A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1996.
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A P Baggs, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn, S C Townley, 'Shifford: Charities for the poor', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One), ed. Alan Crossley, C R J Currie( London, 1996), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol13/p110b [accessed 4 July 2024].
A P Baggs, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn, S C Townley, 'Shifford: Charities for the poor', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One). Edited by Alan Crossley, C R J Currie( London, 1996), British History Online, accessed July 4, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol13/p110b.
A P Baggs, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn, S C Townley. "Shifford: Charities for the poor". A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 13, Bampton Hundred (Part One). Ed. Alan Crossley, C R J Currie(London, 1996), , British History Online. Web. 4 July 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol13/p110b.
CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.
Robert Veysey, by will proved 1666, left £10 for a yearly dole to 8 poor of Shifford and Chimney. (fn. 1) William Farr of Brighthampton, by will proved 1691, left £5 at interest to the poor of Shifford, (fn. 2) and Thomas Horde, by will proved 1716, gave a £6 rent charge and £10 for apprenticing 2 boys or girls. (fn. 3) All were lost by 1787. (fn. 4) A bequest by E. W. Harcourt (d. 1891) to Shifford chapelry was divided in 1892 between Old and New Shifford (£12), Chimney (£2), and Brighthampton (£11). (fn. 5)