessed of the house 
 and glebe lands, for according to Kennett, Vol. 1, p. 314, 
 " No church could be legally consecrated without such al- 
 lotment of house and glebe generally made by the Lord of 
 the Manor, who thereby became patron of the church, other 
 persons at the time of dedication often contributed small 
 
 t Kennett, Par. Antiq.. Vol. 1, p. 312. Ed. Oxford, 1818. 
 $ Ib. p. 395.
 
 WESTOOTT BARTON. 13 
 
 portions of ground, which is the reason why, in many parishes, 
 the glebe is not only distant from the manor but lies in 
 remote divided portions." The benefice is a rectory with 
 'cure of souls, a species of preferment conferring upon its 
 owner the title of " Parson" or as it may otherwise be 
 described the defender of the rights of the church in Propria 
 Persona" the entire revenues of the living are thus retained 
 for their original uses in him, and in this respect it differs from 
 an ancient* vicarage, as a vicar is a minister deputed to serve 
 in vice rectoris, and has only a portion of the ecclesiastical 
 emoluments which his superior may have assigned to him for 
 his services. Thus the former has the great and small tithes, 
 andthe latter generally only the small, with the glebe and house 
 of residence ; the patronage of the church, or right of presenta- 
 tion to the rectory upon the occurrency of a vacancy, was 
 given previous to the year 1184, 30-31. Henry II., by 
 Alexander de Barton to the Abbey of Eynesham.f After the 
 dissolution of that monastery, it appears again to have fallen 
 by purchase into the hands of the Lord of the Manor,* and 
 again to have been alienated from the manor about the year 
 1600, and since that date it has frequently been transferred 
 from one possessor to another ; it is now the patronage of 
 the Eev. John Young Seagrave, son of the late rector S. Y. 
 Seagrave. In 1292-3, 22-23 Ed. I., in the Taxatio,R Me. 
 the value is stated to be 4 6s. 8d. By the Thesaurus Rer. 
 Eccl., by John Ecton, in 1754, it is returned as worth 7 ; 
 in the King's books, and as having a certified value of 75, 
 subject to a charge of 14s. for yearly tenths, and as being 
 in the patronage of the Duke of Marlborough. This would 
 seem to be an error ; if, however, it were for any time in his 
 possession, it had been restored to the family of Welchman 
 before a right of presentation occurred to his Grace. By the 
 Clergy List of 1 846 (Rev. Mavor, and Thomas Coles, patrons) 
 the value was sent in at 179, with a house ; and upon the 
 
 * By an act of the last Session of the unreformed Parliament of 1868, this 
 title of "Vicar has been extended to Perpetual Curates and all other beneficed 
 Clergy not being Rectors. 
 
 t Appendix, No. i. 
 
 + Appendix, No. xii. 
 
 Appendix, No i.
 
 14 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 same authority ; ten years later it appears to be worth 
 230 per annum. The gross rental of the rectory according 
 to the Poor Eate assessment of 1868, January 1st, is settled 
 at 354 6s., with a residence. The rectorial buildings 
 formerly stood in the close to the east, bounding the 
 churchyard, they were of a very inferior character. The 
 house was too mean for the residence of the rector. In the 
 year 1838, the rector, S. Y. Seagrave removed them to their 
 present site, and at a considerable cost built a new manse, 
 with offices, yards, stables, &c., and laid out the pleasure 
 grounds, gardens, and plantations. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 LIST OF RECTORS AND PATRONS. 
 
 In the grant of the Church to Eynsham Abbey, fol. xxxv. 
 See Appendix No 1, c. 1180. Martin Pbr. Temp. Alexander 
 de Barton. 
 
 Rot. Arch. Ox. Dodsworth MS., Vol. 107, an. xix. 
 
 1225 Abbas de Eynesham p r . ad Eccl. de parva Barton, 
 salva Thomae de Barton Capellan. vicaria sua in eadem. 
 
 Extracts from the Lincoln Registers of Institutions, by the 
 Bishop of Lincoln. Original in Latin. Harl. MS. Brit. 
 Mus. 6950 6954. Barton Parva. 
 
 1228 Walter de St. Edmund, Subdeacon, presented to the 
 Church of Little Barton (because Alexander, the last 
 Rector, received of Benefices with the cure of souls) 
 by the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham. 
 
 1232 Richard de Eston, Subdeacon, presented to the Church 
 of Little Barton by the Abbot and Convent of Eyne- 
 sham. 
 
 1250 Master William de Poumeray, Subdeacon, presented 
 to the Church of Little Berton by the Abbot and 
 Convent of Eynesham.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 15 
 
 1267 16 Kal. Jan. Robert de la Pomerey, Subdeacon, pre- 
 sented by the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham to 
 the Church of Little Barton, vacant by the death of 
 Master William de Pomerey. 
 
 1299 3 Cal. Augt. Nicholas de Clanefield Capellan. pre- 
 sented to the Church of Little Berton by the Abbot 
 and Convent of Eynesham, vacant by the death of 
 Robt. de la Pomerey. 
 
 1314 15 Cal. Apr. William de Aynho presented by the 
 Abbot and Convent of Eynesham, vacant by the 
 death of Nicholas. 
 
 1324 11 Kal. Jun. William de Eynho, Rector of Barton 
 Parva, of the Patronage of the Abbot and Convent of 
 Eynesham, exchanged with William Welymot, Vicar 
 of Hornden, London diocese. 
 
 1332 17 Kal. Mai. Peter de Barton, Clerk, presented by 
 Brother John Abbot and the Convent of Eynesham 
 to the Church of Barton, vacant by the death of Sir 
 Alan de Bolewell. 
 
 Additional from the Rolls in the British Museum. 
 
 1504 20 August. Master Thomas Halle, M.A., Priest, pre- 
 sented by the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham to 
 the Church of Westcot Barton, otherwise called Little 
 Barton, by the death of Master Richard Smith. Reg. 
 William Smyth, Bp. of Lincoln. 
 
 1513 April 3. Sir Robert Fenton, Chaplain, presented by 
 the Abbot and Convent of Eynesham to the Church 
 of Westcote, otherwise Little Barton, by the death of 
 Master Thomas Halle. Beg. William Smyth. 
 
 From the Voter Ecclesiasticus. 
 1534 Drugonus Fever, Rector. 
 
 Institutions from the Registers of the Bishop of Oxford. 
 Westcote Barton. 
 
 1557 Aug. 13. William Webb, presented by William Rayns- 
 ford, of WyUcot. 
 

 
 16 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 1566 July 6. William Cowper, presented by John Cupper 
 on the death of William Webb. 
 
 1572 June 14. John Polly* 
 
 1584 Sept. 13. Richard Gregson.t 
 
 1640 Sept. 5. Thomas Belcher, presented by William Bel- 
 cher, sen., of Steeple Aston, yeoman. 
 
 1680 Oct. 12. Edward Cockson, M.A, presented by Henry 
 Cockson, Clerk, on the death of Thomas Belcher. 
 
 1712 May 20. William Welchman, M. A., presented by John 
 Welchman, of Dodford, Gent., on the death of Edward 
 Cockson. 
 
 1749 Oct. 26. John Blake, M.A., presented by John Welch- 
 man, of Brackley, on the death of William Welchman. 
 
 1760 June 6. John Seagrave, B.A., presented by Constance 
 and William Welchman and Samuel Seagrave on the 
 cession of John Blake. 
 
 1761 May 20. William Farebrother, M.A, presented by 
 Edward Seagrave on the death of John Seagrave. 
 
 1763 Sept. 21. Edward Seagrave, M.A, presented by John 
 Welchman and Susannah Seagrave on the cession of 
 William Farebrother. 
 
 1805 Dec. 12. Edward Seagrave, B.A., presented on the 
 death of Edward Seagrave, M.A. 
 
 1813 May 6. John Seagrave, presented by William Mavor 
 and others on the death of Edward Seagrave. 
 
 1836 June 7. Samuel Young Seagrave, presented by him- 
 self on the death of John Seagrave. 
 
 1852 March 3. Edmund Leopold Lockyer, presented by 
 Henrietta Segrave, executrix of the will of Samuel 
 Young Segrave on the death of Samuel Young Sea- 
 grave. 
 
 * f These two names are not found in the Bishop's Registers, but are sup- 
 plied from a volume in the Record Office containing the names of persons com- 
 pounding for first fruits, vol. i., 1556 1660, in which also is seen the entry of 
 William Cupper, 1556, Oct. 31, who is doubtless identical with rector William 
 Cow]} (abbrev.), both on account of a connexion which might not unnaturally 
 be looked for in such cases between the patron and presentee, and the time 
 which had just elapsed for the payment into the exchequer of the first fruits, 
 which was required to be made within three months after the induction. He 
 is also the same with William Cows, mentioned in the Annals, p. 33.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 17 
 
 Richard Gregson was Parson of Westcott Barton for 
 fifty -six years. His handwriting in the Parish Register for 
 so long a period displays a steadiness and uniformity of 
 character much to be admired. His successor, Thomas 
 Belcher, was one of those high principled clergy who in 
 the time of the rebellion " endured a great fight of afflic- 
 tions, and took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, had 
 trial of cruel mockings yea, moreover, of bonds and im- 
 prisonments, and wandered about, being destitute, afflicted, 
 tormented," preferring rather to sacrifice all earthly advan- 
 tages than break their loyalty and faith to " Church and 
 King." He is thus spoken of in Walker's Sufferings of the 
 Clergy, foL, Lond., 1714, Part, ii., p. 207 :- 
 " Belchiere Barton. 
 
 " He was succeeded by one Bo wen, who used him very 
 ill. For he not only seized the corn in the field, which was 
 Mr. Belchiere's beyond all question, but refused also to pay 
 him the fifths. Notwithstanding which, he hath been since 
 canonized in the Bartholomew Legend. Mr. Belchiere was 
 also driven out of the parish, and not permitted to keep a 
 school for his subsistance." 
 
 This notice affords an explanation of the entry given in 
 p. 26 among the extracts from the Parish Register books of 
 the baptism of " Peter, the son of John Bowen, minister, and 
 Elizabeth, his wife." Mr. Bowen, who had been put irregu- 
 larly into the living, upon the restoration, " when the King 
 did enjoy his own again/' and the passing of the Act of 
 Uniformity in 1662, was removed to make way once more 
 for the rightful minister, Thomas Belcher. Bowen does not 
 appear to have been a person of any note ; his name is 
 entered without remark in " The Account of the Ministers 
 who were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration in 1660 
 by or before the Act of Uniformity, printed in the 2nd vol. 
 of the 2nd Ed., 1713, of Dr. Calamy's abridgment of Mr. 
 Baxter's History of his Life and Times." 
 
 Edward Cockson, M.A., Rector of Westcott Barton, Ox- 
 fordshire, was the author of sundry treatises against the 
 Quakers, one of which is entitled 
 
 C 2
 
 18 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 " The Serpent's Head Broken ; and the grand design 
 against the true Spirit, and to destroy the true 
 Christian religion in erecting Quakerism, discovered. 
 Being a vindication of Quakerism dissected and laid 
 open against the frivolous, idle, and causeless cavils 
 of John Whiting, a principal pillar of that Anti- 
 christian,heretical, and diabolical sect." 8vo, Lond., 
 1708, pamphlet, 280, Bodl. Lib. Cat. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 MONUMENTS. 
 
 I HAVE not information of more than two monuments, 
 which, with the exception of the arched tomb of the 13th 
 century in the wall of the south aisle, and of those which, 
 with it, were noticed by Dr. Rawlinson, c. 1720, have been 
 erected within the church. The first the inscription on 
 which is given below is a mural tablet in black marble, 
 three feet and six inches in height by two feet in width, 
 surmounted by the crest and coat of arms of the family, 
 engraved and painted with its metals and colours. It is 
 now placed against the south wall in the tower ; its original 
 site was on the wall of the south aisle, to the east of the 
 door, and its removal to its present situation was effected 
 during the repairs of 1856. The other was also a mural 
 tablet of black marble, and occupied a position on the north 
 wall, near where the pulpit now is. This was removed at 
 the same, time as the former, and is supposed to have been 
 laid in its entirety beneath the pavement just below where 
 it had been previously put up. It was to the memory of an 
 infant of the Taylor family, who owned the " Park Place " 
 estate. The entry of the burial is thus made in the parish 
 register " Sarah, the daughter of William Taylor, Gent., of 
 Charlbury, Dec. 1st, 1746." The tiles of memorial in the 
 chancel, on black marble, six inches square, one inscribed
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 19 
 
 f Thomas Belcher, Rector, 1680 ; the other, f Edward 
 Cockson, Rector, 1711, are also of the date of the repairs of 
 1856. The original stones were deposited under the new 
 pavement. Others, over the graves of those buried in the 
 chancel or in the church, have disappeared beyond the 
 memory of any living inhabitant of Westcott Barton. In. 
 the churchyard, on the south of the chancel, is an ancient 
 altar tomb of the 1 4th century, six feet six inches in length 
 by two feet nine inches in width, with quatrefoil panelling 
 at the ends, the sides being of modern ashlar work, plain. 
 Upon the slab is a recess, two feet six inches in length, from 
 which it is evident a brass plate of a figure, with an inscrip- 
 tion, has been carried away. There was a similar one about 
 five feet further to the west, the upper portion of which, 
 being in ruins in 1856, was removed, and the gravel path- 
 way was made to go over the base and plinth, which remain 
 in situ under the surface. There is not any other tomb 
 calling for particular notice. Till within the last few years, 
 the gravestones were of the ordinary debased character, not 
 bearing upon them any specially Christian emblems. A 
 few have lately been now introduced more demonstrative of 
 the great truths of Christianity. The earliest stones of 
 memorial are to the memory of members of the families of 
 Buswell, Bathe, Steward, Castle, Evans, Martin, Hollis, 
 Dandridge, Hall, Coal or Coles, Wells, Lankford, Parsons, 
 Gibberd, which are all here inserted in order as they 
 are buried. The first dates back no farther than they 
 1699. In the present century there are stones bearing 
 the names of West, Chilton, Crook, Jarvis, Gardner, Seagrave, 
 Manning, Colegrove, Salmon, Knibbs, Marshall : 
 
 IN MEMORY OP 
 
 JOHN BUSWELL, GENT., 
 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LlFR 
 
 SEPT. lira, 1768, AGED 71 YEARS. 
 
 ALSO 
 OP ELIZABETH, WIFE OF 
 
 MR. JOHN BUSWELL, 
 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LlFE 
 
 JUNE 23BD, 1767, 
 
 AGED 69 YEARS.
 
 20 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 The coat of arms on the monument is Argent five fusils 
 Gules in Fess between three Bear's heads, erased Gules, 
 muzzled Or. The arms impaled are those granted to the 
 name of Gardner, of Stoke Ash, Co. Suffolk (Encyc. Herald, 
 Burke). For a crest, a Bear's Head, as in the coat. 
 
 Dr. Rawlinson visited this parish in the earlier part of the 
 last centuiy, and the following is recorded in Vol. II. p. 213 
 of his manuscript collections for Oxfordshire, preserved in 
 the Bodleian Library : 
 
 WESTCOTE BARTON. 
 
 In the chancel, on a white freestone gravestone, in capitals, is this 
 inscription 
 
 HIC JACET MATTH^EUS WEIGHT 
 MEDICUS ET CHIRURGUS OMNI 
 VTRTUTE ET PIETATE EGEEGIUS 
 UXORI (DUM VIVEBAT) CHARISSIMUS 
 FILIIS RELICTIS VICIMIS ADMODUM 
 BENIGNUS AMICORUM DESIDERIUM 
 ET DOLOR OSSA EJUS HIC 
 TENET SARCOPHAGUS ANIMA CCELIS 
 
 HABITAT 
 NATUS FUIT MAR. 18 
 
 A.D. 1625 
 OBIIT DECEMBRIS 18 
 
 A.D. 1674. 
 
 Cn another, near and like the former, in capitals, is this inscrip- 
 tion 
 
 HERE LIETH THE BODY 
 
 OF ELIZABETH LATE 
 WIFE OF MATTHEW WRIGHT 
 
 WHO DECEASED 
 
 MARCH 19TH A.D. 
 
 1672 ,S:TAT SILE 42. 
 
 Tn one of the north windows of the body of the church 
 
 rate pro ana S^tlPm Jfofcgnfj . . . 
 &rmg: tit pro ana &ngiwtte ux: 
 
 In another of the north windows 
 
 ana SfalJte 33allofo 
 ux : ?ug. 
 
 On the south side is an ancient arch.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 21 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 PAROCHIAL SCHOOL. 
 
 A SCHOOL lias existed here for about forty years. It was 
 first established under the private management of Mr. 
 Anthony Jepson, who conducted it for a period of twenty- 
 nine years. In 1836 it became transferred into a week-day 
 and Sunday school, under the patronage and support of the 
 Rector, Rev. S. Y. Seagrave. Master Jepson was succeeded 
 in his office in 1852 by Miss Thompson, who was appointed 
 as teacher by the Rev. Edmund L. Lockyer. She died in 
 1861, and Miss McColl, the present schoolmistress, was 
 chosen to supply her place. It is a mixed school, and is 
 held in a cottage, which is rented by the rector for the 
 purpose. The expenses attending it are met by a small 
 weekly payment on the part of the children, by private 
 subscriptions, and by a special collection at the church 
 offertory at Christinas. The ages of the scholars on the 
 1st of January, 1868, varied from two years to ten. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 CHARITABLE BEQUESTS AND CHARITY LAND. 
 
 A TABLE of benefactions, of which the following is a copy, 
 hung up formerly within the church : 
 
 Mr. Norwood, long since an inhabitant of Westcott 
 Barton, bequeathed a legacy of ten pounds to the poor of 
 the said parish, the interest thereof to be distributed yearly 
 at Christmas. 
 
 Mr. Ford, many years since an inhabitant of Westcott 
 Barton, bequeathed also a legacy of ten pounds to the poor
 
 22 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 of the said parish, the interest thereof to be distributed 
 yearly at Easter in bread. 
 
 Mr. Edmund Buswell, of Westcott Barton, bequeathed 
 five pounds, the interest to be applied as above. * 
 
 Mr. Robert Buswell, an inhabitant of Westcott Barton, 
 who died August 5th, 1703, bequeathed also a legacy of 
 ten pounds to .the poor of the said parish, the interest 
 thereof to be distributed yearly half at Easter, half at 
 Christmas in bread. 
 
 Mr. John Buswell, of North Aston, who died Jan. 14, 
 1725, bequeathed also a legacy of five pounds to the poor 
 of the said parish, the interest thereof to be distributed at 
 Christmas in bread. 
 
