|
|
a. |
acre (s) |
|
Abbrev. Rot. Orig. |
Rotulorum Originalium Abbreviatio, temp. Hen. III, Edw. I (Record Commission,
1805) |
|
Acts of PC
|
Acts of the Privy Council of England (HMSO, 1890–1964) |
|
Acts of PC (Rec. Com.) |
Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, 1386–1542 (Record
Commission, 1834–7) |
|
Allen, Mount House
|
T.G. Allen with J. Hiller, Excavation of a Medieval Manor House of the Bishops of
Winchester at Mount House, Witney (Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No.
13, Oxford, 2002) |
|
Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; |
Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714; 1715–1886, ed. J. Foster (Oxford, 1888–92) |
|
archaeol. |
archaeology, archaeological |
|
Archaeol. Jnl
|
Archaeological Journal
|
|
archit. |
architecture, architectural |
|
BL |
British Library |
|
BNC Mun. |
Muniments of Brasenose College, Oxford |
|
Bampton Hund. R. |
Oxfordshire Hundred Rolls of 1279 (Bampton Hundred, Witney Borough), ed. E.
Stone, P. Hyde (ORS 46) |
|
Besse, Sufferings
|
J. Besse, A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, from 1650 to
1689 (London, 1753) |
|
bdy; bdies |
boundary; boundaries |
|
Blair, A-S Oxon. |
J. Blair, Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire (1994) |
|
Book of Fees
|
The Book of Fees (HMSO, 1920–31) |
|
Blenheim Mun. |
Muniments of the duke of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxon. |
|
bldg (s) |
building (s) |
|
Bodl. |
Bodleian Library |
|
bp |
bishop |
|
Bp Fell and Nonconf. |
Bishop Fell and Nonconformity: Visitation Documents, 1682–3, ed. Mary
Clapinson (ORS 52) |
|
Brewer, Oxon. |
J. N. Brewer, A topographical and historic description of the county of Oxford
(London, 1819) |
|
Brit. |
British |
|
Burke's Peerage; Extinct Baronetcies; Landed Gentry
|
J. Burke and others, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage,
Baronetage and Knightage; A History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies; A
Dictionary of the Landed Gentry
|
|
CE Rec. Centre |
Church of England Record Centre, South Bermondsey, London |
|
CBA Group 9 |
Council for British Archaeology, Regional Group 9 |
|
CCC Mun. |
Muniments of Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
|
CJ |
Journals of the House of Commons
|
|
COS, OPA; PRN; SMR |
Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Central Library, Westgate, Oxford, Oxfordshire:
Photographic Archive; Primary Record Number (in SMR); Sites and Monuments Record |
|
Cal. Chart. |
Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO,
1903–27) |
|
Cal. Close
|
Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO,
1892–1963) |
|
Cal. Cttee for Compounding
|
Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, etc. (HMSO,
1889–92) |
|
Cal. Cttee for Money
|
Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money, 1642–56
(HMSO, 1888) |
|
Cal. Fine
|
Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1911–62) |
|
Cal. Inq. Misc. |
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record
Office (HMSO, 1916–68) |
|
Cal. Inq. p.m. |
Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO,
1904–87) |
|
Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII
|
Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII (HMSO, 1898–1955) |
|
Cal. Lib. |
Calendar of the Liberate Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO,
1917–64) |
|
Cal. Papal Regs. |
Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters (HMSO, and Irish MSS Com.
1893–1986) |
|
Cal. Pat. |
Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Office (HMSO, 1891–1986) |
|
Cal. QS |
Calendar of quarter sessions records in Oxfordshire Record Office by W.J.
