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CKOWTHORNE.

BEKKSH1KE.

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LoTick Charles k Son, m otor o a ra g e ,. ^Readings Charles fc Son, hauliers. W arner Thom as, draper, see Potts &
W okingham New road
W arner
H igh street
C row thorne inn. R itchin gs E m ily (M rs.), apartm ents, W atkins H enry H arris, boot m aker,
L o vick
Charles,
Duke's ride
Fernshawe, P in eh ill road
H igh street
(M rs.),
fancy W ellington C ollege (W . W . V augh an
M artin W illiam
Thom as, butcher. Satch el! F rederick
repository, San dh u rst road
M .A. head m aster)
C h u rch street
W ashington, hair J tS la tte r A lice (M rs.), apartm ents, W heatley Annetta (M iss), china &
Mason C harles
Th e Sh rubbery, Ravenscourt aven
glass dealer
dresser, H igh street
*+Morris A nnie (M iss), apartm ents, Sm ith Am os Edwd. shpkpr. H igh st W heatley Thos, upholsterer, H igh st
Sm ithers E lizabeth (M rs.), dress ♦Whitaker Thom as Jam es, coal dir.
l'ralee, Ravenswood avenue
m aker, H igh street
Morrison G eorge, dairym an, H igh st
E llis road
tS o ciety for P rom otin g C hristian W ilkinson W illiam , cycle agt. H igh st
Newm an W illiam , saddler, H igh st
K nowledge Depot (Thom as H unt), J+W illm ott Henry Ross, apartm en ts,
N ightingale W m . cloth ier, C h u rch st
Pinewood cottage, Ravenswood av
Duke's ride
N u rses’ Home (Miss Farrow , lady
Spear & K in g , builders, K in g ’s road W rig h t W illiam John,m anager B arclay
superintendent), D uke’s ride
& Com pany L im ited, Bank, Duke's
O ver H arry,grocer & sub-postm aster, Stokes E lizabeth Sarah (M rs.)»tobac­
conist, H igh street
H igh street
ride
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tfo
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Ernest
P
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M
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.,
Youlden
John G eorge, carpenter,
♦Phillips E rn est H erbert, insurance
L .R .C .P .L o n d . physician & surgn.
agent, A nchorage, Pinewood aven
H igh street
The
M
oorings,
D
uke's
ride
Youlden K ate(M rs.),sh op k p r H igh s t
♦Phillips F dk.T .d airym n .O aklan ds fm
Pitn ey Leonard, saddler, C h urch st Sworder W alter Jsph. fru itr. H igh st Youlden Sam uel Jam es, insurance
agent, B utterford, C hurch road
Potts & W arner, drapers, C hurch Talm age E dgar, butcher, H igh street
Thomas P. E van , land & estate agent
street & H igh street
Powell & C arr, boys’ school, Crow- j Townsend S id,cycle Tepairer, H igh st
OW LSM OOR.
thom e Towers
V augh an A lbert & Son ,tailors,H igh st
tt t John,
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............. tr dealer,
„, 1 K in g ’ s Td
Prior Charles H enry, hair dresser, | Vian
general
(L etters th rou gh Cam ber y )
C hurch street
W alls G eorge,
builder, G le n d a le ,: Bullock F rederick W illiam , baker
♦Prouten F rank, nurserym an, Old j
Sandhurst road
Drew Fredk. Hy. beer ret. & grocer
W okingham road
’
! (W ard Geo. Sidnev.confr. Duke's ride Godwin Edward, shopkeeper
♦Prouten John, shpkpr. Pinewood av I
I Opperman G eorge, cabinet m aker
C T J L H A M is a p arish p a rtly in th is county b ut p rin cip ally in O xfordshire ; particulars are given in K elly s
Directory of the la tte r county.
C U M N O I t is a la rge p arish and villag e on the road I Sunday sch ool; Mr. H. H all, the yearly interest of
from Abingdon to W itney, bounded on the w est by the j ¿10 0 , to be divided am ongst four industrious persons
river Isis, which separates it from O xfordshire, 4^ m iles I not receivin g parish r e lie f ; M rs. M. Peacock, the innorth from A bingdon and is 3^ w est from Oxford, which I terest of ^500, £ 3 of w hich towards the school and £ 1 2
is the nearest railw ay station, in the Northern division | to be divided am ongst three poor widows who are not
of th e county, hundred of H orm er, p etty sessional divi­ I 011 the parish ; Mr. W . Slatter, the interest of ^100, to
sion, union and county court district of Abingdon, and I be divided between the school of this parish and the
in the rural deanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of B erks I Blue C oat School at Oxford. The poor’s land of 7
The
and diocese of Oxford. Th e church of St. M ichael is an ' acres and three cottages produce £22 yearly.
edifice of stone, generally in the Transitional Norman j manor belonged at a very early period to the abbot and
convent
of
Abingdon,
b
y
whom
the
m
anor
house
was
style, w ith insertions and additions of a century later, I
and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, a chappl at II used as a country seat and b uilt as a sanatorium r in
i
1562
it
was
purchased
by
Anthony
Forster,
during
the east end of the south aisle, which served as a 1
m ortuary chapel for th e abbey of Abingdon, north porch I whose occupancy the trag ic event so v ivid ly told in the
and a battlem ented western tower containing a clock and j: pages of “ K enilw orth,” is said to have o c cu rred : A m y,
6 b e lls ; the w est doorway is Norm an and the tower ji the young and beautifu l daugh ter and heiress of S ir
arch a fine exam ple of T ransitional w ork : against the I! John Robsart kt. of Norfolk, was m arried June 4, 1550.
