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... court at Oxford , as at York , Lincoln , and London , seems to imply a Danish element in the popu- lation , as does the name of an old church , Danesbourn , near one of the cross streams below South Gate ; while the mention of some ...
... court at Oxford , as at York , Lincoln , and London , seems to imply a Danish element in the popu- lation , as does the name of an old church , Danesbourn , near one of the cross streams below South Gate ; while the mention of some ...
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... courts held in the city - in fact , the chief men of the county had their town mansions . The total population can hardly have reached one thousand , and this tells us how much Oxford had suffered . Before the Conquest it was already a ...
... courts held in the city - in fact , the chief men of the county had their town mansions . The total population can hardly have reached one thousand , and this tells us how much Oxford had suffered . Before the Conquest it was already a ...
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... court was held in 1111 to settle a dispute about the annual payment of one hundred herrings due from every Oxford boat that used the new channel of the Thames , cut by Ordric , abbot of Abingdon , about 1060 ; when ' pleadings ...
... court was held in 1111 to settle a dispute about the annual payment of one hundred herrings due from every Oxford boat that used the new channel of the Thames , cut by Ordric , abbot of Abingdon , about 1060 ; when ' pleadings ...
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... court ; to the north of it , on a lofty mound , rose the great keep ; to the west , the one tower which remains , the tower of St. George , looked down on the river and the mill . Without the walls of the fortress lay the Bailly , a ...
... court ; to the north of it , on a lofty mound , rose the great keep ; to the west , the one tower which remains , the tower of St. George , looked down on the river and the mill . Without the walls of the fortress lay the Bailly , a ...
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... court at Woodstock with his son Henry . In 1177 the Welsh princes came hither to do homage , and Henry named his son John king of Ireland , and parted that country among the barons who had joined in the adventure of the conquest . But ...
... court at Woodstock with his son Henry . In 1177 the Welsh princes came hither to do homage , and Henry named his son John king of Ireland , and parted that country among the barons who had joined in the adventure of the conquest . But ...
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