Oldfield |
|
Cal. SP Dom. |
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series (HMSO, 1856–1972) |
|
Camd., Camden Soc. |
Camden Series, Camden Society |
|
Cant. & York Soc. |
Canterbury and York Society |
|
Cat. |
Catalogue |
|
Cat. Ancient Deeds
|
Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (HMSO,
1890–1915) |
|
Cath. Rec. Soc. |
Catholic Record Society |
|
Ch. and Chapel, 1851 |
Church and Chapel in Oxfordshire, 1851. The Return of the Census of Religious
Worship, ed. Kate Tiller (ORS 55) |
|
Ch. Bells Oxon. |
F. Sharpe, The Church Bells of Oxfordshire (ORS 28, 30, 32, 34) |
|
Ch. Ch. Mun. |
Muniments of Christ Church, Oxford |
|
Chant. Cert. |
Chantry Certificates and Edwardian Inventories of Church Goods, ed. Rose
Graham (ORS 1) |
|
Char. Com. |
Charity Commission |
|
Char. Don. |
Abstract of Returns relative to Charitable Donations for the Benefit of Poor Persons
(Parl. Papers 1816 (511), xvi) |
|
Close
|
Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO,
1902–15) |
|
Complete Baronetage
|
G.E. C[okayne], Complete Baronetage (Exeter, 1900–9) |
|
Complete Peerage
|
G.E. C[okayne] and others, The Complete Peerage (2nd edn, 1910–59) |
|
Compton Census, ed. Whiteman |
The Compton Census of 1676, ed. A. Whiteman (Records of Social and Economic
History, n.s. x) |
|
Crockford |
Crockford's Clerical Directory
|
|
cttee |
committee |
|
Cur. Reg. |
Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1922–79) |
|
DNB
|
Dictionary of National Biography
|
|
Davis, Oxon. Map (1797) |
R. Davis, A New Map of the County of Oxford (1797) |
|
Dep. Kpr's Rep. |
Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (1840–1958) |
|
Deserted Villages of Oxon. |
K.J. Allison, M.W. Beresford, and J.G. Hurst, Deserted Villages of Oxfordshire
(Leicester Univ. Dept of English Local History, Occasional Papers, no. 17) |
|
Dict. |
Dictionary |
|
Dir. |
Directory
|
|
DoE, Revised Hist. Bldgs List
|
Department of Environment, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic
Interest: copies in COS |
|
Dugdale, Mon. |
W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley and others (1817–30) |
|
EETS |
Early English Text Society |
|
EHR
|
English Historical Review
|
|
EPNS |
English Place-Name Society |
|
Educ. of Poor Digest
|
Digest of Returns to the Select Committee on the Education of the Poor (Parl. Papers
1819 (224), ix B) |
|
Emden, OU Reg. to 1500 |
A.B. Emden, Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to AD 1500 (Oxford,
1957–9) |
|
Emden, OU Reg. 1501–40 |
A. B. Emden, Biographical Register of the University of Oxford AD 1501 to 1540
(Oxford, 1974) |
|
Eng. |
England |
|
Evans, Ch. Plate
|
J.T. Evans, Church Plate of Oxfordshire (Oxford, 1928) |
|
Excerpta e Rot. Finium
|
Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, Hen. III (Record Commission, 1835–6) |
|
Eynsham Cart. |
Cartulary of Eynsham Abbey, ed. H.E. Salter (OHS 49, 51) |
|
Farrer, Honors
|
W. Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees (3 vols, London, 1923–5) |
|
Feudal Aids
|
Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids preserved in the Public Record
Office (HMSO, 1899–1920) |
|
Gent. Mag. |
Gentleman's Magazine
|
|
Geol. Surv. |
Geological Survey |
|
Giles, Hist. Witney
|
J.A. Giles, History of Witney, with Notices of the Neighbouring Parishes and
Hamlets (London, 1852) |
|
Glasscock, Subsidy 1334 |