 Mr. Robert Buswell, jun., an inhabitant of Westcott 
 Barton, son of the above Robert Buswell, who died Jan. 30, 
 173g, bequeathed also a legacy of ten pounds to the poor of 
 the said parish, the interest thereof to be distributed yearly 
 at Christmas and Easter in money or bread. 
 
 The ground called the Ham'" in Middle Barton was pur- 
 chased with the above sums for the use of the poor of 
 Westcott Barton for ever. 
 
 The deed of conveyance of the land, consisting of one 
 acre or thereabouts, in trust for the overseers, is dated 13th 
 and 14th of April, 1750 It bears an indorsement that " the 
 purchase-money mentioned in the within written indenture 
 was given to the poor of Westcott Barton by the several 
 persons mentioned. The produce thereof to be distributed to 
 the poor of Westcott Barton as is in the several wills of the 
 above-named persons, reference being thereunto had, may 
 appeare." 
 
 The articles of agreement for the sale and purchase of the 
 freehold are preserved with the writings. 
 
 An account of this charity may be seen in the report of 
 the Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities in 
 1824 and 1825, and ordered by the House of Commons to be 
 printed on the 26th of May, 1825. 
 
 * This land, called in the award the " Holm Meadow," is charged under the 
 Act of Inclosure with two half-yearly payments to the Duke of Marlborough, 
 owner of the tithes of Middle Barton, amounting in the whole to two shillings 
 a year.
 
 WESTOOTT BARTON. 23 
 
 The close is therein stated to be let to Edward Townsend, 
 as yearly tenant, at the rent of four pounds, which is laid 
 out in the purchase of bread, and distributed among the 
 poor at Christmas and Easter. On the last occasion, at that 
 date, there were forty-one families who partook of it, each 
 having one loaf. 
 
 It is only necessary to add that the land is let now 
 (Easter, 1868) to Thomas Stockford for three years, at the 
 yearly rent, payable in advance, of four pounds fifteen shil- 
 lings ; and at the last distribution this enabled the trustees 
 to give two four-pound loaves to thirty-five families. 
 
 THE POOR'S ALLOTMENT FOR FUEL. 
 
 The origin of this charity is given in the extracts from 
 the Inclosure Award. The Westcott Barton portion appears 
 to have been set out, and the rent distributed in accord- 
 ance with the terms of the Act of Parliament down to 
 the year 1835, from which date to the year 1850 much 
 irregularity and mismanagement in the mode of letting 
 this plot was found to be going on. When the Eev. 
 Edmund L. Lockyer succeeded to the rectory, and became 
 consequently a trustee, an inquiry was instituted, which 
 resulted in an opportune reformation, and a plan being 
 adopted more in accordance with the due execution of 
 the trust ; and it was arranged to let the land to the 
 poor of the parish in the first instance, if such were found 
 willing to take it, in quantities not exceeding one quarter 
 of an acre, and at a rent amounting to seven shillings and 
 sixpence the lot, the rents at the end of the year to be 
 spent in the purchase of coal, which should be equally dis- 
 tributed at the cottages in Westcott Barton, the tenants of 
 which had been one clear year in occupation of the premises. 
 By this means the poor were supposed to obtain a double 
 advantage : not only the rent as landlords, but the tenants' 
 profits also. The rent of the land at the last audit (1868) 
 enabled the trustees to effect a distribution of eight hundred- 
 weight of coal to each cottage entitled to receive it. The 
 management of the trust has of late years been conducted
 
 24 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 by the rector, in conjunction with the parish officers, a 
 mode of proceeding considered permissible under the Statute 
 2 Will. IV., ch. 42, dated 1st June, 1832. 
 
 An application having now been made to the Charity 
 Commissioners of England and Wales, with reference to the 
 appointment of new trustees in the place of the original 
 ones deceased, a scheme has been furnished which, bearing 
 date June the 15th, 1869, is to rule the charity, vesting the 
 real property of the same in the Official Trustee of Charity 
 Lands in trust for the charity, and appointing trustees to 
 act in the administration of it, jointly with the Rector of 
 Westcott Barton and the Vicar of Steeple Barton, the pre- 
 sent trustees. After the payment of the outgoings and 
 expenses of management, the commissioners order the 
 balance to be divided annually into two equal moieties, one 
 of which is to be paid to the Westcott Barton members of 
 the trust, and the other to those appointed for Middle 
 Barton, and the money is to be applied by the respective 
 trustees to the benefit of the most deserving and necessitous 
 inhabitants of the respective parishes and liberty, either in 
 winter clothing or fuel, to individuals, or in aid of clothing 
 or fuel club funds, as shall seem most advantageous to them 
 in the opinion of the trustees. The land is now (Michaelmas, 
 1869) let in lots, at five shillings a chain, free of all rates 
 and taxes. 
 
 The new Trustees are For Westcott Barton : The Rector 
 and Churchwardens of the Parish, the Rev. Jenner Marshall, 
 clerk ; Henry Cole, baker. For Middle Barton : The Vicar 
 and Churchwardens of Steeple Barton, Alexander William 
 Hall, Esq. ; Mr. William Wing.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 25 
 
 CHAPTEE VIII. 
 
 THE PARISH REGISTERS AND THE OFFICERS* ACCOUNT 
 
 BOOKS. 
 
 PARISH registers are seldom to be met with of an earlier 
 date than the middle of the sixteenth century. Before the 
 Eeformation, registers were kept by the monks in their 
 religious houses ; and it is to be lamented that, at the 
 dissolution of the monasteries, when their libraries were 
 dispersed, the registers should have been lost or destroyed. 
 The 70th Canon of 1603 orders ministers to keep a register 
 of christenings, burials, and marriages. One and the same 
 volume was made to serve for every registration in a parish, 
 and there was no schedule in the book of particulars of entry. 
 In the year 1812 registers became regulated by Statute 52 
 Geo. III. ch. 146, and baptisms, burials, and marriages were 
 to have each their respective register-book, with proper 
 forms of entry printed and scheduled. 
 
 The registers of "Westcott Barton commence with the year 
 1559. The entries previous to 1561 are, for our purposes, 
 totally illegible from obliteration, but from that date, for 
 some years following, they are clear, and are beautifully 
 written in a set and uniform character. After this mode 
 however was given up, and each writer formed the letters 
 according to his own fashion, the entries are often care- 
 lessly and indistinctly made. There are only two volumes 
 of registers exclusive of those commencing with the new 
 Act of 181213. The first closes with the year 1678. The 
 second repeats the entries of that year, and concludes with 
 1812. From 1638 to 1662 the entries are made without 
 care, and from 1685 to 1695 there is an absence of any 
 entry, with the exception of the baptism of Kobert, the son 
 of Robert and Susanna Buswell, March 28, 1693. 
 
 From 1559 to 1677 there are entered 307 christenings, 
 185 burials; 1678 to 1812, 532 christenings, 390 burials ; 
 1813 to 186 7, Dec. 31, 447 christenings, 277 burials.
 
 26 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 The following extracts are a few more worthy of notice : 
 On the 25th of June, 1656, Peter, the son of John Bowen, 
 minister, and Elizabeth, his wife, was baptized.* 
 1566 The 29th day of August, was John Han well baptized 
 
 at home, and buried the same day. 
 1608 There is the expression, unusual in later times, of Old 
 
 Gadwyffe : " Old Gadwyffe Offield dyed and was 
 
 buried 21 day of August/' 
 
 1610 Old Gadwyffe Tapsill 1633 Old Goodwyffe Hirst. 
 1612 Mr. John Norwoode dyed and was buried 1 3th day of 
 
 Aprilf 
 1649 "William Belcher, the son of Thomas Belcher, and 
 
 Elizabeth, his wife, was buried the 15th day of Feb- 
 ruary, in the year of our Lord 1649, being 23 years 
 
 of age, and was buried in the chancel." 
 1654 "Joana, the wife of Thomas fforde, buried in our 
 
 parish church upon the 9th day of February, in the 
 
 year of our Lord 1654. She was buried in our 
 
 Church." 
 1640 " Richard Gregson, some years Parson of this parish, 
 
 was buried here 28th of March." 
 1668 " Thomas Belcher, buried the 21 day of January, who 
 
 dyed at the Burnt House at Steeple Barton, and was 
 
 buried in our chancel of Westcott Barton Church." 
 1642 "Cornelius, the son of John Newman, and Mary, his 
 
 wife, christened the 4th of November, being a souldier 
 
 for the King."* 
 1680 "Thomas Belcher, Hector of this parish, was buried 
 
 Oct. 14th." 
 
 In the autumn of the year 1764 a fatal epidemic seems 
 to have prevailed in the village, for, from the beginning of 
 July to the end of that year, there were the extraordinary 
 number of sixteen burials, of which six were of members of 
 the Buswell family. The average of burials for the ten 
 
 * Mr. Bowen was the Commonwealth Minister spoken of at p. 17. 
 t Mr. John Norwoode was probably the donor of the charity (p. 21). 
 
 $ The battle of Edgehill, distant about 20 miles, occurred on the 23rd of 
 October. It is probable, therefore, that John Newman was engaged in that 
 tight, and survived the conflict.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 27 
 
 previous years was less than three, and of christenings 
 less than four. The year following this great mortality, the 
 christenings rose to eight, and the average of the next ten 
 was in excess of the previous. 
 
 1795 "John Buswell, commonly called 'Black Jack/ was 
 buried March 22nd." 
 
 Persons in the earliest times were called by a single 
 name, but, as population increased, they began to acquire an 
 additional one, which was usually that of the individual 
 bearer's place of abode, or the business he pursued, or some 
 peculiarity in his character. This seems to be the latest 
 mode, and a common one, for Mr. Jordan remarks, at p. 449 
 of his Parochial History of Enstone, that, " when families 
 were numerous, it had become either necessary or customary 
 to attach a soubriquet to the name of those who had received 
 the same Christian names, in order to distinguish them from 
 one another thus in a family of the name of Boulton, this 
 had been done in order to distinguish several John Boultons" 
 that they had amongst them, and so we find these entries : 
 In the Enstone registers 1605, Thomas Boulton, son of 
 black John, was buried xxii of February 1606. Philip 
 Boulton, son of blacke John Bolton and Elizabeth his wife 
 was baptized the iiii of March. 
 
 The register of marriages down to 1812, is extremely 
 defective, the first entry is in the year 1561, the entries in 
 the second volume commence with the year 1705, and end 
 with 1753, and during this period there were forty-six 
 weddings, of which only ten were of parties, one or the other 
 or both belonging to this parish. From some cause prevalent 
 at the time, which the new marriage act probably brought to 
 a termination, persons in those days would resort to the 
 neighbouring churches for this rite rather than to their own. 
 
 The order of surnames as they made their appearance for 
 the first time in the parish taken from these registers may 
 not be without interest to those connected with the parish. 
 In the following tables the first column of figures shows the 
 year in which the name is entered for the first time in the 
 register of baptisms; the second column of figures shows when 
 it appears the last time among the baptisms; and the third co- 
 lumn shows the date of the latest entry in the register of burials*
 
 28 
 
 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 
 1ST 
 
 VOL. 
 
 
 1628 
 
 Twynam 
 
 
 1561 
 
 Hopkins 
 
 1578 
 
 1628 
 
 1628 
 
 Evens 
 
 )1722 1810 
 
 
 Busbe 
 
 1721 
 
 1752 
 
 
 Evans 
 
 I 
 
 
 Fylde 
 
 
 1592 
 
 1629 
 
 Ditton 
 
 1643 1677 
 
 
 Morley 
 
 1564 
 
 
 1630 
 
 Avay 
 
 
 
 Hanwell 
 
 1607 
 
 1601 
 
 
 Cry 
 
 1634 
 
 
 Turner 
 
 1575 
 
 
 1631 
 
 Rush 
 
 1682 1716 
 
 1564 
 
 Smith 
 
 1685 
 
 1779 
 
 1633 
 
 Hoare 
 
 1683 1722 
 
 
 Bull 
 
 
 1602 
 
 1634 
 
 Reynolds 
 
 
 
 Coupper 
 
 ) 
 
 
 1635 
 
 Sutton 
 
 1670 1683 
 
 
 Cowper 
 Cupper 
 
 >1617 
 
 1607 
 
 1636 
 
 Pert 
 Piert 
 
 j-1683 1727 
 
 
 Coopper 
 
 
 1655 
 
 
 Judge 
 
 1638 1645 
 
 1567 
 
 Done 
 
 1602 
 
 1590 
 
 
 Lovell 
 
 
 
 Hall 
 
 1619 
 
 
 1638 
 
 Abraham 
 
 
 
 Haul 
 
 
 
 
 Andrews 
 
 
 
 Saunders 
 
 1583 
 
 1612 
 
 1641 
 
 Winter 
 
 1757 
 
 1575 
 
 Gilberd 
 Gilbert 
 
 J1584 
 
 1619 
 
 1653 
 
 Farbrother 
 Banbury 
 
 1697 1731 
 1655 
 
 
 Allen 
 
 
 1663 
 
 1652 
 
 Taylor 
 
 1655 1633 
 
 
 Gibs 
 
 1598 
 
 1622 
 
 1649 
 
 Buswell 
 
 1785 1824 
 
 1578 
 1581 
 
 Smart 
 Mil way 
 
 1598 
 
 1624 
 1630 
 
 1656 
 
 Kings 
 King 
 
 J1661 1739 
 
 1583 
 
 Gye 
 
 
 
 
 Bowen 
 
 1657 1645 
 
 1584 
 
 Bricknell 
 
 1600 
 
 1753 
 
 
 Lobe 
 
 
 1585 
 
 Hiat 
 
 1603 
 
 
 1657 
 
 Goffe 
 
 
 
 Dennet 
 
 1588 
 
 
 1662 
 
 Councer 
 
 1668 
 
 
 Sleamaker 
 
 1588 
 
 1637 
 
 1663 
 
 Wright 
 
 1667 }679 
 
 1588 
 
 Newman 
 
 1642 
 
 1588 
 
 
 Cockson 
 
 1684 1711 
 
 
 Warland 
 
 
 
 
 Parker 
 
 1668 1672 
 
 1590 
 
 Grigson 
 Gregson 
 
 }l603 
 
 1640 
 
 1678 
 
 Haynes 
 Brownson 
 
 1663 
 1716 
 
 
 Ward 
 
 
 
 
 Nown 
 
 1685 1685 
 
 1592 
 
 Marten 
 Martin 
 
 }l682 
 
 1726 
 
 
 
 
 1594 
 
 Offield 
 
 1642 
 
 1644 
 
 
 
 
 1602 
 
 Harris 
 
 1643 
 
 1663 
 
 BURIAL 
 
 ENTRIES OP 
 
 NAMES NOT IN 
 
 
 Aris 
 
 
 
 THE 
 
 LIST OF CHRISTENINGS. 
 
 1603 
 
 Hirst 
 
 
 1644 
 
 
 
 
 1604 
 
 Johnson 
 
 1612 
 
 1632 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tapsell 
 
 1612 
 
 1613 
 
 1562 
 
 Colyns 
 
 Dawkins 
 
 1607 
 
 Ffranklin 
 
 1673 
 
 1717 
 
 
 Keye 
 
 1625 Wilkins 
 
 
 Savage 
 
 1661 
 
 1661 
 
 1578 
 
 Stone 
 
 1628 Alcocke 
 
 
 Little 
 
 1736 
 
 1777 
 
 1584 
 
 Rippingall 
 
 Robinson 
 
 1614 
 
 Becket 
 
 
 
 1597 
 
 Parsons 
 
 1636 Long 
 
 
 Millin 
 
 
 1622 
 
 
 Bolt 
 
 1637 Brooke 
 
 1618 
 
 Fidlar 
 
 1621 
 
 1644 
 
 
 Wilder 
 
 1642 Love 
 
 
 Payne 
 
 1624 
 
 1661 
 
 1612 
 
 Norwoode 
 
 Hoopp 
 
 
 Belcher 
 
 
 1680 
 
 and 25 
 
 
 1655 Hewet 
 
 1619 
 
 Clarke 
 
 1622 
 
 1661 
 
 1614 
 
 Cumber 
 
 1656 Mander 
 
 
 Willis 
 
 
 1669 
 
 1620 
 
 Harrington 
 
 i fifi 1 } r 1 
 
 
 1620 
 
 Hoiden 
 
 1641 
 
 1644 
 
 and 44 
 
 
 1669 Beards 
 
 
 Marry 
 
 
 
 1622 
 
 Lambert 
 
 1671 Addams 
 
 1623 
 
 Denyst 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1624 
 
 Fford 
 
 1677 
 
 1658 
 
 

 
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 
 
 29 
 
 2KD VOL. 
 