north w all of the chancel is the rich canopied altar- to Lord Robert D udley (afterw ards E arl of Leicester),
tomb of A nthony Forster, c. 1572. and whose epitaph , of in the presence of Edward VI. at Sheen Court, Surrey,
32 verses, speaks h igh ly of him as being am iable and being then only 18 years of age ; on th e 8th of Sept.
acco m p lish ed ; th e tom b has at the back brasses of 1560, w hile stayin g at Forster’s house at Cum nor, she
him self in arm our, and his w ife Ann (W illiam s), w ith m et w ith her death at the m urderous hands of her host
several children and shields of a r m s : there are otheT and his accom plice. S ir Richard V a rn ey ; the la tter died
brasses to C atherine (W illiam s), w ife of Henry Staver- a m iserable death in L o n d o n : Forster, offering to
ton, gent. 15 7 7 ; and to Deodatus Staverton, and his d ivulge th e particulars of the deed, was strangled in
wife E dith (W illiam s), c. 1580; there is also a m em orial prison by D udley’s order, and the E arl him self died, 4
to Benjam in B uck ler D.D. som etim e fellow of A ll Souls Sept. 1588, at Cornbury Manor House in Oxfordshire,
College. Oxford, vicar here and Tector of Frilsham , 1755- when his titles becam e extin ct, his son. Sir Robert
80; he was editor of the “ Stem m ata Chicheleiana ” Dudley, by his second wife, having failed to establish
and k e e p e T of the u n iversity archives at Oxford, and was his le g itim a c y ; the rem ains of the hapless la d y were
buried here 24th Dec. 1780 : in the church is preserved brought from Cum nor to G loucester H all (now W orcester
a v ery fine exam ple of a chained Bible, dated i6 r i, and College, O xford), and thence taken, w ith great solem nity,
said to have been used b y the Oxford U niversity Press in to S t. M ary’ s church, and there interred, the funeral
1832-3 for producing an exact reprint of the authorised being attended by th e U niversity and C ity authorities,
v ersio n : a lis t of vicars, in the church, commences in the officers of the H eralds’ College, and m any others,
1314, and has been continued to the present tim e : there as described in the Dugdale M S. in the Brit. Mus. ; in
is also a full-len gth statue in Caen stone of Queen E liza ­ 1874, the late V ery Rev. John W illiam Burgon B D.
beth, crowned, and b earing the orb and sceptre, said to late Dean of C hichester, and then vicar of St. M ary's,
have been erected by th e E a rl of Leicester, in the g ar­ caused the follow ing inscription to be placed on the
“ In a vau lt
of brick, at the upper end of
dens of Old Cum nor Place : a handsom e m em orial has altar step s:
was buried Am y Robsart, w ife of Lord
been erected to th e late S ir W illiam W ilson H unter this quire,
Robert
D
udley
K
.G
.
Sunday,
22
Septem
ber, 156 0 :” the
K .C .S .I ., C .L E . who died February 7th, 1900, aged 59:
th e church affords 300 sittings. T h e reg isters all date old H all, pulled down in 1810, was a quadrangular
from 1559. T h e liv in g is a vicarage, n et yearly value building, w ith good Decorated windows and d oo rs: some
¿2 50 , including 25 acres of glebe, w ith residence, in of the windows, w ith th eir stained glass, were Temoved
the g ift of the tru stee of the E arl of Abingdon, and to W yth am A bbey, the prop erty of the E arl of A bin g­
are now on
the south side of the church
held since 1903 by the Rev. A rth u r D u dley Wilkinson don ; others
and one of the doors, w ith the inscription
M .A. of M agdalene C ollege, Cam bridge. T h ere is a Con­ at W ytham ,
“
IA
N
V
A
VITJE
VERBUM
DOM
INI
”
above it, is in the
gregational chapel, b u ilt in 1895, w ith 200 sittings. The
Rev. Dr. B u ckler le ft ^100 (of which the present interest wall surrounding W ytham churchyard. The villag e inn,
a
picturesque
old-fashioned
hostelry,
is
still “ The Bear
is £ 7 17s. 4d.) to be expended in th e purchase of Bibles
Oaken H olt, th e residence of
and P ra yer Books for the poor; the Rev. John S latter, and R agged S taff.”
i 10s. yea rly for th e p oor; M r. W illiam Sellwood, Charles John Ross esq. stands on a wooded em inence
4 n s . annually for the parishes of Besselsleigh and and com m ands an extensive view of th e upper valley
Cum nor alternately, to be laid out in the purchase of of th e Tham es and four surrounding counties. Th e
foul-w eather jackets ; Mr. G . Noble le ft two £ 5 notes to E arl of Abingdon is lord of the m anor and chief owner
be lent to poor persons, one at a tim e, and to be repaid of the la n d ; S t. John’s C ollege and M erton College,
at the rate of 10 groats per q u a rte r; Mr. C arey G odfrey, Oxford, are also landowners. The soil is various, con­
the interest of ¿ 10 0 , to be laid out in rew ards for the sistin g of stone brash, sand and loam ; the subsoil is