R.E. Glasscock, The Lay Subsidy of 1334 (Oxford, 1975) |
|
Godson, Witney Map (1814–16) |
S. Godson, Plan of the Manor of Witney 1814–16: copy in Bodl. (R) MS C 17:49
(276); with accompanying surveys in Blenheim Mun., E/P/30 and E/P/31 |
|
Grundy, Saxon Oxon. |
G. B. Grundy, Saxon Oxfordshire (ORS 15) |
|
HC |
House of Commons |
|
HL |
House of Lords |
|
HMC |
Historical Manuscripts Commission, since 2003 part of the National Archives |
|
HMSO |
Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office |
|
ha. |
hectare (s) |
|
Harl. Soc. |
Harleian Society |
|
Hearth Tax Oxon. |
Hearth Tax Returns for Oxfordshire, 1665, ed. Maureen Weinstock (ORS 21) |
|
Hodgson, QAB
|
C. Hodgson, Account of the Augmentation of Small Livings by the Governors of the
Bounty of Queen Anne (2nd edn, London, 1845) |
|
Hyde, 'Winchester Manors' |
P. Hyde, 'Winchester Manors at Witney and Adderbury, Oxfordshire, in the later
Middle Ages' (Oxford University B Litt thesis, 1954) |
|
incl. |
inclosure |
|
inv. |
inventory |
|
Jefferys, Oxon. Map (1767) |
T. Jefferys, The County of Oxford (1767) |
|
Jnl Royal Agric. Soc. |
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society
|
|
L&I Soc. |
List and Index Society |
|
L&P Hen. VIII
|
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (HMSO,
1864–1932) |
|
LJ
|
Journals of the House of Lords
|
|
LRS |
Lincoln Record Society |
|
Land Util. Surv. |
Reports of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain: pt 56, Oxfordshire, by Mary
Marshall (1943) |
|
Leland, Itin. (ed. Toulmin Smith) |
Itinerary of John Leland, ed. L. Toulmin Smith (1906–10) |
|
Lewis, Topog. Dict. Eng. (1840) |
S. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of England (1840) |
|
Lond. Gaz. |
London Gazette
|
|
Lunt (ed.), Val. Norw. |
Valuation of Norwich, ed. W.E. Lunt (Oxford 1926) |
|
Magd. Coll. Mun. |
Muniments of Magdalen College, Oxford |
|
Milne, Oxon. Tokens
|
J.G. Milne (ed.), Catalogue of Oxfordshire Seventeenth-Century Tokens (Oxford,
1935) |
|
Misc. Gen. et Her. |
Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, ed. J. J. Howard and W.B. Bannerman
(London, 1868–1938) |
|
mkt (s) |
market (s) |
|
mon. |
monument(s) |
|
Monk, Hist. Witney
|
W. J. Monk, History of Witney (Witney, 1894) |
|
New Coll. Arch. |
Archives of New College, Oxford |
|
Nonarum Inquisitiones
|
Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scaccarii (Record Commission, 1807) |
|
N & Q
|
Notes and Queries
|
|
NMR |
English Heritage, National Monuments Record, Swindon |
|
NRA |
National Register of Archives |
|
nonconf. |
nonconformity |
|
OAHS Proc. |
Proceedings of the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, 1839–59; and of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society,
1860–1900 |
|
OAS Rep. |
Reports and Transactions of the North Oxfordshire Archaeological Society,
1853–86, and of the Oxford Archaeological Society 1887–1949 |
|
OHS |
Oxford Historical Society |
|
ORCC |
Oxfordshire Rural Community Council |
|
ORO |
Oxfordshire County Record Office |
|
ORS |
Oxfordshire Record Society |
|
OS |
Ordnance Survey |
|
Oldfield, 'Clerus Oxf. Dioc.' |
MS index to clergy of Oxford diocese by W. J. Oldfield in Oxfordshire Record
Office |
|
Oldham, 'Vestry Book' |
C. R. Oldham, 'The Witney Vestry Book 1793–1823; a Study of the Old Poor
Law in Oxfordshire' (unpublished typescript, 1931): copy in COS |
|
Orr, Oxon. Agric. |