 1754 Gibbard ) 
 
 
 1682 Swayne 
 
 
 Gilberd \ 
 
 1821 
 
 Cross ) 
 Crasse 5 
 
 1754 1769 
 
 Parsons 
 1759 Townsend 
 
 1848 1861 
 1774 1795 
 
 1683 Rogerson 
 
 1719 
 
 1760 Rawlins 
 
 1758 
 
 1685 Bowler 
 
 1707 1737 
 
 1761 Hollis 
 
 1855 1861 
 
 Rogers 
 
 1719 
 
 Nicols 
 
 1813 1807 
 
 Medford 
 
 
 1763 Langford 
 
 1773 1804 
 
 1698 Bathe j 
 Bave i 
 
 1730 1754 
 
 1764 Boddington 1 
 Bodenton ' 
 
 1775 1765 
 
 1699 Stringer 
 
 
 1765 Praf 
 
 
 1701 Vicars 
 
 1720 1742 
 
 Praphat 
 
 
 Vigers 
 
 
 Pro vis 
 
 
 1702 Simons 
 
 1826 1846 
 
 Proffet 
 
 1865 1865 
 
 Lee 
 
 1708 1826 
 
 Probate 
 
 
 1708 Dandridge 
 
 1721 1751 
 
 Probetts 
 
 
 1709 Sandars 
 
 1749 
 
 Profit J 
 
 
 1710 Walmsley 
 
 1711 1726 
 
 Kettle 
 
 1781 1810 
 
 Wells 
 
 1736 1765 
 
 Venfield 
 
 1778 1799 
 
 Petty 
 
 1765 
 
 1767 Worley 
 
 
 1716 Hugheys 
 
 
 1771 Doiley 
 
 1774 
 
 1717 Berry 
 
 
 Woodward 
 
 1808 1867 
 
 Asbiston 
 
 
 1772 Carter 
 
 1792 1839 
 
 1720 Skeysbrook 
 
 
 Brooks 
 
 1844 1861 
 
 1722 Holier 
 
 
 1775 Reeves 
 
 1840 1855 
 
 Rimel / 
 Ryman $ 
 
 1809 1819 
 
 1776 Coles 
 Bedwell 
 
 1855 1856 
 1825 1776 
 
 1723 Prat 
 1726 Pool 
 
 1768 1778 
 1729 
 
 1779 Bolton 
 Boulton 
 
 1865 1866 
 
 1728 Bagley 
 1729 Gubbins 
 
 1738 1736 
 1768 
 
 1781 Soden 
 1782 White 
 
 1798 
 1835 1839 
 
 1730 Castle 
 
 1832 1808 
 
 1783 Brangwin 
 
 1787 
 
 1731 Watson 
 
 1807 1832 
 
 1784 Seney 
 
 1819 
 
 Savings 
 
 1747 1759 
 
 Huckill 
 
 1 
 
 1732 Bagnel 
 
 
 Huckwell 
 
 > 1867 1864 
 
 1735 Skeeley 
 
 
 Hukken 
 
 1 
 
 1737 Eldridge 
 
 
 1787 Jonson 
 
 
 1738 Lewin } 
 
 1836 1839 
 
 1783 Jarvis 
 
 1855 1856 
 
 Luing f 
 
 
 1790 Heans 
 
 1793 
 
 Duffil ( 
 
 1772 1784 
 
 1791 Harris 
 
 
 Duffield ) 
 
 
 1794 Shilton 
 
 1 1806 1845 
 
 1740 Hedges 
 
 1752 1825 
 
 Chilton 
 
 } 
 
 Jones 
 
 
 1795 Churchill 
 
 
 Eglestone 
 
 1860 1786 
 
 1797 Fortnam 
 
 1864 1840 
 
 1741 Tanner 
 
 1756 1784 
 
 1798 Worfill 
 
 % 
 
 Bedding 
 
 
 Worfield 
 
 
 1743 Saloway 
 
 1758 1793 
 
 Worvill 
 
 j. 1863 1852 
 
 1745 Boader, a 
 
 
 Worful 
 
 
 Traveller 
 
 
 Worville 
 
 j 
 
 Woodenton 
 
 1762 
 
 1801 Young 
 
 1812 1823 
 
 1747 Ash } 
 Nash V 
 
 1827 1815 
 
 Steward 
 Stewart 
 
 } 1867 1867 
 
 Naish ) 
 
 
 1802 Elliot 
 
 
 1752 MitcheU 
 1754 Taylor 
 
 1752 
 1746 
 
 Matthews 
 Mathus 
 
 } 1845 1833
 
 30 
 
 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 1804 
 
 Wyhatt 
 
 1845 1853 
 
 1818 
 
 Fathers 
 
 
 
 
 Blaby 
 
 1824 1804 
 
 1819 
 
 Mason 
 
 
 
 
 Bennett 
 
 1861 
 
 1820 
 
 Smith 
 
 1865 
 
 1866 
 
 
 Fowler 
 
 1808 1816 
 
 
 Stickley 
 
 1827 
 
 
 
 Boffin 
 
 
 1821 
 
 Brain 
 
 1865 
 
 1859 
 
 1805 
 
 Allin 
 
 1810 1826 
 
 1823 
 
 Shaw 
 
 
 
 
 Keen 
 
 1856 1863 
 
 
 Green 
 
 1828 
 
 
 1806 
 
 Pope 
 
 
 
 Grant 
 
 
 
 
 Coxhead 
 
 1844 
 
 1824 
 
 Franklin 
 
 
 
 1807 
 
 Colegrove 
 Colgrove } 
 
 1811 1850 
 
 1826 
 
 *Buswell 
 Field 
 
 1866 
 
 1828 
 
 1867 
 
 
 Butler 
 
 1838 1835 
 
 
 Chadbon 
 
 1835 
 
 1832 
 
 1811 
 
 Davies 
 
 1830 
 
 1827 
 
 Hartless 
 
 
 
 1812 
 
 Saunders 
 
 1814 
 
 
 Finch 
 
 1863 
 
 1865 
 
 
 Gould 
 
 
 1828 
 
 Faulkner 
 
 1840 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Crook 
 
 
 I860 
 
 
 
 
 
 Haynes 
 
 
 
 BURIAL ENTRIES OF NAMES NOT IN THE 
 
 
 Abraham 
 
 1862 
 
 1863 
 
 
 .LIST OF CHRISTENINGS. 
 
 1829 
 
 Tayler 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1830 
 
 Hawkins 
 
 1834 
 
 1865 
 
 1680 
 
 Hicks 1740 
 
 Evans of Hor- 
 
 1831 
 
 Cross 
 
 1832 
 
 
 
 
 sham, Essex 
 
 
 Penn 
 
 1837 
 
 1833 
 
 1681 
 
 Shepherd 1743 
 
 Tayler a 
 
 
 Webb 
 
 1839 
 
 
 and 85 
 
 
 Traveller 
 
 1832 
 
 Heydon 
 
 
 
 1685 
 
 Busby of 1744 
 
 
 1833 
 
 Tustain 
 
 
 
 
 Bedford & 61 
 
 Grafton 
 
 1835 
 
 Wheeler 
 
 
 
 
 Baker 1746 
 
 Dad 
 
 
 Mills 
 
 
 
 1684 
 
 Batchelor 1748 
 
 Cooper 
 
 
 Clark 
 
 1865 
 
 1862 
 
 1701 
 
 Hanwell a 1750 
 Traveller 
 
 BoneaTravel- 
 ler 
 
 
 Jephson 
 Jepson 
 
 1 1856 
 
 1867 
 
 
 Blower of 
 
 Pryor 
 
 1836 
 
 Johnson 
 
 1840 
 
 
 
 London 
 
 
 1837 
 
 Zekel 
 
 
 
 1709 
 
 Berriinan 1754 
 
 Hadlard 
 
 1838 
 
 Pyman 
 
 
 1861 
 
 1717 
 
 Field 1765 
 
 Toms 
 
 
 Foster 
 
 
 
 1721 
 
 Colcot 1767 
 
 Cupper 
 
 
 Wren 
 
 
 
 1726 
 
 Kery of 1769 
 
 Turner 
 
 1839 
 
 Salmon 
 
 
 
 
 Enstone 
 
 
 1840 
 
 Manning 
 
 1844 
 
 1847 
 
 1731 
 
 Hartwell 1797 
 
 Williams 
 
 1842 
 
 Baker 
 
 1859 
 
 1854 
 
 
 &41 
 
 
 
 West 
 
 
 1857 
 
 1737 
 
 Foulkes 1801 
 
 Gibson 
 
 1848 
 
 Phipps 
 
 
 
 
 1809 
 
 Wootton 
 
 
 Gillam 
 
 1849 
 
 1847 
 
 
 
 
 1849 
 
 Gerard 
 
 
 1854 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mold 
 Mole 
 
 | 1858 
 
 1866 
 
 
 
 3RD AND 4TH 
 
 VOLS. 
 
 1851 
 
 Simpkins 
 
 
 1849 
 
 1813 
 
 Davis a Traveller 
 
 
 
 Yeatman 
 
 1855 
 
 1863 
 
 
 Davis 
 
 1865 1866 
 
 
 Stowe 
 
 
 
 1814 
 
 Hawkes 
 
 1850 1864 
 
 1852 
 
 Hiions 
 
 1853 
 
 
 
 Gardiner 
 
 1837 
 
 1854 
 
 Nickols 
 
 
 
 
 Wilkins 
 
 1860 1866 
 
 1855 
 
 Rose 
 
 1856 
 
 
 1815 
 
 Edwards 
 
 1825 
 
 1858 
 
 Cole 
 
 
 
 1816 
 
 Kilby 
 
 1832 
 
 
 Morgan 
 
 1862 
 
 
 
 TyrreU 
 
 1819 
 
 1859 
 
 Grimsbery 
 
 
 
 1817 
 
 Lowe 
 
 
 1860 
 
 Cato 
 
 
 
 * The Buswells who from this date appear in the Registers, are in no way re- 
 lated to the family of the same name formerly of the Manor.
 
 WESTOOTT BARTON. ,'U 
 
 I860 Beesley 
 
 1826 
 
 1828 Bartlett 
 
 Whitlock 
 
 
 and 36 
 
 Marshall 
 
 1864 1864 
 
 1833 Ward 
 
 Cleaver 
 
 
 1835 Warner 
 
 Maciarlaine 
 
 
 1838 Huggins 
 
 Kirby 
 
 1865 1861 
 
 1840 Seagrave 
 
 1862 Preedy 
 
 1861 
 
 and 58 
 
 1863 Allen 
 
 
 1841 Greenway 
 
 1866 Humphries 
 
 
 1843 Hebborn 
 
 
 
 1845 Burborough 
 
 BURIAL ENTRIES 
 
 OF NAMES NOT IN 
 
 1849 Long 
 
 THE LIST OF 
 
 CHRISTENINGS. 
 
 and 61 
 
 
 
 Coggins 
 
 1823 Daniel 
 
 
 1851 Hounslow 
 
 and 61 
 
 
 1853 Fawdery 
 
 1825 Pigeon 
 
 
 1854 Lacey 
 
 1826 Lamb 
 
 
 1861 Thomson 
 
 1856 Hall 
 
 
 and 64 
 
 In the Churchwarden's account book which dates only 
 from May 20, 1783, is found written on the cover, " 1824, 
 Mr. Powel's contract for new roofing the church 110 05. id., 
 sold the old lead for 91 14s." Other entries within the 
 book are Oct. 30, 1820, paid for beer for getting the Bel 
 down, 45., W. Young, Churchwarden. 
 
 Disbursements of John Reeve and Thos. West, Church- 
 wardens, 1824. New roofing the Church and expenses at- 
 tending, 115 6s. 5d. 
 
 Between the years 1811 and 1834, are entries at various 
 times of charges for the destruction of Sparrows, amounting 
 in the whole to 954 dozen, at 3d. a dozen, and also of 40 
 Hedgehogs at 4c. a piece. 
 
 The rest are of the ordinary character for the services and 
 common repairs of the church. 
 
 The Parish Books contain entries of collections in church 
 for Briefs""" bearing date from the year 1681 to 1744, of these 
 there is an entry, October 22, 1738, for a certified loss by 
 hail storm at Dunstew and Deddington, of 1,080 and 
 upwards, when there was collected in church one shilling, 
 
 * A Brief Teut : a letter. Letters patent granted by the Sovereign for col- 
 lecting of charitable benevolence to poor sufferers, by fire or other casualties. 
 Bailey's Diet. Queen's letters have been the latest form of Royal Licence 
 for collections in Churches. Both have now been suppressed for some years, 
 the first by stat. Geo. T.V., ch. 42. The latter in the reign of the present 
 Sovereign. 
 
 D
 
 32 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 and by voluntary subscriptions, fifteen shillings and tenpence' 
 During the sixty-three years which intervened between 
 1681 and 1744, there were read no less than two hundred 
 and seventy -three of these Briefs, and the collections on each 
 occasion were very small, and sometimes there was not any- 
 thing collected ; apparently the more distant the calamity 
 the less sympathy was evinced for it, fires and inundations 
 near Oxford seem to have excited the deeper, and inundations 
 more than fires. The money collected upon the Briefs in 
 the Church did not at any one time amount to five 
 shillings. It is stated in these books, that in the year " 1 722, 
 March 28th, was buried Thomas Dandridge, on which occa- 
 sion Mrs. 'Dandridge gave ten shillings for a funeral sermon,"* 
 and at this time the Mill was probably in existence, for there 
 is an entry to the effect that " John Bus well at the Mill 
 owed one year's Easter offering four pence/' 
 
 Among the Constables disbursements from 1740 to 1815, 
 the payments of Marshalsea money frequently occur ; 
 there are also these entries : 
 
 1742 Dec. 5, John Brown for New Town Gun Os. 9d. 
 1 0, Paid Thomas King for Gun Powder 1 8 
 
 1747 March, For Watch BiU 1 
 
 1749 June 7 Paid John Parsons for the use of a 
 Slead for drawing the great stones from 
 the Pound to mend Westcott Barton 
 
 Bridge 3 
 
 1760 July 7 For the use of John Parsons' Gun 2 6 
 1766 July 20 Paid John Brown for stocking the 
 
 Town Gun 2 6 
 
 1768 Nov. 1 Paid Parsons for a pair of New 
 
 Stocks 12 6 
 
 April 17 Paid John Parsons for half the 
 
 charge of a new gate at the Pound 4 
 
 Marshalsea Money. Under this title there was included 
 
 * " Funeral sermons used to be very general in England : I know no where 
 that it is retained at present, except upon Portland Island, where the minister 
 has half a guinea for every sermon he preaches." Brand's Popular Antiquities, 
 vol. ii, p. 171 ; Knight's Ed. Lond. 1841. The first edition of this work was 
 printed at Ne\vcastle-upon-Tyne in 1777. See the editor's advertisement.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 33 
 
 in the county rate, a certain charge for the relief of the 
 poor prisoners confined in the King's Bench and Marshalsea 
 prisons, agreeably with the Statutes 43 Elizabeth, c. 2, s. 14. 
 12 Geo. ii., c. 29. s. 2. 53 Geo. iii., c. 113. 
 
 The Town Gun, for which there are sundry expenses in- 
 curred besides those above given, does not refer to anything 
 more formidable than the perpetual warfare which was at 
 this time carried on by the growers of corn against the 
 Sparrow and Finch tribes in the open and uninclosed common 
 fields. 
 
 The Pound. Saxon-Pyndan. (A prison for beasts, 
 Johnson's Diet.) situated in the North Angle formed by the 
 Kiddington and Worton highway, where it crosses the 
 turnpike road from Bicester to Enstone, is in Middle Barton 
 Liberty, and it would seem by the account books of the 
 parish officers, that it had been kept in repair jointly by 
 Westcott Barton and Middle Barton, for their common use. 
 " Pounds were originally provided upon the waste lands 
 of the Manor, and were intended for cattle taken on trespass, 
 and therein to be detained till the owner redeemed them 
 persons attempting to rescue cattle lawfully impounded, or 
 damaging the Pound, are liable to a penalty not exceeding 
 five pounds or three months' imprisonment with hard 
 labour.** 
 
 The Stocks. Saxon Stocce ; a prison for legs (Johnson's 
 Diet.) stood in "Fox" lane till the spring of 18(>8, when 
 they fell down and have not yet been replaced. The history 
 of " Parish Stocks" extends back over a period exceeding 
 five hundred years. They are enjoined by statute to be set 
 up in every parish, and parishes are indictable for not having 
 their Stocks, and are liable to a penalty of five pounds ; 
 their purpose is the safe custody of disorderly persons, and 
 by way of punishment alternative, as, where a person sen- 
 tenced to a fine of five shillings for drunkenness by Stat, 
 James 1, c. 7, is unable to pay it he is to be confined in the 
 Parish Stocks for six hours, f 
 
 * See ad vocem, the Cyclopaedias and the Cabinet Lawyer, 1861, 
 t See ditto, et ad voceni Drunkenness.
 
 34 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE INCLOSURE ACT AND THE AWARD. 
 
 The Title of the Act of Parliament under which the 
 Parish was inclosed is as follows : 
 
 An Act for dividing and inclosing the open and common 
 fields, common meadows, common pastures, waste and other 
 commonable lands and grounds within the Parish and 
 Precincts of Westcott Barton, and within the Liberty and 
 Precincts of Middle Barton, in the Parish of Steeple Barton, 
 in the County of Oxford, 35 George iii, 1795. 
 The award is dated April 2, 1796. 
 
 Note. The Inclosure of the lands of Westcott Barton 
 under one and the same Act with those of Middle Barton 
 belonging to the Parish of Steeple Barton, was rendered 
 necessary by their intermixture ; a circumstance which 
 in some places is found to exist, and which is accounted for 
 by Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, 
 Vol. 1, Sect. 113. He says, "The division of the kingdom 
 into parishes happened by degrees ; it seems pretty clear 
 and certain that the boundaries of parishes were originally 
 ascertained by those of a Manor or Manors ; since it very 
 seldom happens that a manor extends itself over more 
 parishes than one, though there are often many manors in 
 one parish. The Lords as Christianity spread itself began 
 to build churches on their own demesnes, or wastes, to 
 accommodate their tenants in one or two adjoining lordships, 
 and in order to have divine service regularly performed 
 therein, obliged all their tenants to appropriate their tithes to 
 the maintenance of the one officiating minister, instead of 
 leaving them at liberty to distribute them among the clergy 
 of the diocese in general, and this tract of land the tithes 
 whereof were so appropriated, formed a distinct parish, which 
 will well enough account for the frequent intermixture of 
 parishes one with another. But if the lord had a parcel of 
 land detached from the main of his estate, but not suffered 
 to form a parish of itself, it was natural for him to endow
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 35 
 
 his newly erected church with the tithes of those disjointed 
 lands ; especially if no church was then built in any lord- 
 ship adjoining those outlying parcels.'* 
 
 The award is engrossed in two parts according to the act ; 
 one being deposited for public inspection and perusal upon 
 the payment of one shilling in the office of the clerk of the 
 peace ; the other contained in two tin cases, one holding the 
 award, the other the map or plan with reference thereto, is 
 in custody of the Eector of Westcott Barton for the inspec- 
 tion and perusal of the proprietors interested in the in- 
 closure. 
 
 It is seen by the said act that all Eents, Services, Courts, 
 Perquisites of Courts, and Profits of Courts, and all other 
 Royalties and Privileges belonging to the manors of Middle 
 Barton and Westcott Barton, other than such commonable 
 Rights as are compensated for under the award by allot- 
 ments of land are preserved as whole and intact to the lords 
 of the respective manors as if the act had not passed. 
 
 Certain specialities of the award are, that the feed and 
 pasture of the public roads are allotted to the proprietors 
 whose allotments adjoin the roads respectively to the centre 
 thereof, as far as the allotments extend along the said roads, 
 and that for the common repairs of the roads in the inter- 
 mixed parishes, a line is drawn from North to South, and all 
 the roads lying to the West of this recited line or boundary 
 are to be kept in repair by the owners and occupiers of the 
 parish of Westcott Barton, and all on the east by those of 
 Middle Barton. 
 
 It is also seen that the rector of Westcott Barton in right 
 of his rectory is allotted as a full satisfaction for tithes, certain 
 shares of land as equal in value to one fifth part of the 
 arable, and^one ninth part of the pasture land (the ground set 
 out for roads and quarries having been first deducted) and 
 that the remainder of the parish is thus for ever exonerated 
 from the payment of tithe (Mortuaries Easter offerings and 
 Surplice Fees due to the Rector being excepted.) 
 