J. Orr, Agriculture in Oxfordshire (Oxford, 1916) |
|
Oseney Cart. |
Cartulary of Oseney Abbey, ed. H. E. Salter (OHS 89–91, 98, 105) |
|
Oxf. Chron. |
Oxford Chronicle
|
|
Oxf. Dioc. Yr Bk
|
Oxford Diocesan Year Book (Oxford, 1858–) |
|
Oxf. Jnl
|
Jackson's Oxford Journal
|
|
Oxf. Jnl Synopsis |
'Chronological Synopsis and Index to Oxon. Items in Jackson's Oxford Journal
1753–80', ed. E. C. Davies; '1781–90', ed. E. H. Cordeaux (Typescripts 1967,
1976: copies in Central Library, Westgate, Oxford and the Bodleian Library) |
|
Oxon. Fines
|
Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire, 1195–1291, ed. H. E. Salter (ORS 12) |
|
Oxon. Poll, 1754 |
The Poll of the Freeholders of Oxford, taken at Oxford on 17–23 April 1754 |
|
Oxon. Visit. |
Visitations of Oxfordshire in 1566, 1574, and 1634, ed. W. H. Turner (Harl. Soc. 5) |
|
Oxon. Wills
|
Some Oxfordshire Wills, ed. J. R. H. Weaver and A. Beardwood (ORS 39) |
|
PN Oxon. (EPNS) |
Margaret Gelling, Place-Names of Oxfordshire (English Place-Name Soc. 23–4,
1953–4) |
|
PO Arch. |
Post Office archives at Mount Pleasant, London |
|
PRO |
former Public Record Office, since 2003 part of the National Archives |
|
PRS |
Pipe Roll Society |
|
par. |
parish; parochial |
|
Par. Colln
|
Parochial Collections by Anthony Wood and Richard Rawlinson, ed. F. N. Davis
(ORS 2, 4, 11) |
|
Pat. |
Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO,
1900–3) |
|
Pevsner, Oxon. |
Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: Oxfordshire
(Harmondsworth, 1974) |
|
Pipe R
|
Pipe Roll
|
|
Plac. de Quo Warr. |
Placita de Quo Warranto (Record Commission, 1818) |
|
Placit. in Domo Capit. Abbrev. |
Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbreviatio
(Record Commission, 1811) |
|
Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers
|
A. Plummer and R. E. Early, The Blanket Makers 1669–1969: a History of Charles
Early & Marriott (Witney) Ltd. (London, 1969) |
|
Plummer, Witney Blanket Ind. |
A. Plummer, The Witney Blanket Industry: the Records of the Witney Blanket
Weavers (London, 1934) |
|
Poll Taxes 1377–81, ed. Fenwick |
Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, pt. 2: Lincs.-Westmorland, ed. C. C. Fenwick
(British Academy Records in Social and Economic Hist. n.s. 29, 2001) |
|
Poor Abstract, 1777; 1787 |
Reports of Select Committees on Poor Laws, 1775–7 and 1787 (Parl. Papers, HC
Series 1, vol. ix) |
|
Poor Abstract, 1804; 1818 |
Abstract of Answers and Returns relative to the Expense and Maintenance of the
Poor (Parl. Papers 1804 (175), i; 1818 (82), xix) |
|
Prob. Recs. Oxon. 1516–1732 |
Probate Records of the Courts of the Bishop and Archdeacon of Oxford 1516–1732,
ed. E. Cheyne and D. M. Barratt (British Rec. Soc. 93–4, 1981–85) |
|
Prob. Recs. Oxon. 1733–1857 |
Index to the Probate Records of the Courts of the Bishop and Archdeacon of Oxford
1733–1857, ed. D. M. Barratt, J. Howard-Drake, and M. Priddey (ORS 61, 1997) |
|
Protestation Rtns and Tax Assess. |
Oxfordshire and North Berkshire Protestation Returns and Tax Assessments
1641–2, ed. J. Gibson (ORS 59) |
|
Queen's Coll. Mun. |
Muniments of the Queen's College, Oxford |
|
RCHM |
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England |
|
RO |
Record Office |
|
RS |
Rolls Series |
|
Rec. Com. |
Record Commission |
|
Rec. Witney
|
Record of Witney (the Newsletter of the Witney and District Hist. and Archaeol.
Soc.): copies in COS |
|
Red Book Exch. (RS) |
Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. H. Hall (Rolls Series, 1896) |
|
Reg. Regum Anglo-Norm. |
Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066–1154, ed. H. W. C. Davies and others
(1913–69) |
|
Rep. Com. Char. |
Reports of the Commissioners for Charities (1819–40), indexed in Parl. Papers
1840 (279), xix (2) |
|
Rodwell, Hist. Towns Oxon. |
K. Rodwell (ed.), Historic Towns in Oxfordshire (Oxford, 1975) |
|
Rot. Chart. |
Rotuli Chartarum, 1199–1216 (Record Commission, 1837) |
|
Rot. Cur. Reg. |
Rotuli Curiae Regis, 6 Richard I to 1 John (Record Commission, 1812–18) |
|
Rot. de Oblatis et Finibus
|
Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus (Record Commission, 1835) |
|
Rot. Hund. |
Rotuli Hundredorum temp. Hen. III & Edw. I (Record Commission, 1812–18) |
|
Rot. Lib. |
Rotuli de Liberate, regnante Johanne (Record Commission, 1844) |
|
Rot. Litt. Claus. |
Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum, 1204–27 (Record Commission, 1833–44) |
|
Rot. Litt. Pat. |
Rotuli Litterarum Patentium, 1201–16 (Record Commission, 1835) |
|
Rot. Parl. |
Rotuli Parliamentorum [1783] |
|
s.a. |
sub anno (under the year) |
|
SMR |
Oxfordshire Sites and Monuments Record, located in COS |
|
Sanders, Eng. Baronies
|
I. J. Sanders, English Baronies, 1086–1327 (Oxford, 1960) |
|
sch. |
school |
|
Secker's Corresp. |
The Correspondence of Thomas Secker, bishop of Oxford 1737–58, ed. A. P. Jenkins
(ORS 57) |
|
Secker's Visit. |
Articles of Enquiry at the Primary Visitation of Dr Thomas Secker, 1738, ed. H. A.
Lloyd Jukes (ORS 38) |
|
ser. |
series |
|
Schumer, Wychwood (1984 edn; 1999 edn) |
The Evolution of Wychwood to 1400: Pioneers, Frontiers and Forests (University of
Leicester, Department of English Local History Occasional Papers 6, 1984;
revised edn Wychwood Press, 1999) |
|
Skelton, Antiq. Oxon. |
J. Skelton, Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire (Oxford, 1823) |
|
Smith, 'Reminiscences' |
William Smith, 'Reminiscences of Witney' (TS transcript (1972) of MS dated 14
Nov. 1872): copy in COS, 920 SMIT |
|
sqq |
and pages (or folios) following |
|
Subsidy 1526 |
Subsidy Collected in the Diocese of Lincoln in 1526, ed. H. E. Salter (OHS 63) |
|
Tax. Eccl. |
Taxatio Ecclesiastica Anglie et Wallie . . . circa AD 1291 (Record Commission,
1801) |
|
Trans. |
Transactions
|
|
Univ. Brit. Dir. |
Universal British Directory of Trade and Commerce (London, 1790–[1798]) |
|
Univ. Coll. Arch. |
Archives of University College, Oxford |
|
VCH
|
Victoria County History
|
|
Valor Eccl. |
Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII (Record Commission, 1810–34) |
|
Visit. Dioc. Linc. |
Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517–31, ed. A. Hamilton Thompson (LRS
33, 35, 37) |
|
Wilb. Letter Bks
|
The Letter Books of Samuel Wilberforce 1843–68, ed. R. K. Pugh (ORS 47) |
|
Wilb. Visit. |
Bishop Wilberforce's Visitation Returns, 1854, ed. E. P. Baker (ORS 35) |
|
Winch. PR 1208–9, ed. Hall |
Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1208–9, ed. H. Hall (London, 1903) |
|
Winch. PR 1210–11, ed. Holt |
Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1210–11, ed. N. R. Holt (Manchester,
1964) |
|
Winch. PR 1301–2, ed. Page |
Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1301–2, ed. M. Page (Hants Rec. Ser. 14,
1996) |
|
Winch. PR 1409–10, ed. Page |
Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester, 1409–10, ed. M. Page (Hants Rec. Ser. 16,
1999) |
|
Witney Ct. Bks
|
Calendar of the Court Books of the Borough of Witney 1538–1610, ed. J. L. Bolton
and Marjorie M. Maslen (ORS 54) |
|
Witney Methodist Ch. deeds |
Deeds of Witney Methodist Church, 1652–1982, consulted by kind permission
of the minister (1995) |
|
'Witney Par. Diary' |
Witney Parish Diary from 1864, in possession of the incumbent; consulted by
kind permission of Canon R. E. Meredith |
|
Wood's Life
|
The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford 1632–95, ed. A. Clark
(OHS 19, 21, 26, 30, 40) |
|
Young, Oxon. Agric. |
A. Young, General View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire (London, 1813) |