 After reciting that " the poor residing within the parish 
 and precincts of Westcott Barton and the liberty and pre- 
 cincts of Middle Barton had from time immemorial used
 
 36 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 and exercised the liberty of cutting furze and other fuel 
 growing within and upon certain parts of the said common- 
 able lands by the said Act intended to be divided and 
 inclosed to be spent and consumed by them in their 
 dwelling-houses in Westcott Barton and Middle Barton 
 aforesaid, and not elsewhere, and that the said proprietors, 
 being desirous that some provision might be made for the 
 said poor people as a satisfaction for the privilege so 
 enjoyed by them as aforesaid, it is in and by the said Act 
 enacted that the Commissioners should, and they are hereby 
 required to set out and allot unto and for the Duke of 
 Marlborough, Francis Page, Edward Taylor, William Taylor, 
 Samuel Churchill, William Weston, Thomas Brangwin, the 
 Rector of Westcott Barton, and the Vicar of Steeple Barton, 
 for the time being, such plot or plots of land, parcel of the 
 lands and grounds by the said Act intended to be inclosed 
 as should, in the judgment of the said Commissioners, be 
 thought a proper satisfaction for such liberty so exercised 
 by the said poor as aforesaid, and that from and after such 
 allotment or allotments should be made in satisfaction as 
 aforesaid, all liberty and right of cutting furze and other 
 fuel as aforesaid -should cease, and that the said Trustees, 
 their heirs, and successors, should stand and be seized of 
 such land so to be allotted in satisfaction as aforesaid upon 
 trust from time to time to let the same for any term or term 
 of years not exceeding twenty-one years for the best and 
 most improved rent that could be gotten for the same, and 
 lay out the clear rents, issues, and profits thereof, after the 
 costs and charges attending the execution of the powers by 
 the said Act reposed in them should be satisfied, in the 
 purchase of coals and other fuel for the use of the poor of 
 Westcott Barton and Middle Barton aforesaid, and should 
 ca,use the same to be distributed amongst the poor on the 
 twenty-fourth day of December yearly for ever in such pro- 
 portions as the said Trustees or any person or persons to be 
 deputed for that purpose by them should think fit and 
 reasonable." 
 
 The Commissioners, in pursuance of the said Act, did 
 therefore set out two pieces of land, the one as recited in
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 37 
 
 the schedule, p. 40, the other a piece adjoining in the liberty 
 of Middle Barton, consisting of A. 15, R. 1, P. 22. 
 
 By reference to the first schedule of the award specifying 
 the several sums of money to be annually paid by the pro- 
 prietors of messuages, tenements, gardens, orchards, and 
 ancient inclosures, who were not entitled to lands or com- 
 mon rights in the lands and grounds by the said Act directed 
 to be divided and inclosed sufficient to make compensation 
 for the tithes thereof, eight tenements are seen, to be sub- 
 jected to two half-yearly payments to the Rev. Edward 
 Seagrave, Rector of Westcott Barton, amounting in the 
 whole to five shillings and eightpence a year. By refer- 
 ence to the second schedule, it appears that the total ex- 
 penses of the inclosure of Westcott Barton and Middle 
 Barton amounted to 3,261 4s. 3d., which gives an average 
 of rather less than 1 5s. per acre, the joint acrerage being 
 2,236 acres 2 roods and 23 perches, including 5 acres 2 roods 
 and 11 perches allotted for stone pits and 51 acres and 11 
 perches for roads, as is stated upon the map or plan made by 
 the surveyer of the inclosure, and accompanying the copy of 
 the award deposited in the parish of "Westcott Barton. 
 
 The Allotments with reference to the Map : 
 
 No. SAMUEL CHURCHILL, ESQ. A. R. P. A. B. P. 
 
 One moiety of the manor farm in fee. 
 
 1 One moiety of the manor allotment 4 36 
 
 2 First allotment . . . . 66 18 
 
 171 Second ditto . . . . . 8 3 35 
 
 172 Third ditto, taken in exchange for balance of 
 
 homestead . . . . . 6 1 17 
 
 173 Allotment for calves' close . . . 2 1 39 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 
 3 Homestead and meadow . . ' . 3 2 38 
 
 4 Malt-house and close . . . 1 25 
 
 193 Northward twenty acres . . . 18 1 37 
 
 194 Southward twenty acres . . . 16 1 19 
 
 127 3 24 
 
 One moiety of the manor for livet. 
 
 7 One moiety of the manor farm 3 16 
 9 First allotment . .... . 40 3 1 
 
 8 Second ditto . . . . . 6 3 24
 
 38 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 No. Old Inclosures. A. B. p. A. B. p. 
 
 5 House and garden .... 1 26 
 
 6 Meadow and cottages . . . . 1 2 10 
 
 53 1 37 
 
 WILLIAM TATLOB, ESQ. 
 
 176 First allotment . . . . 134 1 11 
 12 Second ditto . .- . . . 13 3 39 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 159 Homestead, meadow, and close . . 9 2 38 
 
 158 8 
 
 MB. W. WESTON. 
 
 177 First allotment .... 109 1 14 
 30 Second ditto . . . . . 63 3 24 
 
 Old Inclosures, 
 
 144 Homestead and close .... 
 
 155 House, malthouse, and close 
 
 157 Pittice meadow 
 
 161 House and Grafton's close 
 
 DUKE OP MABLBOBOUGH. 
 
 186 First Allotment . . . . 34 3 6 
 
 192 Parsonage close, taken in exchange of Mr. 
 
 Seagrave ..... 3 36 
 
 38 2 
 
 JOHN WALKEB, ESQ. 
 37 Allotment . . . . . 22 1 34 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 145 Homestead and close .... 1 34 
 
 23 2 28 
 
 MB. F. BBANGWIN. 
 61 Allotment . . " . . . 20 2 1 
 
 20 2 1 
 
 THOMAS EICK.ETTS. 
 174 Allotment . . . . . 3 2 22 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 
 156 House and close .... 1 35 
 
 163 Cottage and garden . . . . 1 14 
 
 . 5 31 
 
 JOHN HOLLIS. 
 59 Allotment . . . . . 2 3 29 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 148 Cottage and garden ' . . . . 22 
 
 3 11
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 39* 
 
 No. JOHN PATRICK. A. B. p. A. R. P. 
 
 68 First allotment . . . 35 1 20 
 
 65 Second ditto ..... 36 
 
 41 71 1 20 
 
 THOMAS BODDINGTON. 
 43 Allotment . . . ... 1 11 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 
 120 Shop, Barn, Close, taken in Exchange of S. 
 
 Churchill ..... 3 16 
 
 121 Mill Pike, taken in Exchange of the Duke of 
 
 Marlborough . . . , 16 
 
 1 1 33 
 
 TRUSTEES OP SANDFORD POOR. 
 
 167 Allotment. . . . . 2 3 21 
 
 2 3 21 
 
 EDWARD MOBBS. 
 
 70 Allotment. . . . '.'.32 15 
 
 3 2 15 
 
 JAMES PARSONS. 
 151 Allotment ..... 1 33 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 153 House and Yard . . . 30 
 
 2 23 
 
 EICHARD HUGHES. 
 20 Allotment , 2 10 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 147 House and Garden . . . . 38 
 
 3 8 
 
 WILLIAM Lunsro. 
 
 22 Allotment ... . . 1 30 
 
 1 30 
 
 REV. EDWARD SEAGRAVE. 
 
 16 Allotment for Glebe Land . . . 32 1 29 
 
 14 First Allotment for Tithes . . = . 44 3 17 
 34 Second, ditto . . . . 126 3 4 
 
 15 Duke of Marlborough, second allotment taken 
 
 in Exchange . . . . .- 2 3 26 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 158 Homestead 2 3 26 
 
 209 3 2
 
 40 
 
 No. 
 32 Allotment 
 
 MEMORIALS OF 
 POOR. 
 
 Old Inclosures. 
 JOHN PARSONS. 
 
 149 Cottage 
 149*Cottage and Garden 
 
 PARISH OFFICERS. 
 
 150 Cottage . 
 160 Cottage . 
 
 ANN SIMONS. 
 6 Cottage and Garden 
 
 T. CHILTON, 
 146 Cottage and Garden 
 
 JONATHAN JARVIS. 
 1 54 Cottage, Garden, and Orchard 
 
 ANN LANGFORD. 
 162 Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 ROADS. 
 In Westcott Barton and Middle Barton 
 
 A. R. p. A. R. p. 
 
 13 3 6 
 13 3 6 
 
 3 
 1 5 
 
 1 8 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 21 
 
 3 30 
 
 16 
 
 
 920 
 
 16 
 
 STONE PITS IN WESTCOTT BARTON. 
 
 
 
 A ... 1 
 
 37 
 
 
 c ... 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 37 
 
 
 G ... 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 21 
 
 
 J 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 34 
 
 3 
 
 I n 
 
 51 11 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE MANOR AND ESTATES. 
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON is not particularised by name in Domes- 
 day Book. It would seem that, in the survey of the 21st
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 41 
 
 Will. Conq., 1086-7, there was but one and the same return 
 by the Commissioners for all the Bartons of this district, 
 and they are accounted for as Land of the Bishop of Baieux ; 
 Land of Roger d'lvri ; and Land of the Bishop of Lisieux.* 
 
 In c. 1154, 1 Hen. II., Humphrey, son of Odo de Barton, 
 had possession of one knight's fee of the estate of Manasser 
 Arsic.t 
 
 In 1216, 1 Hen. III., Hugo Peynel held one knight's fee 
 of William de Kaynes in Westcote Barton.! 
 
 In 1273, 2 Ed. I., Edmund Earl of Cornwall was seized 
 of a holding in West Barton. 
 
 In 1278, 7 Ed. L, Peter de Barton was found possessed 
 of one knight's fee in Little Barton, which he held of Robert 
 de Bennes, and there were in the ville 9 villanes, 10 free 
 tenants, and 2 cottmen.|| 
 
 In 1316,ffl Ed.H., in a transcript of the record entitled 
 Nomina Villarum, preserved among the Harleian MSS., 
 No. 6,281, in the British Museum, and which are the 
 returns made to writs issued to all the sheriffs to certify 
 what townships there were in each hundred, and who were 
 the lords thereof, with a view of raising certain military 
 levies, Hugh de Barton is named as Lord of the Manor IT of 
 Little Barton. 
 
 * Appendix No. 3. t Appendix No. 4. J Appendix No. 5. 
 
 Appendix No. 6. || Appendix No. 7. 
 
 IF The name of Manor is either from the French, " Manoir," or from the 
 Latin, " Manendo," as the usual residence of the owner on his land. Aula, 
 Halla, Haula, the Hall, was the chief mansion house, and was the usual appen- 
 dage of a manor. In one instance in Domesday, Halla is used for a manor, 
 fol. 29, B. 
 
 " Manors continued to be erected till the Statute ' Quia Emptores,' which 
 passed 18 Ed. L, and numerous parcels of land which now form manors of 
 themselves, at the time of the Domesday survey must have heen parcels of 
 other manors still in existence." Extracted from Ellis's Introduction to Domes- 
 day Book, vol. i. 
 
 " A manor was formerly such a compass of ground which was granted by 
 the king to some baron or great person for him and his family to dwell on, 
 and to exercise some jurisdiction within that place, and perform such services 
 and pay such rent as the king required. Afterwards this grantee parcelled out 
 his land to others, requiring from them similar services, &c., and these gran- 
 tees became lords of manors. The beginning of these grants was some time 
 after the Conquest, for we read of no manors before that time." From Lex 
 Maneriorum, by W. Nelson, Esq., fol., Savoy, 1746, p. 118.
 
 42 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 Names of ratepayers in the year 1327-8, 2 Ed. III., are 
 given in the Appendix.* 
 
 The Lordship of Barton, including portions of it which 
 have acquired distinctive titles, is found after this date in 
 the possession of members of the family of John de St. John 
 de Lageham,f till it passed into that of the Loveyns in 1351 ; 
 from the Loveyns it went to the St. Clere's in 1407 ; and 
 about the middle of the 15th century the manor of Barton 
 St. John, or Great Barton, was in the hands of William 
 Chamberlayne,| son and heir of Richard Chamberlayne, who 
 was son and heir of Margaret, wife of Philip Saint Clare. 
 It seems to have remained in this family for about one 
 hundred years, when a licence, dated 5th of May, 35th year 
 of Hen. VIII., 1543, was granted to Sir Edward Chamber- 
 layne, Leonard Chamberlayne, and Dorothy, his wife, for 
 the alienation of the manor to John Nudygate, father to 
 the said Dorothy, and Richard Cripps. It may be assumed 
 that this was procured only for the purpose of effecting some 
 settlement or family arrangement. 
 
 21st Oct., 38 Hen. VIIL, 1546, Leonard Chamberlayne 
 and John Blundell obtained, with other parcels of the 
 revenues belonging to the late cathedral church of Christ 
 and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Oxford ; Abbey of Oseney, 
 lately dissolved ; the advowson of the Church of Great 
 Barton ; as also all rents, services of customary tenants, and 
 customary lands in Barton Odo, Great Barton, Middle 
 Barton, and Westcote, to hold the same of the king and his 
 successors in chief by the service of a 40th part of a knight's 
 fee, amounting to 56s. 8d. by the year.|| 
 
 * Appendix No. 8. 
 
 t See also " Account of Sandford," by Rev. Ed. Marshall, Parker and Co., 
 Oxford, Lond., 1866, where are drawn out the particulars of the descent at pp. 
 14, 15, with reference to the pedigrees in Manning and Bray's Survey, vol. ii., 
 p. 3225. 
 
 $ Judgment given in an Exchequer suit, 34 Hen. VI., 1455. 
 
 The Church of Great Barton was given to the Canons of Oseney, c. 1209, 
 10 and 11 K. John ; and in 1228 Roger de St. John confirmed the gift of it, 
 which his father had made. See the Account of Sandford, p. 11. 
 
 || Taken from Particulars of Grants in the Augmentation Office.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 43 
 
 By letters patent, bearing date September 27, 1532, 24 
 Hen. VIIL, the King had granted to the Bight Reverend 
 Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Lincoln, and others 
 (int. als.), all his manor, &c., with their appurtenances, in 
 Steeple Barton, Co. Oxon, which were forfeited to the Crown 
 by the attainder of Thomas Lord Cardinal Wolsey, to hold 
 to them and their heirs, to the use of the Dean and Canons 
 of King Henry the Eighth's College in Oxford. 
 
 On the erection of Bishoprics, after the suppression of the 
 Abbeys, Oseney was made, in 1542, the Cathedral Church 
 of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. It only continued 
 so, however, for a short time, for in 1546 the King's College 
 in Oxford, which had been founded by Wolsey in 1525, and 
 called Cardinal College, and was refounded by Henry VIIL 
 in 1532, under the name of King's College, was turned into 
 the Cathedral Church and the Episcopal See, translated from 
 Oseney, with the possessions of that Abbey. 
 
 During this period, embracing parts of the 14th and 15th 
 centuries, the names of some other landowners and persons 
 who had from time to time become seized with an interest 
 in the manors were 
 
 In 1322 Nicolas at Putte* 
 
 1324 Johannes Bussebye de Welcombegrene.* 
 
 1356 aWillus de SharshulLf 
 
 1375 Rich. Page de Nether Worton.f 
 
 143 6 Johannes Aston, f 
 
 1438 Henricus Wilforde et Johannes Francke Cleri- 
 
 cus.f 
 
 1451 Johanna Legh.-f- 
 
 1457 6Sir John Dynham, Knight,-f- who held the 
 manors of Barton (Ede, otherwise Sharshill 
 Barton, Rowlesham, and Dernford, and also 
 
 * Calend. Inquis. P.M., vol. i., pp. 269, 281. 
 
 t Ditto, vol. ii., pp. 204, 355 ; vol. iv., pp. 173, 186, 250, 279. 
 
 a William de Shareshull, Co. Stafford, King's Serjeant, 1330 ; Just. K. B. 
 1333 ; Ch. K. B. 1350. Foss' Judges of England, vol. iii., p. 504. 
 
 " 24 Ed. III. William de Shareshull had licence from the King to exchange 
 with the Canons of Oseney certain lands in Tewe Parva, Sandford, and Oxford, 
 for others at Barton, Endon, and Rowlesham." Dugd. Monast., vol. vi., p. 249. 
 
 b Sir John Dynham, Knight, assisted at the siege of Calais in 1436. He died 
 in 1457, 36 Hen. VI., leaving Joanna his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Richard
 
 41 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 sundry messuages, lands, and woods within 
 those manors, and Stepull Aston Manor ut 
 de Honore de Wodestoke. 
 
 By an Inquis. post mortem, 6th Nov., 1 Eliz., 1558, John 
 Blundell is found to be seized (int. als.) of the manor of 
 Great Barton, with lands in Middle Barton, also the Rectory 
 and Advowson of Great Barton. 
 
 By his will, dated 1st April, 1557, he left the same to his 
 wife for her life, and after her death to his five daughters 
 and their heirs, the said manor and rectory being worth 
 79 12s. Id. of money and lib. of pepper per annum. The 
 estate was held of the Queen of the Manor of Woodstock, 
 by the suit and view of Frankpledge, twice a year, and the 
 rent of 13s. 4d., called head silver, at Michaelmas yearly. 
 The daughters and heirs of the said John Blundell were 
 Elizabeth, wife of Edward Hogan ; Mary, wife of Gerard 
 Croker ; Theodora, Ann, and Susanna. Justinian Champneys 
 afterwards married Theodora ; Thomas Cordell married Ann, 
 who died without issue ; Richard Freston married Susanna, 
 who died without issue living, but having had issue. Richard 
 was tenant pour le courtesie d'Angleterre. 
 
 Upon a suit of partition"" 21 Eliz. 1578-9 ; promoted by 
 Richard Freston, the rectory and vicarage of Steeple Bar- 
 ton was divided in fifths ; and Ann's fifth part in thirds, 
 viz., to Edward and Elizabeth Hogan, Mary Croker, Jus- 
 tinian and Theodora Champneys ; and the said Justinian and 
 Theodora had for their part, the site of the Manor of Great 
 Barton with other parcels of land. This portion was conveyed 
 
 deArcub us, surviving him,and John Dynham, his son and heir, who also became 
 a Knight, and distinguished himself at Calais in 1455. Elizabeth Fitzwalter was 
 his wife, but dying without male heirs 17 Hen. VII., 1501, his sisters and their 
 representatives inherited his estates, one of these being Sir John Arundell, 
 Knight, son of Sir Thomas Arundell, Knight, by Katherine, his third sister. 
 
 Dugdale's Baronetage, vol. i., p. 515. 
 
 Lipscomb's Hist, of Bucks, vol. i., pp. 475-6. 
 
 Collinson's Somersetshire, vol. ii., p. 362. 
 
 Baker's Chronicle, fol., 1660, p. 209. 
 
 * " It is agreed for law, in 26 Hen. VIII., fol. 4, that if a manor descend to 
 three coparceners, and they make partition so that each of them have part of 
 the demesne and part of the services, that every one of them hath a manor, 
 and that each one of them shall have a Court Baron:." See Burton's Leicester- 
 shire, fol., Lond., 1622, p. 91.
 
 WESTCOTT BAETON. . 45 
 
 in 1714, by the representatives of Kichard Hawkins, Citizen 
 and Grocer of London, (having in the mean time passed 
 through other] hands) to Francis* Page, of the Inner 
 Temple, Esq., who in the year following, obtained by 
 purchase certain of the lands and tithesf which had been 
 assigned to Edward Hogan and Elizabeth his wife. 
 
 In 1721, the estate of Gerard Croker was in the possession 
 of Miles Parker, and in the same year the tithes of Middle 
 Barton were sold to the Duke of Marlborough, who thus 
 became joint-patron of the vicarage of Steeple Barton with 
 Sir Francis Page and Joseph Taylor, Esq., owner of another 
 of the shares of the manor and tithes of Great Barton. 
 
 The Duke of Marlborough's interest in Great Barton 
 (albeit the appurtenant share of the advowson has not passed 
 W. W. p. 54) was transferred to Henry Welbore, Viscount 
 Clifden, who on the 10th of March, 1792, married Lady 
 Caroline Spencer, eldest daughter of George, fourth Duke of 
 Marlborough. The Duke's estate at Westcott Barton and 
 Middle Barton, purchased of Mr. Loggin, c. 1777, was sold 
 to the said Viscount Clifden in 1811. 
 
 1st and 2nd August, 1740, the estate at Barton of the 
 Hon. Sir Francis Page, Knight, was conveyed in trust for 
 Francis Bourne, Esq., son of his niece Isabella, Mr. Bourne 
 eventually took the name of Page, and died in 1803 ; the 
 property then passed to Kichard Bourne, of Elmsley Castle, 
 Worcestershire, brother of the aforesaid Francis. Richard 
 did not take the name of Page, having previously assumed 
 that of Charlett. 
 
 * Francis Page, second son of the Reverend Nicholas Page, Vicar of Blox- 
 ham, was knighted and made King's Serjeant, 1715 Baron of the Exchequer, 
 1718 Justice of the King's Bench, 1727. He lies buried in a chapel on the 
 north side of Steeple Aston Church. Ancient monuments of this chapel which 
 no longer exist, were according to the MSS. of Anthony a Wood, recumbent 
 effigies representing some of the Dinham family, who were formerly Lords of 
 one of the Manors. 
 
 Foss' Judges of England, vol. iii, p. 143 ; Wing's Antiq. and Hist, of Steeple 
 Aston, 1845. 
 
 f In 1847, the tithes not dealt with by the inclosure of 1796-7, were com- 
 muted and apportioned upon the estates of Henry Hall ; Viscount Clifden ; 
 John Painter ; and William Wing. (W. W., p. 57.) This latter being known as 
 Whistlow Farm, once the property of the Brangwins and formerly in the 
 possession or occupation of Robert Dormer.
 
 46 . MEMORIALS OF 
 
 In 1804, this Estate was sold to William Sturgess Bourne, 
 Esq., (from whom in 1846, w. w.) it was purchased by the 
 late Henry Hall, Esq., of Barton Abbey. 
 
 Mr. Taylor, who died in 1732, left his estate in Steeple 
 Barton, Middle Barton, and Westcott, to John, the son of 
 his brother Edward and from John it passed to his only son 
 Edward Taylor, of Steeple Aston, who at his death in 1797, 
 left his Barton as well as his Steeple Aston property to 
 Mary, daughter of John Lock, Esq., of Chipping Norton, 
 she married William Mister, Esq., of Shipston-on-Stour, and 
 this property then came to be sold ; the latter has thus passed 
 into the possession of the Lechmere family, and the Barton 
 into the family of Painter, of Mixbury ; this is now held in 
 two moieties, Mr. Joseph Painter having the House and 
 Manor allotment with other lands, and Mr. Thomas Painter 
 the remainder. The Painters who succeeded to Mr. Taylor's 
 manorial rights in Middle Barton, succeeded' also to his share 
 of the advowson of the Parsonage, which has lately been pur- 
 chased of them by the Duke of Marlborough. 
 
 The Manor House and Estate at Barton GEde, otherwise 
 SesswelTs Barton, probably came into the Dormer family 
 through the marriage of Geoffrey Dormer, Esq., of Chearsley 
 with Ursula, daughter of Bartholomew Collingridge, Esq., 
 of Towersey, who had married an Arundell. Ursula was heir 
 general of Arundell (Sir Thomas) who married Katharine, 
 one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Sir John Dynham. 
 See Lipscomb's Bucks, Vol. 1, p. 477. 
 
 This house, now styled Barton Abbey, was built by 
 John Dormer, c. 1524. But before many years elapsed it 
 passed by sale into the family of Sheldon, of Worcestershire, 
 " Mr. Ralph Sheldon made great alterations within the house 
 in 1678-79." (Wood, MS. 8455. Bodl. Lib.) At the com- 
 mencement of the present century, it was in the possession 
 of William Willan, Esq. (W. W.) who about the year 
 1822, sold his property at Barton to William Hall, Esq., of 
 Oxford, Grandfather of the present A. W. Hall, Esq. 
 
 C. Cott^ell Dormer, Esq., of Rousham, holds occasional 
 courts for the manor of Steeple Barton, with its appurte- 
 nances.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 47 
 
 Previous to the death of John Blundell in 1558, who, as has 
 been stated, had acquired the Manor of Great Barton, that 
 known as Little or Westcott Barton, had passed on as a 
 distinct Lordship or Manor. It is seen by a deed dated 34 
 Henry VIII, 1542, that Robert Beckingharn, of Stonesfield, 
 Gent., son and heir of Richard Beckingharn of Pudlicot, 
 Esq., and Eleanor his wife, did demise the Manor qr Hall 
 of Westcott Barton, with its lands, tenements, and ap- 
 purtenances to John Cupper, Gent, for a term of twenty- 
 one years. It is probable that this Manor came into the 
 family of Beckingham through the marriage of the above 
 named Richard, with Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Sir 
 Robert Harcourt, Knight of the body to King Henry VII, 
 whose only son John died unmarried ; Sir Robert was 
 standard bearer at the battle of Bos worth field ; his tomb is 
 to be seen in the Church of Stanton Harcourt. The Har- 
 courts with much probability became originally possessed of 
 the estate by the marriage of Sir Richard H arcourt, of Wi- 
 tham, Berks, (whose will was proved October 25, 1486) with 
 Edith, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Thomas 
 St. Clere.* It appears from the pedigree drawn up by Lips- 
 comb in his history of Buckinghamshire, that this family had 
 an early connexion with the Sharshulls, who were interested 
 in Barton ; Sir Richard Harcourt who died without male 
 issue previous to the year 1351, and whose brother Thomas 
 was a direct ancestor of the great Sir Robert, having married 
 Katherine daughter of Sir William Sharshull, Knight, one of 
 the justices of the King's Bench in the time of Edward III. 
 
 In 1549, 4 Ed. VI., Simon Parret conveyed to the Presi- 
 dent (Owen Oglethorpe) and Fellows of Magdalen College, 
 Oxford, three acres of arable land in Westcott Barton.f 
 
 In 1557, John Coper (sic in the Record) purchased the 
 advowson of the parsonage of Westcott Barton from the 
 Crown, the same, it would seem, having been granted with 
 other the possessions of the Abbots and Monks of Ensham 
 and Oseney to Wolsey by Hen. VIII. for the endowment 
 of his College at Oxford, which subsequently formed parcel 
 
 * See Nicholls' Leicestershire, Vol. iv. Part i. p. 17. 
 t See Appendix, No. ix. 
 
 E
 
 48 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 of the King's foundation of the Cathedral Church of Christ 
 and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and after the resignation of 
 the Dean and Canons thereof in 1545, being surrendered, 
 again became the property of the Crown.* 
 
 By a deed of relief dated 1625, 1 Charles I, it appears 
 that upon an inquisition after the death of Kichard Cupper, 
 it was found that John Cupper, on the llth of June, 1580, 
 23rd of Elizabeth, had conveyed to the use of Richard Cup- 
 per and his heirs for ever the Manor, &c., and the advowson 
 of the Church of Westcott Barton ; that Richard Cupper 
 died in the 25th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1582, 
 leaving a daughter and sole heiress of the age of eight months 
 and sixteen days ; that the manor, &c., &c., were held of the 
 late Queen in her right of the Duchy of Lancaster by military 
 service, but by what part of a knight's fee it did not appear. 
 
 By another inquisition it had been seen that John Hayes, 
 Gentleman, of Maiden Newton, Dorset, had married Eliza- 
 beth in her minority, and that through her he had become 
 possessed of the Manor, etc., of Westcott Barton, with the 
 advowson of the Church. 
 
 In 1612, 9th of James 1st, John Hayes conveyed the 
 manor, etc., to John Martin of Wilcot ; the advowson and 
 right of presentation to the church had at this period been 
 alienated from the manor. 
 
 In 1624, 22nd James L, the manor, with its lands, tene- 
 ments, and appurtenances, was assigned by John Martin to 
 Richard Eford, who seems to have disposed of it during his 
 lifetime, he died 1638, 14 Charles I. About this time 
 the Buswell family came to reside in Westcott Barton, being 
 possessed of almost the entire parish besides the manor. 
 
 At the commencement of the eighteenth century, Thomas 
 Dandridge, of Tackley, Gentleman, is found to have acquired 
 the farm, now known as Park Place, formerly in the occupa- 
 pation of Richard Fford. 
 
 Between 1772 and 1795, part of the estate of the Bus- 
 wells was sold to Mr. Weston ; this is now the interest in 
 Westcott Barton of A. W. Hall, Esq., and another part, 
 Horsehay Farm came into the possession of Mr. John Patrick. 
 
 * See Appendix, No. x.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 49 
 
 The manor with other parcels of lands was purchased by 
 Samuel Churchill, Esq., of Deddington. In 1821, one moiety 
 of the manor with certain lands was conveyed to the Rev 
 William Wilson, D.D., of Worton ; the other passed by sale 
 in 1847, to Mr. Isaac Berridge, of Somerton. 
 
 In 1857, the Rev. Jenner Marshall, bought the two moie- 
 ties of the manor""" with the other lands, tenements, and 
 appurtenances belonging to Dr. Wilson and Mr. Berridge. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 BRIEF NOTICES OF THE CHIEF PROPRIETORS OF 1867-8. 
 NAMES OF THE OTHERS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE PRO- 
 PERTIES. 
 
 Reverend Jenner Marshall, M.A., of Worcester College. 
 Oxford, became a freeholder in Westcott Barton, by the pur- 
 chase of a small estate in 1846 of the Trustees of Mrs. 
 Martha Rand, and has subsequently made additions to his 
 property, embracing various allotments and old inclosures 
 referred to under the award in the several names of S. 
 Churchill, Esq., William Taylor, Esq., Mr. William Weston, 
 Thomas Ricketts, Ann Simons, Ann Langford, and the 
 Parish Officers. He is proprietor of - - 300 acres. 
 
 Reverend Edmund L. Lockyer, M.A., of Emmanuel Col- 
 lege, Cambridge, holds with the rectorial estate, the Lot in 
 the award map No. 20, which at the inclosure belonged to 
 Richard Haynes ; Mr. Lockyer became the purchaser of 
 Pittice Meadow, at the public sale of the Reverend W. 
 Harding's estates allotted in 1796 to Mr. W. Weston. He 
 is proprietor of 212 acres. 
 
 Alexander W. Hall, Esq., of Exeter College, Oxford, suc- 
 ceeded to his estate in 1862 upon the death of his father, the 
 
 * The Dovecote of the Manor stood on the west of the old Manor or Hall, 
 and was demolished when the alterations took place while Mr. Berridge was 
 owner of the Manor. 
 
 The last Court Baron of the Manor was held in 1823. 
 
 Deputations to game keepers enrolled with the clerk of the peace, date from 
 the year 1788 to 1827. 
 
 E 2
 
 50 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 late Henry Hall, Esq., of Barton Abbey, who at a sale by 
 public auction in 1855, purchased the same belonging to the 
 .Reverend William Harding, Vicar of Sulgrave, Northamp- 
 tonshire. This estate at the time of the inclosure, formed 
 the chief allotment and old inclosure of Mr. W. Weston. 
 He is proprietor of 178 acres. 
 
 Henry George, Agar Ellis, Viscount and Baron Clifden, 
 of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, in the Peerage of Ireland ; born 
 2nd August 1863, succeeded 20th February, 1866. He is 
 proprietor of 72 acres. 
 
 Thomas Greenaway, Yeoman of Cutslow, in'the parish of 
 Wolvercot, purchased Horsehay farm of J. Patrick, a miller 
 of Cassingtou, about the year 1840. The possessor of this 
 farm at the time of the inclosure was John Patrick. He is 
 proprietor of - 71 acres. The other proprietors are 
 
 A. E. P. 
 
 John Walker 23 2 24 Robert Ryman House 
 
 Thomas Painter 20 2 1 Henry Cole House and Bake House 
 
 James Hore 3 2 15 Hall & Co. "Fox" Public House 
 
 Samuel Simson 2 3 29 Mary Haynes Malt House, &c. 
 
 Mary Haynes 1 22 Solomon Jarvis Cottages 
 
 Mary Ann Luing 3 14 John Savery Ditto 
 
 James Parsons 1 35 George Baker Ditto 
 
 Westcott Barton PoorHS 3 6 Mary Fowler Ditto 
 
 Trustees of j James Parsons Ditto 
 
 Sandford Poor j*2 3 21 Thomas Brain Ditto 
 
 Trustees of / Elizabeth Reeve Ditto 
 
 Reps: of W. Taylor Ditto 
 
 * These at the inclosure in 1796, were allotted to them in lieu of four acres of 
 land, dispersed in the open fields of Westcott Barton, which were bought in 
 the year 1756, of William Meads and Ann Roberts for the sum of twenty 
 pounds, which is stated to be the remainder of the money bequeathed by 
 Thomas Giles for the use of the poor of Sandford. See Charity Commissioners' 
 Report, 1824, p. 342. 
 
 The bailiff of the Hundred Court, formerly collected for 
 the Duke of Marlborough, as Lord Paramount, four shillings 
 per annum, silver money, which was charged upon certain 
 lands in Westcott Barton, and essoign money at the rate of 
 two pence a head for suit and service in lieu of attendance 
 at Courts, has occasionally been demanded of tlie inhabi- 
 tants.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 51 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 ROADS AND HIGHWAYS. 
 
 YOCTNG, in his General Survey of the Agriculture of Oxford- 
 shire, published for the consideration of the Board of Agri- 
 culture in the year 1813, writes at page 324 ; " I remember 
 the roads of Oxfordshire forty years ago, when they were in 
 a condition formidable to the bones of all who travelled on 
 wheels. At that period the cross-roads were impassable but 
 with real danger. A noble change has taken place, but 
 generally by turnpikes, which cross the country in every 
 direction. The parish roads are greatly improved, but are 
 still capable of much more. The turnpikes are very good." 
 The Act of Parliament was obtained in 1793-4 for making 
 the road which passes from Enstone through Westcott 
 Barton to Bicester. Previous to its formation, the way 
 seems to have been little, if at all, better than a field-road. 
 The river Dome was crossed by means of a ford at the 
 south of Westcott Green. I have been told by an old in- 
 habitant (W. Bolton), who died in 1866, at the advanced 
 age of 86, and who was a carter in his youth, and had often 
 gone to market with corn, that none but those who had seen 
 them could have any notion of the deep and dangerous 
 condition of these ways. Here in Barton, such was the 
 state of the road through the village, that the farmers did 
 not attempt to convey their corn to Oxford Market by the 
 direct way of Hopcroft's Holt Inn, nor to Chipping Norton 
 by that through Gagingwell and Church Enstone, but in 
 the first case preferred taking a more easy and firmer course 
 across the open fields by the now Barton Leys Farm, and 
 in the direction called the " Beeches," to the tenth mile-stone 
 on the Oxford, Deddington, and Adderbury turnpike-road; 
 here they left for the night the waggon with its load, the 
 horses being taken off and brought home ; they then, early
 
 52 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 the next morning, started again to draw the corn the rest of 
 the journey to the market, whence they returned on the 
 third day. In the latter case, they went by the way of 
 Norton Gap, leaving Radford on the left, to the twelfth 
 milestone on the Woodstock and Chipping Norton turnpike- 
 road ; and " none but those who had been with a team 
 would believe " (the same person thus expressed himself to 
 me) the difficulties of the journeys. The wheels, he said, 
 were frequently in ruts to the very nave, and dragged 
 without revolving. The punishment to the horses by falling 
 and floundering, the carter with whip and voice urging 
 them on ; the breaking of the harness by constant straining 
 and irregular jerking, and the injury to the waggon by wear 
 and tear, added considerably to the annual expense of farm- 
 ing. As a contrast to this now, about one hundred years 
 later, the order is quite reversed. The parish roads are 
 good, the turnpikes a source of complaint. This difference 
 must chiefly be attributed to the introduction of railroads, 
 which connect the market and commercial towns throughout 
 the country, and have withdrawn to themselves the passenger 
 and goods traffic, rendered the old roads less necessary for 
 general purposes, and limited their use very much to merely 
 local. The highways have, from an early date, been made 
 and maintained by a charge on the parochial rates, which 
 have varied according to the circumstances of the neighbour- 
 hood through which they were constructed, and their im- 
 provement has been of late greatly stimulated by the 
 Highway Act, 25 and 26 Viet. ch. 61. The turnpikes, on 
 the other hand, have been made and maintained by the 
 trustees or commissioners, who have, from time to time, 
 obtained powers under Acts of Parliament to borrow money 
 for the purpose of putting certain highways into a more useful 
 state, and to levy tolls on horses, cattle, and carriages passing 
 along them to keep them efficient, to pay the interest of the 
 debt and the salaries and expenses of the officers of manage- 
 ment. From the above-mentioned causes, the tolls on many 
 roads have greatly diminished, and the surveyors can, with 
 difficulty, only provide for the commonest repairs upon them, 
 and for rendering them passable for the lighter vehicles
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 53 
 
 even which the modern wants of society have made requi- 
 site. A state of things has thus come about which is leading 
 to further legislation, and which may, ere long, result in the 
 total abolition of turnpike-gates and the burden of the roads' 
 maintenance being thrown again in part, if not entirely, upon 
 the common liability of the rate-paying, and not the travel- 
 ling public. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 THE NEW BRIDGES. 
 
 IN the spring of 1867 a subscription was raised in the 
 neighbourhood for the purpose of building a bridge of 
 sufficient width for carriages to pass to and fro over the 
 Dome at the bottom of Pound Lane, the ford being very 
 inconvenient for the increased public traffic and travelling 
 along the Worton and Deddington road. That styled in 
 the parish books "Westcott Bridge/' and stated in 1755 to 
 have been repaired with the " great stones drawn from the 
 Pound/' p. 32, one of which measured no less than nine feet 
 in length, three feet in breadth, and ten inches in depth, 
 sufficed for foot passengers only, though on extreme occa- 
 sions it could be used as a bridle way. The bridge was 
 commenced in July of the above-named year, and was com- 
 pleted within six weeks, at a cost of about 121. It consists 
 of one arch, the span being eight feet wide by four deep. 
 The stone was obtained from a field adjoining, on the west. 
 Mr. James Hopcroft, of Deddington, was the contractor and 
 builder. It was erected under the superintendence of Mr. 
 Peter Bennett, the district surveyor of highways, and was 
 thus reported upon in Jackson's Oxford Journal of Jan. 4, 
 1868 : "Oxfordshire Epiphany Quarter Sessions County 
 Bridges The county surveyor's certificate that a new public 
 bridge between Middle and Westcott Barton has been erected
 
 54 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 to his satisfaction having been read, the bridge was declared 
 a 'County Bridge.'" 
 
 In the autumn of 1868 another bridge over the same 
 stream, on the Bicester and Enstone turnpike-road, was 
 rebuilt at the expense of the county, the old bridge having 
 become unsafe. The stone for this bridge was obtained from 
 the same pit as the former. Mr. John Fisher, county sur- 
 veyor, was the architect, and W. Grimsley, of Middle Barton, 
 the contractor for the same, at 95. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE LAND TAX AND OTHER PROPERTY TAXES. 
 
 THE land-tax on Westcott Barton amounts to a total of 
 41, which comprises the sums of 20 Os. 2d. assessed and 
 exonerated, and 20 10s lOd. assessed and not exonerated. 
 The disproportion observable in this tax, levied upon various 
 places, arises from the more improved and increasing value 
 of land in some counties and parishes over others. The 
 assessment is a fixed charge of one shilling in the pound on 
 the valuation of the estates taken in the year 1692. It has 
 frequently been the subject of legislation, with a view prin- 
 cipally to encourage its redemption ; but, all things con- 
 sidered, it does not seem that it would be to the advantage 
 of the landowner/" unless he contemplated building exten- 
 sively, whatever pecuniary inducements might be held out 
 to him to do so, that he should effect any further redemption 
 of the charge. 
 
 As regards the assessment of property in the parish for 
 other taxable purposes, that for the Union relief of the poor, 
 and the maintenance of highways is 1,525 (1868) ; and as 
 regards the Poor-rates, while, by the returns to Parliament 
 
 * See Handy-book of Property Law, by Lord St. Leonards, 2nd edit., Edin. 
 and Lond., 1858, p. 60.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 55 
 
 as stated by Young, the average of the county was 4s. 8d. 
 in the pound in 1803 (Young's Survey, p. 43), the rate of 
 Westcott Barton for that year was only 4s. Id., the total 
 money raised by Poor-rates within the year ending Easter, 
 1803, being 147 8s. 4d. (p. 57), and the rent of land being 
 20s an acre. The population at the census of 1801 was 
 184. The total money raised by order of the Union Board 
 of Guardians within the year ending Michaelmas, 1865, was 
 133 6s. 3|d., including the County-rate demand of 
 33 4s. Sd. The census of 1861 returned the parish as 
 consisting of 302 persons. Under the new Valuation Act, 
 the average rent of land to farm with buildings in Westcott 
 Barton at the date 1865 appears to be 30s. 9d. an acre; 
 the gross estimated rental of the parish, 1,814. A seven 
 years' average charged upon the parish, and ending Lady- 
 day, 1868, amounted to 106 18s., which includes the 
 Highway-rate. A seven years' average charged for the 
 County-rate at the same date was 31 9s. 4d. The Cattle 
 Plague demand upon the parish (which itself was not visited 
 by the plague) was 38 2s. 6d. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. 
 
 BUCKLAND, in his volume entitled Curiosities of Natural 
 History, London, 1865, pp. 64, 65, says : "I have heard of 
 a species of British rat that has become nearly extinct. Mr. 
 Blick, of Islip, informs me that, some years ago, he well 
 recollects seeing in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire a 
 small species of black water-rat, shaped like a mole, with a 
 long body and short legs, and a short, thick head, but this 
 rat is now very rare. The fishermen report that the common 
 water-rat has killed them. It is reported that they are still 
 to be found in Barton Brook, near Woodstock, in Oxford- 
 shire." 
 
 In the month of March, 1859, a mole of a peculiar 
 colour fallow, inclining to white was caught in Westcott
 
 56 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 Old Mead, near Sandford Hedge. Jesse, in his " Gleanings 
 in Natural History," relates an anecdote of a mole-catcher 
 having once shown him a white, or rather a cream-coloured 
 mole, which he had caught near the Eobin Hood Gate in 
 Richmond Park. " These variations," he says, " in the 
 colour of the mole are extraordinary, and I have never yet 
 seen them noticed by any one who has published remarks 
 on the animal" (pp. 135, 136, London, 1843). 
 
 A tract of land in this and the adjoining parish of 
 Sandford, which was formerly wet and swampy, and much 
 frequented by snipes, bears the name of Snipemoor.* It 
 extends from the left of the turnpike-road leading from 
 Barton to Enstone, as far as the Radford Field. The 
 cultivation of the land consequent upon the inclosure 
 of the parish has rendered it useless as feeding ground for 
 these birds, and it has of late years been entirely forsaken. 
 The field retains now the name only, without the slightest 
 appearance of a snipemoor. 
 
 A field in Barton, called " Friar's Scrubbs," serves to keep 
 in remembrance the former connection of the district with 
 a Religious House. 
 
 FAMILY OF BUSWELL. 
 
 The family of Buswell who for about a century and a half, 
 resided in Westcott Barton have entirely disappeared from 
 the parish, leaving the remains of between forty and fifty of 
 their members deposited in the Churchyard. It is now re- 
 presented by the Reverend William Buswell, Rector of 
 Widford, Essex ; he is son of John Buswell, of Oxford, Soli- 
 citor, who was buried here in 1824. William Boseville, High 
 Sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1650f was of this family. He was 
 of Wadham College in the University of Oxford, and was 
 created Doctor of Law, June 30, 1630, 6 Ch. I. Wood in 
 
 * A piece of ground in the parish, called Snitemore. Rawlinson's MSS., c. 
 1720, Bodl. Lib. 
 
 t Davenport's Lords Lieutenant and High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire, from 
 1086 to 1868.
 
 WESTCOTT BARTON. 57 
 
 his Atheuse et Fasti Oxonienses, vol. 1, p. 868, fol. Lond. 
 1691, says that " Will : Boswell was a learned civilian, and 
 was afterwards High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, about 1652 
 dying unmarried April, 1678 ; aged 79 years ; he was buried 
 in All Saint's Church, in the city of Oxford near the grave 
 of his father William Boswell, sometimes Alderman of the 
 said city." In Guillim's Display of Heraldry, p. 372, sect. 
 v. ch. xix, fol. Lond., 1724, the arms are thus described : 
 " Ar, five fusils in fess gules, each charged with a martlet or, 
 and in chief three bear's heads erased sa. muzzled of the 
 third, granted June 10, 1638, to Dr. William Bosvile and 
 Edward his brother, sons of William Bosvile, sometime al- 
 derman of Oxford, who was the son of James Bosvile, of 
 Yorkshire/' In Wood's id., Vol. ii, p. 693, one Thomas 
 Bosvile or Boswell, a colonel in the King's Army, was made 
 Master of Arts, November 1, 1642, in the Caroline creation 
 when Charles the first retired to Oxford after the battle of 
 Edgehill. The surname has been spelt at various times 
 Boisville, Bosvile, Boswell, Bus well, Buselle. " There are 
 few families in England," says Burke in his Landed Gentry, 
 1858," which can be traced by means of authentic evidence 
 through so many centuries as that of Bosevile. The sur- 
 name is found in England from nearly the time of the con- 
 quest, when in all probability it was introduced." 
 
 FAMILY OF MARSHALL. 
 
 IN the reign of James I, there was resident on his own 
 estate at Little Tew, one Kalph Marshall, from whose sons
 
 58 MEMORIALS OF 
 
 Kalpli and Nicholas, sprang two branches, the elder Ralph 
 migrated to Ardley, and this branch became extinct, about 
 the middle of the last century ; the property there was 
 sold and now belongs to Mrs. Ann Hind ; the younger Ni- 
 cholas was settled at Enstone, and at the beginning of the 
 eighteenth century his great grandson Nicholas was living 
 there, who in 1735 married Esther, the niece of Joseph 
 Taylor, of Sandford, owner of one of the portions of the 
 manor and advowson of Great Barton, she was sister to 
 William Taylor, who in 1746 purchased the estate of the 
 Dandridge family at Barton. Their grandson Edward married 
 twice, first Priscilla, daughter of Samuel Churchill, who suc- 
 ceeded the Buswells in the manor of Westcott Barton, she died 
 without issue secondly Mary Anne, daughter of Dr. James 
 Burton, Canon of Christ Church, and Rector of Over Wor- 
 ton and Lower Worton. The issue of this marriage was 
 three sons and two daughters ; the eldest son Edward, is 
 owner of the family estates at Enstone and Sandford, is a 
 widower and has issue the second is the author of these 
 Memorials, he married in 1852, Elizabeth Kelson, eldest 
 daughter of John Stothert, of Bathwick, of the family of 
 Stothert of Cargen, N.B. By her he has issue : 
 
 Jenner Guest, b. March 26, 1861 
 
 Francis Eden, b. July 12, 1863. 
 
 John Mortimer, b. August 18, 1864, d. Nov. 10. 
 
 Elizabeth Stothert. 
 
 Mary Anne Burton. 
 
 Eleanor Katharine. 
 
 Alice Susanna.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 POPE NICHOLAS' TAXATION OP THE LIVING NONARUM INQUISITIONES 
 VALUATION IN THE KING'S BOOKS PENSIONS AND PORCIONS IN THB 
 ABBEYS OP EYNESHAM AND OSENEY GRANTS OF LAND TO OSENEY 
 GRANTS OP THE ADVOWSON AND OF LANDS TO EYNESHAM. 
 
 Taxatio Eccles. P. Nicolai, c. 1292-3, p. 31. 
 
 Lincoln' Diocesis. 
 
 Decanatus de Wodestock. 
 
 Archidiaconatus Oxon'. Lincoln' Spirit'. 
 
 Ecclia de Barton' Parva deduct' pens' 4 6s. 8d. 
 
 Pens' Abb'is de Egnesham in eadem 6s. 8d. 
 
 Beneficia Eccleastica ad x mr c' et infra taxat' quor' possessorea 
 aliunde non sunt beneficiati, p. 41. 
 
 Archid' Oxon'. 
 Wodestock. Ecclia de pva Barton' deduct' pens' 4 6s. 8d. 
 
 Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scacc. Temp. Regis Edward III. 1327 1377. 
 Decanat. de Wodestock, p. 138. 
 
 Barton P'va. 
 
 Ecclia poch' ejusdilj cu omibz suis porconibz taxat' ad iiiiH- vi s - viii d - cujus 
 non' predict' assed' ad liii 3 - iiii d - et no plus p inquis' jurat' predict' q' gleb' cu 
 fen' et al' dec' val' xxviii 8 - iiii d - nee sunt ibidiii ut dicut catallar 5 &c. 
 
 Valor Ecclesiasticus 26 Hen. VIII. 1534. 
 
 Westcote Barton, vol. ii., p. 183. 
 Drugonus Fever. Rector ibm et Rectoria sua valet p r - an m - 
 
 s. d. 
 
 In omlbus decimis oblac' tr 5 et^aliis pvents p r - an m - coibus annis vii. x. vii. ob'l' 
 Sm a - vii. x. vii. ob'q' 
 
 Unde In resoluc. ant is - Ep5 Lincoln, et ejus Arch no p r an m - x. vii. ob'l' 
 
 Sna a - x. vii. ob'q' 
 
 et rem' clar' vii. 
 
 Dec' a - p 3 - xiii. 
 
 Eyneshana Monastery,* ib., vol. ii., p. 211. Anthony Dunstone, Abbot. 
 Pensions and Porcions in Oxfordshire. 
 
 In the Dioc' of Lincolne. s. d. 
 
 In the pishe churche of Li till Barton vi. viii 
 
 * Eynesham Monastery, dedicated to St. Mary, was founded for Benedictine Monks by Ethelmar 
 Earl o'f Cornwall. King Edward confirmed it 1005. Robert Bluet, Bishop of Lincoln was a bene- 
 factor. Its revenues were valued at 421 16s. Id.
 
 60 APPENDIX. 
 
 Decanat' Oxon' in Com' Oxon' et E'pi Lincoln' Dioc', p. 215. 
 Monasterii de Osney* in com P'.D'.C'.O'. Joh'ne Burton, Abb'te ibm. 
 
 Barton Odonis, Barton Magna, 
 Medyll Barton, et Wescot, p. 217. 
 
 s. d. ) 
 
 Valet in Reddit' tenenc' custum' p r an m - . x. v. f 
 
 Firma Rectorie et terr' prat' pase' et pastur' dnic' x 
 
 Ibm sic' dimiss' Johl' Hanwell p. indentur*. xxviii. ) 
 
 Unde in. 
 Ppet' rep's- 
 
 Perpetua Elemosin' distr' inter paupes' poch' per an m - . x. 
 
 Decim solut' Abbat' et Convent' Colcestr' an tim imppi 
 
 imppm ex com- 
 
 
 
 mi. 
 
 posicoe ....... ix. 
 
 Decim' solut' Colleg' de Eton pro terr' in Middel Barton p an m - 
 
 ex compoe . . . . . . . x. 
 
 Et valet clare . . xxviii. x. v. 
 
 The Tithes payable to the Abbot and Convent of Colchester were given by Eudo 
 Sewer, or Steward, in the Courts of William Conq., William Rui'us, and King 
 Henry the First. He was founder of the Abbey dedicated to St. John in the 
 year 1096. These tithes in composition became the property of the Dean and 
 Chapter of Christ Church,t and, having reverted to the Crown, formed part of 
 the grant by King Henry the Eighth to Leonard Chamberlain and John Blun- 
 dell, of the rectory and premises of Great Barton, otherwise Steeple Barton, 
 Barton Odo, Mydle Barton, and Westcote, with the exception of the reprise to 
 the College of Eton. 
 
 The Charge to Eton College has relation to an arrangement with the Abbot 
 and Convent of Oseney concerning two parts of the tithes of the Lordship of 
 Robert Arsic in Little Barton for the payment instead thereof of ten shillings 
 annually to the Priory of Cogges, near Witney, by the Abbey of Oseney, which 
 claimed the tithes for the Church of Great Barton against the Abbot and Con- 
 vent of Fiscamp in Normandy. The Priory was an alien cell founded by the 
 monks of Fiscamp, to whom Manasser de Arsic, reserving to himself the Lord- 
 ship, had given the Church of Cogges, with certain lands and tithes in divers 
 places. (See post.) " After the dissolution of the foreign cells, Henry 
 the Sixth, in pursuance of a plan projected by his father, made Cogges a part, 
 of the demesnes with which he endowed his College of Eton."j This payment 
 from Barton has now been extinguished. 
 
 PRIORY OF COGGES. 
 
 (A renewal of a grant of Manasser Arsic to the Abbot and Monks of Fiscamp, 
 and a gift of two garbs of tithe at Barton.) 
 
 Num. ii. 
 
 Alia carta ejusdem Manasserii Arsic. (Dugd. Monast., vol. vi., p. 1003.) 
 Cartas Antiquas (N. 9.) (In Bibl. Harl. MS. 2044, fol. 105. 
 
 Anno ab incarnatione Mciii. Manasserus Arsic renovavit cartam suam quam 
 prius Fiscanensi Ecclesia? fecerat de rebus suis coram Domino Willielmo 
 
 * Ostiey Monastery, dedicated to St. Mary, was founded for Blacke Canons by Robert, son of 
 Nigel d'Oiley, 1139. Its revenues were valued at 755 18s. 6d. Speed's History of England, B. 9, 
 ;h xxi., p. 1074, fol., Loud., 1632 ; Catalogue of Religious Houses mostly suppressed by K. Hen. 
 VIII. 
 
 t See Account of Sandford, by Rev. E. Marshall, pp. 58, 62. 
 
 t See History of Witney, by the Rev. Dr. Giles, Lond., J. R. Smith, p. 72-3; also Kennett's 
 Faroe. Antiq., vol. i., p. 110.
 
 APPENDIX. 61 
 
 Abbate tertio, et Monachis et hominibus ejusdem, tertio nonas Novembris 
 apud Coges et ibi tune concessit domum suum de Cogis et ecclesiam inde 
 faciendam, et eccliam ipsius Villse, cum terra ad earn pertinente et terram ad 
 duas carucas et boscum ad ardendum et ad omnia opera monachorum et viri- 
 darium suura. Dedit ad Berton duas garbas. Hsec omnia dedit volente et 
 consentiente uxore sua, et filiis suis. Testes &c. Signum Manasserii. Signum 
 Boberti filii ejus. 
 
 Ecclesia Collegiata de Eton (juxta Windesore in com. Buckingham). 
 
 Num. xii. 
 Carta dicti Henrici Sexti de dotatione ejusdem. 
 
 Dugd. Monast., vol vi., p. 1436. 
 
 A COMPOSITION BETWEEN THE ABBOT AND CONVENT OF OSENEY AND THE 
 ABBOT AND CONVENT OF FISCAMP CONCERNING TITHES IN LITTLE 
 BARTON. 
 
 (From the Oseney Chartulary in the possession of the Dean and Canons of Ch. 
 
 Ch., Oxford.) 
 
 Fol. lix. b. Ix. Compositio inter nos et Monachos de Fiscampo 
 
 de decimis in Parva Bartona. 
 
 Omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum inspecturis. Abbas Eynesham 
 et Decanus Oxon. Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noverit universitas 
 vestra nos mandatum Domini Papse in haec verba suscepisse. 
 
 Honorius Episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis Abbati Eynesham. 
 Priori Sanctee Frideswyde et Decano Oxon. Line. Dioc. Salutem et Apostoli- 
 cam benedictionem. Dilecti filii Abbas et Conventus Osenei ordinis Sancti 
 Augusti nobis conquerendo monstrarunt quod cum Abbas et Conventus de 
 Lyra ordinis Sancti Benedicti et quidam alii Hereford, Wigorn, Dioc. et Lin- 
 coln Dioc. Super decimis et rebus aliis injuriant eisdem. Ideoque discretioni 
 vestre per Apostolica scripta mandamus, quatenus convocatis partibus audiatis 
 causam et appellatione remota fine debito terminetis quod decreveritis per 
 censuram Ecclesiasticam firmiter observari. Testes autem qui fuerint nomi- 
 nati si se gratia odio vel timore subtraxerint per censuram eandem appellatione 
 cessante cogatis veritati testimonium perhibere. Quod si non omnes hiis 
 exequendis potueritis intercesse, duo vestrum ea nichilominus exequantur. 
 Dat. Lateran. iiij non. Decemb. Pontificatus nostri anno quinto. 
 
 Harum igitur auctoritate literarum Abbas et Conventus Osenei per procura- 
 torem in presentia nostra constituti duas partes decimarum Domini ci Robert! 
 Arsic in Parva Bartona asserebant de jure communi ad ecclesiam suam de 
 Magna Bartona pertinere, quas ab Abbate de Fiscampo instanter petebant. 
 Qui per procuratorem videlicet Eogerum tune temporis Priorem de Coges 
 coram nobis comparuerat Cum igitur idem procurator ad totam causam 
 motam super dictis decimis inter praedictos Abbates et Conventus datus literas 
 procuratorias coram nobis in juclicio exhibuisset, in quibus continabatur quod 
 Abbas et Conventus de Fiscampo ratum essent havituri quicquid in prsedicta 
 caiisa egisset, tandem post multas alterationes communes inter partes lis amica- 
 biliter in hunc modum conquievit videlicet quod predictus procurator Abbatis 
 et Conventus de Fiscampo. " Abbati et Conventui de Oseneia predictas decimas 
 ad perpetuam firmam concessit et eosdem in corporalem possessionem induxit 
 pro decem solidos stirlingorum singulis annis apud Oseneiam Priori de Coges 
 ad festum Sancti Michaelis sive infra Octabas ejusdem solvendis. Si non
 
 62 APPENDIX. 
 
 aliqua decimarum pertinens ad dictam compositionem venerit alter! parti 
 penam viginti solidorum persolvet. Nos igitur hanc compositionem ratam 
 habentes auctoritate domini Papee earn duximus confinnare. In cujus rei per- 
 petuam memoriam literis procuratoriis Abbatis et Conventus Fiscainpi traditis 
 Abbati et Conventui Osenei una cum sigillo Prioris de Coges Priore de Sanctte 
 Frideswyde ad totam causain literatorie excusato sigilla nostra apposuimus 
 Hiis testibus, &c. 
 
 A GRANT OP TWENTY-FIVE ACRES OF LAND TO OSENEY ABBEY, 
 BY THOMAS HYDE. 
 
 (From the Oseney chartulary in the possession of the Dean and Canons of 
 Christ Church, Oxford.) 
 
 Fol. XXIII Hyda et Westkote Barton. 
 
 P. 61. Carta Thoinse de Hyda de XXV Acris. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Thomas de Hyda dedi et concessi et 
 hac presenti carta mea connrrnavi Deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie de Osenei et do- 
 mino Ricardo abbati et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus viginti quinque 
 acras terre arabilis cum omnibus suis pertinentiis in campis de Westkote Bar- 
 ton, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam. Quatuor duo deceni acre jacent in 
 campo aquilonari scilicet in cultura que appellatur Brerfurlong,* et in campo 
 australi super Ramedune tres culturas que continent duodecem acras, et imam 
 acram in Moyles Brech, juxta terrain Petri de Bartona. Tenendum et habendum 
 dictis ecclesie et canonicis et eorum successoribus bene et in pace libere et 
 quiete in pascuis et pasturis cum libero introitu et exitu per totum campum de 
 Westkote Bartona in perpetuum. Concessi et pro me et heredibus meis et meis 
 assiguatis quod dicti abbas et canonici et eorum successores quieti sint in per- 
 petuum de omnimodis curie sectis, auxilio, tallagiis, scutagiis, et de omnibus 
 exactionibus et demandis in perpetuum. Et ego Thomas et heredes mei et 
 assignati predictas viginti quiuque acras cum omnibus pertinentiis suis dictis 
 abbati et canonicis et eorum successionibus contra omnes christianos et judseos 
 warantizabimus acquietabinius et defendemus ut puram et perpetuam elemosi- 
 nam nostram. Et ut hsec mea donatio et concessio rata sit et stabilis in perpe- 
 tuum huic scripto sigilluni nieum apposui. Hiis testibus, &c. 
 
 A CONFIRMATION OF THE SAME. ibid. 
 (Confirmatio Petri de Westkote Bartona de eadem donatione.) 
 
 Noverint universi quod ego Petrus de Westkote Bartona concessi pro me et 
 heredibus meis et meis assignatis et hac presenti carta mea connrmavi Deo et 
 ecclesie sancte Marie de Osenei et canonicis in ea Deo servientibus donationem 
 quam eis fecit Thomas de Hyda de terris et tenementis que sunt de feodo meo 
 in Westkote Bartoua. Tenendum et habendum dictis ecclesie et canonicis in 
 puram et perpetuam elemosinam sicuti carte quas habent de feofamento ple- 
 nius testantur. In cujus rei testimonium huic scripto sigillum nieum apposui. 
 Hiis testibus, &c. 
 
 * Query Brocfurlong. (.1. M.)
 
 APPENDIX. 63 
 
 A GRANT OP ONE ACRE BY JOHN LE FRE. Ibid. 
 (Carta Johannis Le Fre de Parva Bartona de una Acra.) 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Johannes Le Fre de Westkote Bartona 
 dedi concessi et hac present! carta mea confirmavi Deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie 
 de Osenei et canonicis in ea Deo servientibus unam acram terre arabilis in 
 campo de Westkote Bartona, cum omnibus suis pertinenciis que quidem acra 
 jacet in cultura que vocatur, Doddendenesfielde. Teneudum et habendum dictis 
 ecclesie et canonicis in purain et perpetuam elemosinam cum libero introitu et 
 exitu per totum campuin de Westkote Bartona. Et ego Johannes et heredes 
 mei et mei assignati dictam acram cum pertinenciis prefatis ecclesie et canonicis 
 contra omnes Christianos et Judeos warantizabimus acquietabimus et defende- 
 mus ut pnram et perpetuam elemosinam nostram et tit hsec mea donacio et con- 
 cessio rata sit et stabilis in perpetuum huic scripto ?igillum ineum apposui. 
 Hiis testibus, &c. 
 
 A GRANT OF ANOTHER ACRE BY JOHN LE FRE. Ibid. 
 (Carta Johannis Le Fre de alia Acra.) 
 
 Omnibus Christ! fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Johannes Le 
 Fre de Parva Bartona salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra me de- 
 disse concessisse et hac carta mea confirmasse Deo et beate Marie et fratri 
 Willelmo de Sutton permissione divina Abbati de Osenei et canonicis ejusdem 
 loci ibidem Deo servientibus unam acram terre mee arabilis, cum omnibus 
 pertinenciis suis in campis de Parva Bartona pro salute anime mee et animarum 
 antecessorum meorum cujus una dimidia acra jacet ex parte orientali del Sondi 
 Wey versus Dunestywa juxta terram Willielmi Gefrey et alia dimidia acra 
 jacet in eodem campo videlicet in Wowelonde,* jiixta terram ejusdem Willielmi 
 Gefrey. Habendum et tenendum illam acram cum pertinenciis suis in puram 
 et perpetuam elemosinam pro anima mea et animabus autecessorum meorum 
 in perpetuum. Et ego Johannes et heredes mei dictam acram terre cum perti- 
 nenciis suis Deo et beate Marie et dicto W. Abbati ac dictis canonicis waran- 
 tizabimus acquietabimus et defendemus contra omnes mortales in perpetuum. 
 Et ut hsec mea donacio concessio et carte hujus connrmacio rate et stabiles et 
 inconcusse in perpetuum perrnaneant hanc cartam sigilli mei impressione cor- 
 roboravi. Hiis testibus, &c. 
 
 The date of this grant is circa 1270. 
 
 A GRANT OF THE ADVOWSON OF BARTON CHURCH TO EYNESHAM 
 ABBEY, BY ALEXANDER DE BARTONA. 
 
 (From the Eynesham Chartulary in the possession of the Dean and 
 Canons of Ch. Ch. Oxford.) 
 
 Fol. xxxv De ecclesia de Bertona. 
 
 No. 117. 
 
 Notum sit omnibus ad quos presens cartam pervenerit quod ego Alexander de 
 Bertona, Willielmus filius meus et heres meus dedimus et concessimus monasterio 
 
 * Query Worlelomle. (J.M.)
 
 64 APPENDIX. 
 
 Sancte Marie cle Egnesliam pro salute animarum mearum et omnium paren- 
 tium nostroruni in perpetuam elemosinam ecclesiam de Bertoua cum omni- 
 bus pertinenciis suis liberam et quietam ab omni consuetudine et exaccione 
 seculari assensu et consilio Martini presbyteri ejusdem ecclesie persone. 
 
 Hiis testibus Willielmo Malet Godefro presbytero. 
 
 Waltero scriptore. Humfrido de Bertona. 
 
 Ricardo de Sancto Johanne. Henrico filio Ranulfi. 
 
 GRANT OF A MEADOW CALLED MUNECHEMED BY 
 HELTAS DE BERTONA. Ibid. 
 
 Fol. xxxvii b - De prato quodam in villa de Bertona. 
 No. 135 
 
 Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis, Helyas de Bertona salutem, sciatis 
 me reddidisse et confirmasse Deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie de Egnesliam et 
 monachis ejusdem loci pratum unum quod dicitur Munechemed in villa de 
 Bertona, quod pater meus Eudo illis quondam douaverat. Et ego nunc 
 eis illud concedo cum quodam additamento in superiori parte ejusdem 
 prati quare volo et heredibus meis mando et precipio quatenus hanc 
 elemosinam videlicet pratum, cum meo incremento prefati monachi solide et 
 quiete et libere absque omni servicio et seculari consuetudine in perpetuum 
 possideant. 
 
 Hiis testibus David Archidiacano de Bucchingham. Nigero Presbytero. 
 Roberto de Preston. Radull'o filio Willieluii. 
 
 GRANT OF MORHEY'S LAND BY ALEXANDER DE BERTON. 
 
 (Carta Alexandri de Bertona de terra de Morhei. Ibid.) 
 
 Fol. xxxix 
 
 No. 142. Sciant tarn presentes quam futuri quod ego Alexander de 
 
 Bertona dedi concessi ecclesie Sancti Edmundi de Berton terrain illam de 
 Morhei que fuit Linarium uxoris mee sicut fossa de novo facta comprehendit in 
 perpetuam elemosinam liberam et quietam ab omni servicio et calumpnia, pre- 
 seute Willielmo filio meo et annuente. Hiis testibus. G. Priore de Egne- 
 sliam et Vincentio Sacrista. Alano de Estona. Gilberto fratre ejus. 
 
 GRANT OF CHURCH LAND BY ALEXANDER DE BERTON. 
 (De terra Ecclie de Berton.) 
 
 Fol. xxxix Ibid. 
 
 No. 143. Sciant tarn presentes quam futuri qd ego Alexander de 
 
 Bertona dedi et concessi in perpetuam elemosinam. * * * 
 
 (The rest is wanting, the page having been mutilated.)
 
 APPENDIX. G5 
 
 (CONFIRMATION OF THE GIFT OF THE CHURCH BY HUGH BISHOP OF LINCOLN.) 
 1184. 30-31,! Henry ii. 
 
 The gift of Barton Church, with several others to the Abbey of Eynesham 
 was confirmed by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln in these words : 
 
 Omnibus Christi fidelibus Hugo Lincolniensis Episcopus, &c. 
 
 Confirmamus * * * Ex dono Alexandri de Barton. 
 
 Ecclesiam de Barton. 
 
 Kennett Faroe. Antiq. Vol. i, p. 193. Ref. Reg. Egnes MS. Carta 22. 
 
 Godfrey Abbot occurs in the time of K. Stephen, and also in the reign of 
 K. Henry ii. See Dug. Monast. Vol. iii, p. 2. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. II. 
 
 Two TERRIERS OF THE RECTORY. 
 
 The first of these, dated Nov. 1, 1601 ; shows the position of the Parsonage 
 lands in the open field, and is a copy of the original return preserved in the 
 Registry of the Archdeaconry of the Diocese. 
 
 The other dated December 21, 1675 ; details a curious valuation of the 
 living ; and is also preserved in the Registry of the Archdeaconry. 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 Westcott Barton, The Parsonage Glebe is two yearde lands, whereof xxxiii 
 acres arable lying bounded in the common fields as followeth : 
 Tillage. In the South feilde vij acres, viz. 
 
 2 Two lyinge east and by west, next unto an hedge on the north side 
 
 of the farme peace by Wotton downes on the other side. 
 
 3 Three lyinge east and by west, next unto an hedge on the south side 
 
 and the farme peece of Middle Barton on the other. 
 
 2 Tow lyinge east and by west betweene Collins peece and Midle 
 Barton leete, and shuttinge upon Oxforde waie by the farm hedge 
 of Steeple Barton. 
 
 In the feilde above the towne on the 
 
 south side xiiij acres, viz. 
 7 Seven acres lyinge east and by west, shuttinge into Woodstocke waie 
 
 and wayed over with oure common waie to Oxforde. 
 1 One acre north and by south by the Towne side having a pitt in 
 
 the midst, and lying betwne Westcott and Middle Barton leete. 
 1 One acre north and by south, shutting into Norton waie and lying 
 
 betweene the Mill acre and Woodstocke waie. 
 1 One acre east and by west beneath louge hedge, and whereupon some 
 
 of the farme peece butteth. 
 
 3 Three acres, east and by west between the same farme peece and Middle 
 Barton leete, whereof one acre shutteth upon the end of the greene waie
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 above the towne ; the other two upon a meere that is between the 
 farm peeces. 
 
 1 By Kiddington feilde, one acre shuttinge upon a greate pitt att the 
 
 south end commonlie called the Parson's pitt. 
 
 In the feilde behind Barnell, ix acres, viz : 
 
 2 Tow lyinge betweene the farme peece of Westcott and a Meadow 
 
 grounde belonginge to the farme of Middle Barton, commonlie 
 called Jaies' hole. 
 
 7 Seven acres north and by south above the farme peece and shutting 
 up to the topp of fosthill. 
 
 3 In the feild above the towne on the north side, three acres which lye 
 
 above crosse gapp east and by west, next unto the farme peece. 
 
 In all xxxiii acres of tillage. 
 
 Medow. One medow platt behinde Barnell bearinge commonlie one loade of 
 haie and bounded in by Barnell hedge and the two farme 
 grounds of Westcott and Middle Barton. 
 
 Another medow platt above latforde stone, bearing commonlie three 
 or four cockes of haie and lyinge betweene Richarde Boulde of Midle 
 Barton and Richarde Hopkins of Westcott. 
 
 Several An orcharde and a closse adjoininge to the parsonage house. 
 
 RICHARD GREGSON, 
 
 Rector, ibid. 
 
 Andrew T Gibs, his marke. 
 Richard X Cumber, his marke. 
 Willm. X Hall, his marke. 
 John Gilbert. 
 John Cowper. 
 
 No. 2. 
 
 A true and perfect accompt of the just valour of the Rectory of Westcott 
 Barton alias Little Barton, in the County and Diocese of Oxon, with all its profits 
 and appurtenances exhibited by the Minister and Churchwardens of this said 
 Parish, Dec. A- R. R. C. R. 1. i. Secdi. 27- Anno. Dni. 1675. 
 
 In primis two small yard Land of Glebe . .10 OOs. Od. 
 
 Item, a close unto the House and Homestall be- 
 longing . . . . . . 4 00 
 
 Item, the Great tithes of 35 yard Land and a half 35 00 
 
 Item, the small tithes of the said land . 2 00 
 
 Item, the Parsonage House, Outhouses, Yards, Or- 
 chards, and Gardens, which having never in our 
 memory been sett we know not how to value. 
 
 In all 51 90 
 Out of which must be deducted for our customary 
 
 dinner, annually . . . . . 5 00
 
 APPENDIX. 67 
 
 And for dues to the Parish in entertainment every 
 Easter. The which being deducted out of the 
 aforesaid sum, the just value of our Rectory 
 
 amounteth to ..... 44 00 
 
 Witness our hands 
 WILLIAM MARTIN "i 
 ROBERT BUSELLE > Churchwardens, 
 his mark ) 
 
 lObris. 21 mo. 1675. 
 
 We believe this to be a true account. 
 LITTLETON OSBALSTON. 
 THOS. CHAMBERLAYNE. 
 
 Extract from a Terrier taken the 9th day of June, 1805. 
 
 N. B. The Parishioners uphold and repair the Church and Churchyard 
 Fences, and the Rector the Chancel. In the Church are a chest the necessary 
 books and vestments for the proper and decent celebration of divine worship 
 and a silver cup and cover. 
 
 Wm. Mason, Curate Wilm. Hollis, John Young, Jun., Churchwardens. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. III. 
 DOMESDAY BOOK. SURVEY OF WILL. CONQ. 1086. 
 
 Oxfordshire. VII Terra Epi Baiocensia. 
 
 Wadard' ten' i hid' et dim' et vi acr* t're in Bertone. T'ra iii car'. N'c in 
 diiio ii car* cu i seruo et iiii uill'i^et i bord.' Hnt ii car*. Ibi molin' ii sol' 
 et v acr* prati. Valuit xl sol' modoUx solid'. 
 
 Adam' ten' x hid' in ead' uilla. (JFraxvi car'. N'c in dnio iiii car' et ix send 
 et xviii uill'i cu v bord'. Hnt xiiicar"^ Ibi ii molin' de x sol' et ix acr* prati. 
 Valuit xii lib', modo xx lib'.
 
 6-8 APPENDIX. 
 
 XXIX Terra Rogerii de Iveri. 
 
 Will's ten' de R. in Rovesham et in Bertone iii hid' et dim' virg' t're et ii acr'. 
 T'ra est vi car'. "N'c in dnio iii car' et iii serui et vi uill'i cu viii Lord'. Hnt 
 iii car'. Il>i viii acr' prati. Valuit iii lib' modo c solid'. 
 
 VIII. Terra Epi Lisiacensis. 
 
 Ide Epi ten' Bertone et Rotroc de eo. Ibi sunt v hide. T'ra viii car'. N'c in 
 dnio iii car' et v serui et x uill'i cu iiii bord'. Hnt v car'. Ibi cli acr' prati. 
 Pastura i qrent' lg et dim' lat. Valuit vii lib'. Has t'ras tenuit Levuin' sic voluit. 
 
 TENANTS IN CHIEF UNDER THE KINO, AND THEIR UNDER TENANTS. 
 
 Bishop of Baieux. v. Odo, Accompanied his half brother William of Nor- 
 mandy in 1066, in his expedition against England. After the conquest he was 
 remunerated with numerous Lordships, thirty-two of which were in Oxford- 
 shire. 1668, he was made Justiciaries Angliae, in which office he was asso- 
 ciated with Hugh de Grantmesnil, whose wife was a daughter of Roger de 
 Ivery, and William Fitzosbern the Conqueror's great .counsellor. " Qui prse 
 aliis omnibus conquestorem excitavit ad Angliam excidium exercitusque ejus 
 
 S.rtem tertiam duxit." Spelman's works, fol. Lond. 1724, p. 165. Catalog, 
 arescall. Ang. 
 
 Roger de Ivery was son of William de Ivery, who held estates in Normandy. 
 He also was a follower of William, and agreed with Robert de Oiley to share 
 fortunes together. Robert for his good services was rewarded with the gift 
 of Hoke Norton, and divers other manors and lands in six counties, of which 
 Barton and Chipping Norton, with a chief seat at Beckley, near Oxford, he 
 conveyed agreeably to the arrangement, which was no uncommon one among 
 warriors in those times, to Roger de Ivery, whose Barony was first called the 
 Barony of Ivery, and was afterwards changed for the name of St. Walery upon 
 its grant to Reginald St. Walery. 
 
 Bishop ofLisieux, v. Gislebertus, had manors in Wilts, Dorset, Hertf., Bucks, 
 Oxf. 
 
 PFadard, undertenant at the survey held land in Kent, Surrey, Wilts, Dorset, 
 Oxf., Warwick, and Lincolnshire he has obtained special notice in the pictures 
 of the Baieux tapestry. 
 
 Adam was undertenant in Kent, Hertf., Oxf. 
 
 Willelmus. Willielmus. In Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Berks, Wilts, Dor- 
 set, Somerset, Devon, Cornw., Hertf., Bucks, Oxf., Glouc., Wore., Camb., 
 Hunts., Northamp., Leicest., Warwick, Staff., Shrops., Chester, inter. Rip. 
 and Mersey, Derb., Notting., Yorks., Line., Essex, Norf., Suff. 
 
 Rotroc. In Oxfordshire only. 
 
 * See DiiRdale's Baronage ; Kennett's Faroe. Antiq. ; Speed's History of England ; Ellis 
 General Introduction to Domesday Book.
 
 APPENDIX. 69 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. IV. 
 
 THE BLACK BOOK OF THE EXCHEQUER HEN. II. 
 
 Liber Niger Farms Scaccarii, Oxford, 1728, vol. i., p. 177. 
 
 Carta Manasseri Arsic de feodis suis. 
 
 Odo de Berton tenuit in tempore R. H. 
 feodum i militia et Humfridus filius ejus tenet. 
 
 * Arsic. 
 
 " The Arsics are stated to liave been descended from the old Saxon Earls or 
 Aldermen of Oxford." 
 
 After the disgrace of Odo, Bishop of Baieiix, King William distributed his 
 estates to certain knights, and among those who obtained a portion was William 
 de Arsic, father of Manasser, the head of the Barony of Cogges. Robert, his 
 descendant in 17th John, was among the rebellious Barons, and his possessions 
 in Oxfordshire were seized into the King's hands. Upon the reconciliation, his 
 lands were restored, and in 13 Hen. III. he had his discharge. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 No. V. 
 
 THE BOOK OF FIEFS, HENRY III. AND EDWARD I. 
 
 Testa de Nevill sive Liber Feodorum in Curia Scaccarii Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 and Ed. I. 
 
 Nomina eorum qui tenent feoda militaria in com' Oxon' et de quibus ipsi tenent. 
 Feod' Will'i de Kaynes. P. 102. 
 
 Hugo Peynel ten' in Westcote Barton' f unius m' de f ' ejusdem Will'i. 
 Feoda que tenemur in capite de Rege. P. 103. 
 
 Hund' de Wotton'. 
 
 Westcote Barton Hugo Paynel ten' in Warda feod' unius milit' in eadem 
 
 de Will'o de Kaynes et idem Will's tenet in capite de Rege 
 
 cum una hida terre in Parva Tiwa. 
 
 Peynel and Kaynes. 
 
 For an account of the family of Peynel, Paynel, or Paganel, see Dugdale's 
 Baronage and Collinson's Somersetshire, vol. ii., p. 390, Ed. 1791, under Hunts- 
 pill, also Lipscomb's History of Buckinghamshire. 
 
 The Paynelles were Lords of the Castelle, and gave their names to the town 
 of Newport Pagnell. 
 
 * See Dr, Giles' History of Wituey, \\ 71 ; Dug. Bar., vol. i, p. 538.
 
 70 APPENDIX. 
 
 For an account of the Keynes, Kaynes, or Cahaignes, see also Baker's North- 
 amptonshire, vol. i., p. 355, Ed. 1820-30. They were owners of large estates 
 in Gloucestershire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Northamptonshire. Ralph, 
 surnamed De Caineto, came into England with the Conqueror, and had issue, 
 two sons, Ealph and William. Ralph obtained the Fee of Tarent, and William 
 had, at the survey, according to Dugdale in his Baronage, Barton, in Hertford- 
 shire, and Flore, in Northamptonshire. The former would seem to be in error 
 for Oxfordshire. He or his immediate successor was enfeoffed with certain of 
 the forfeited or sequestrated possessions of the Bishop of Baieux. One of his 
 descendants in the fourth generation, William, died 6 Hen. III., 1221, leaving 
 a widow, Lettice, who married, secondly, Ralph Paynell. She died 7 Ed. I., 
 1278. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. VI. 
 
 ABSTRACT OF PLEAS, ED. I. 
 Abbreviatio Placiiprum, p. 186. 
 Pl'cita coram D'no Rege et Concilio euo, &c., Anno Regni Regis Edw. II do - 
 
 Termino Pasch. Anno Sec. Assisa si Edmund' comes Comub' et al' diss' 
 Simonem fil' Guidonis de com' pasture sue in Munegrave que pertinet ad lib'uiu 
 ten' suu in Warmedescumbe, &c. Rot 3 in dorso. 
 
 Assisa, &c., pro tenement' in Westbarton. Oxon. Rot 5 in dorso. 
 
 Edmund Earl of Cornwall. 
 
 Edmund Earl of Cornwall, grandson of King John, was the son and heir of 
 Richard King of the Romans, his elder brother, Henry, having been murdered 
 in Italy as he was on his way home from the Holy Wars. He succeeded to 
 large estates and numerous advowsons in Oxfordshire. A frequent place of 
 residence to him and his father was the capital seat of the Honour of St. 
 Walery at Beckley, near Oxford. He built and endowed Reuley Abbey, at 
 North Oseney, for a Monastery of Cistercian Monks, to offer perpetual prayers 
 for the soul of his father. His death occurred Oct. 1, 1300, 28 and 29 Ed. I, 
 at the Convent of Ashrugge, Bucks, which he had founded in 1285.* 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. VII. 
 
 HUNDRED ROLLS OF EDWARD I. 
 Rotuli Hundredorum, 7 Ed, I.. 1278, vol. n. 
 Com' Oxon'. Hund' de Wotton'. 
 
 Parva Bartona, p. 853. 
 Petrus de Barton' tenet in eadem villa feod' uni' milit' de Roberto de Rennes 
 
 * Ejctra<;te<l from Kennett's Faroe. Antiq., vol. i., in loris.
 
 APPENDIX. 71 
 
 et idem Robertus cle domino Rcge in capite de feod' Tarent' et tenet in domi- 
 uico ii carrucat' terra et sect' hundred' de Wotton' de tribus septim' in tres 
 septim' et duos advent' ad comitat' per ann'. 
 
 Villani. 
 
 Johannes fiV Henr 1 tenet unam virgatam terras de eodem in vilenagio pro 
 ii s et vi d per annum et ad hyclag 1 vi d per annum domino Regi et wardsilver 
 ob' et qa operabitur et talliabitur et redimet pueros suos ad voluntatem domini. 
 
 Thomas Bihun de Watere tenet de eodem unam virgat' terras eodem modo. 
 
 Willelmus Halpeny tenet de eodem uuam virgat' terras eodem modo. 
 
 Radulphus Wastel tenet de eodem unam virgat' terras eodem modo. 
 
 Willelmus de Blechesdon' tenet de eodem unam virgat' terras eodem modo. 
 
 Hugo BallM tenet de eodem unam virgat' terras eodem modo. 
 
 Thomas de Glanmlle tenet de eodem unam virgat' terrae eoden modo. 
 
 Reginaldus de Barton' tenet de eodem dimidiam virgat' terras pro xvd per 
 annum operabitur et talliabitur et redimet pueros suos ad voluntatem domini. 
 
 Hawys Spirt tenet de eodem dimidiam virgat' terras pro xv d per 
 
 annum operabitur et talliabitur et redimet pueros suos ad voluntatem domini. 
 
 Liberi. 
 
 Johannes fiH Willelmi de Barton' tenet unam hydam terrae pro una libra pipe- 
 ris per annum et hydag" xii d wardsilver ob' et scutag' xli 
 
 Idem Johannes tenet unam virgat' terras et dim' de heredibus Thoma? de la 
 Putte et idem Johannes reddit Petro de Barton' iiii 8 et vi d per annum et tenet 
 de dictis heredibus iiii acras terrse pro v d et heredes dicti Thomas fac' sect' cur' 
 dicti Petri pro dicto Johanne et scutag' dicto Petro xxx d et domino Regi 
 hydag' ix d wardsilver q a domino Regi. 
 
 Kicardus de Scod a m tenet ii virgat' terras et tres acras terras de eodem pro ii 
 sol' per annnm et sect' hundred' de Wotton' et hydag' vi d wardsilver q a scu- 
 tag' xxd. 
 
 Thomas fil' Galfridi tenet de eodem unam virgat' terras pro iii 8 per annum et 
 sect' cur 5 sue et sect' hundred' de Wotton' et hydag" vi d - wardsilver q a scutag' 
 xx d - 
 
 Walterus Brabesun tenet unam virgat' terras de predicto Thomas fil' Galfridi 
 et idem Thomas de predicto Petro pro iii sol' eidem Thomas redd' per annum 
 et unam par 5 cirotecarum et scutag' xx d - et hydag vi d et wardsilver q a et duos 
 advent' ad hundred' de Wotton'. 
 
 Willelmus fil' Johannis tenet unam virgat' terras de Magistro Hospital' Jeru- 
 salem' pro iiii 3 et facit duos advent' per annum apud Gosei'ord et eadem vir- 
 gat' terrras solebat esse gyldabil' ad hundred' de Wotton' et solebat dare hydag* 
 vi d - et wardsilver et hevesilver domino Regi et solebat duos advent' ad duos 
 magn' hundred' de Wotton' et subt a itr per eundem Magistrum sed quo wa- 
 ranto nescitur. 
 
 Una virgat' terras descend' tribus sororibus que tenent de eodem Petro et red- 
 dunt eidem iiii 8 et sect' cur' sue' et sect' hundred' de Wotton' et hydag" vi d et 
 wardsilver q a domino. 
 
 Willelmus de Mannowers tenet de Will'o le Espicer Oxon' pro i d - per annum 
 et pro bydag' vi d et idem Will' le E^picer reddit Petro de Barton' unam libram 
 piperis. 
 
 Petrus de Molendin' tenet nnum molendinum etquatuor acras terras de eodem 
 Petro pro x sol' et vi galin' et fac' duos advent' per annum ad magn' hundred' de 
 Wotton'. 
 
 Johannes Burg' tenet dimidiam virgat' terras de eodem pro xii d per an- 
 num et hydag' iii d et duos advent' ad magn' hundred' de Wotton' et sctitag' x (J -
 
 72 APPENDIX. 
 
 Cotarii. 
 
 JVillelmiis le Espicer tenet unum cotag 3 cum tribus acris terrse et medieta- 
 tem terrse Walter! Brabesun pro xvi d eidem Waltero reddendos per annum et 
 idem Walterus reddit dicto Petro pro scutag* vi d et ad hydag' ii d - 
 
 Wilklmus de Ledwelle tenet uiium cotag' et unam rodam teme de Willelmo 
 de Mannowers et idem Will's reddit dicto Petro unam rosam per annum et 
 idem Will's de Ledwelle reddit eidem Petro de Barton' viii d et ad scutag' 
 iii d ' et q* et ad hydag' i d domino Regi. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. VIII. 
 GRANT OF A SUBSIDY TO EDWARD III. 
 
 1327-8, 2 Ed. III., a lay subsidy was granted to the King, and collected in 
 the Hundred of Wootton by Richard de Eadbusburg and John le Mire. The 
 following were names of taxpayers and the several amounts paid : 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Sibillias de Barton . . . . . 18 
 
 Robert de Barton . . . 40 
 
 John de Aula . . . . 26 
 
 William ad Molend . ... . . 08 
 
 Nicholas le Mayster . . . . 12 
 
 Alexander Glanville . . . 08 
 
 John Lye . . . . . 08 
 
 John Annste . . . . . 40 
 
 John Person . . . . . 16 
 
 Robert le G'nt .'",. . . 07 
 
 John le Cooke . . . . 16 
 
 Robert G'nt . . . . . 20 
 
 (W. W., pp. 19, 20.) 21 I
 
 APPENDIX. 73 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 No. IX. 
 
 GRANT OF LAND TO MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD. 
 
 Concessio Simonis Parret Owino Oglethorpe President! et Scliolaribus trium 
 acrarum terrse arab: tune in tenur: Thad: Turner et Thomae Hickes jacent: in 
 Westcot Barton et to tins terrse snap vocat: le lampe grovmde continent : quartam 
 partem acrse cum pertinentibus turic in tenura Thomse Apletre jacent : in South 
 Newington 1 Octob: 4 Ed. VI., 1549-50. Liber B: Marise Magdalense, Oxon, 
 1611, in the possession of the President and Fellows of Mag: Coll:. 
 
 Simon Parret, or Perot, born in 1514, was the third son of Robert Parret, 
 organist of Magdalen College, and instructor of the choristers. This Robert is 
 described by Anthony Wood " as an eminent musician of an ancient and 
 knightly family of Haroldstone, in Pembrokeshire." Simon married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Edward Love, of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, Gentleman, whose 
 wife, Alice, was third daughter of William and Mary Pope, of Decldington, and 
 sister to Sir Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity College, Oxford. Simon 
 became Fellow and Bursar of Magdalen College, a Notary Public, and Steward 
 of the Manors of Lady Elizabeth Pope. He was made by Edward VI., Feb. 2, 
 Z/ lo^9, Bailiff of the Chauntry lands in the county of Oxford. 
 
 The lands alluded to in the grant above noticed are described in the original 
 deed (14A) as " formerly given for the maintenance of the lights in the churches 
 of Wescote Bartorie and South Newnton, and which he (Simon Parret) bought 
 of John Dodington, of London, Gentleman, by deed dated 17th Dec. 3, Ed. VI., 
 who had them from the Crown by letters patent dated the day previous, 
 appointing William Standish and James Massam his attorneys to give seizin." 
 
 [1 am indebted for this communication to the Rev. William Dunn Macray, 
 M.A., Chaplain of St. Mary Magdalene College, and author of the Annals of 
 the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Rivingtons, 1868.] 
 
 Owen Oglethorpe, President of Magdalen College, in the, University of Oxford, 
 in a very troublous period, was a native of Newton Kyme, in Yorkshire.* He 
 was made Bishop of Carlisle in 1556, and though much affected towards the 
 Church of Home, he did not object to put the Crown upon the head of Queen 
 Elizabeth Jan. 25, 1559.f The See of Canterbury being vacant, and the other 
 bishops refusing the duty, " Oglethorpe is said to have been haunted by remorse 
 for his compliance during the short remainder of his life."J On account of his 
 refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was deprived of his bishopric. He 
 died early in 1560. 
 
 * Camden's Britannia, London, 1695, p. 732. 
 
 t Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England, fol., Lond., 1660, p. 361. 
 
 J Mackintosh's England, vol. iii., p. 6. Lard. Cab. Cyclo.
 
 74 ^APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 No. X. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM PARTICULARS FOR GRANTS ON WHICH THE CROWN GRANTS OF 
 MONASTIC AND OTHER LANDS WERE FOUNDED. KECORDS IN THE AUG- 
 MENTATION OFFICE. 
 
 A Particular made on a request to purchase by John Ap Richards, dated 
 24th May, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, 1557, of the Rectory of Westcote Barton : 
 Oxon. Westcote Barton Rectory by the year is of the 
 
 clear yearly value of . . 7 
 
 The 10th thereof . . . . 14 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS ARGAL, Deputy Auditor. 
 
 Memorandum. The King and Queen's Majesties have no lands, rents, or 
 tenements in the said Towne of Westcote Barton. 
 
 Examined by me, JOHN THOMSON, Auditor. 
 
 With the following endorsement 
 6th July, 1557. ] The Advowson of the Parsonage of Westcote Barton, sold to 
 
 Rated for > John Coper at two years' purchase, amounted to 14. 
 John Coper. ) By me, JOHN THOMSON. 
 
 NOTE. The original grant to which this statement refers has not been 
 found ; but as John Cupper presented to the rectory on July 6th, 1566, though 
 another patron appears from the bishop's registers to have presented to the 
 rectory upon the institution of William Webb, Aug. 12, 1557, it seems that the 
 former had secured the advowson from the Crown, and by some arrangement 
 which I have not been able to discover, the first presentation after the sale was 
 allowed to the latter, who was John Raynsford, of Wyllcott. 
 
 CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 
 
 Page 2, line 5, in sandy, substitute a capital S. 
 
 4, line 18, expunge the second as. 
 
 5, 21, for at read in ; and in line 23, after Calendar, add a full point. 
 5, 24 and 25, for Manor Extent read Man er 1 Extent'. 
 
 5, 29, after Villare add Anlicanum. 
 9, 3 and 4, for chain read chains. 
 
 10, 3 and 4, for Wake Feast read Wake and Feast. 
 
 11, in note f, for h< ; ?ad the ; and for token read Men. 
 
 13, line 14, for a semicolon substitute a full point, and begin next paragraph 
 
 with a capital T ; and in note $, for xii read x. 
 15, 20, for Valer read Valor. 
 20, 16, for vicimis read vicinis. 
 45, 12, after Great Barton add Mr. Taylor purchased his share from 
 
 Mrs. James, of Finmere, the representative of Edw. and Eliz. 
 
 Hogan. (See Account of Sandford, by Rev. E. Marshall, p. 
 
 22 and Addenda.) 
 
 LONDON : 
 S. AXI> J. HUAWX. PRINTERS, 13, PRINCKS STI:KKT. LITTI.F: QTKKS STIIF.KT. He
 
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