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The range which forms the north-west front is 17th-century, probably rebuilt by Thomas Wyatt, rector 1610-52, much altered internally in the earlier 18th century, and achieving its present form in the rebuilding of c. 1800, Behind it the two staircase halls and the rooms on the south-east are probably early 19th-century, incorporating older walls around the staircases. Later, probably in 1870-1, they were extensively remodelled and a south-west porch added. The north-east service wing, incorporating a carriage house and loose box, is work of c. 1800, although the vaulted half-cellars may be earlier.
The wealth of the living is reflected by Pereson's acquisition in 1501 of a pension of £10 for life from his successor at Ducklington, another pluralist. (fn. 67) In the 1520s the non-resident rector paid curates, (fn. 68) and Sir Thomas More's presentee in 1533, William Leson, Chancery master and considerable pluralist, was probably also nonresident. (fn. 69) In 1552 his successor, William Wright, archdeacon of Oxford and vicar of Bampton, (fn. 70) let the rectory house for 30 years, (fn. 71) presumably encouraging further non-residence.
The church of ST. BARTHOLOMEW, (fn. 96) built of rubble with ashlar dressings, comprises chancel, aisled nave, west tower, and north and south porches. There is a late 12th-century south arcade, of which the plain, single-chamfered western arch was presumably the earliest part. Flat buttresses supporting the west wall on each side of the later tower probably indicate the length and width of the nave c. 1200. In the early to mid 13th century the long, narrow chancel was built and a tower, of which the entrance arch from the nave survives, was added at the west end. The late 12th-century south aisle was probably narrower than the surviving aisle, of which the scale and fenestration indicate rebuilding in the later 13th century. (fn. 97) The small, plain south doorway is probably also of that date.
In the earlier 14th century a large window with geometrical tracery was inserted in the south wall of the chancel, and later, perhaps c. 1340, the chancel arch was rebuilt and a north arcade and lavish north aisle added or rebuilt. The work was distinctive, with tall, sharply pointed windows containing flowing tracery similar to work at Cogges and in the north transept at Witney; the aisle buttresses, with pack-saddle heads and ogee-headed niches, also have close parallels at Witney. Features such as the continuous exterior string course suggest that aisle and buttresses were of one build, an impression confirmed by examination of the footings in 1994. (fn. 98) The con- tinuation of the string course inside the north porch makes it unlikely that a porch formed part of the original design, (fn. 99) while the elaborate treatment of the north doorway suggests that it was by then the principal entrance to the church.
The interior of the aisle (fn. 100) is united by a stringcourse with ballflower running round the wall plate on the north and south sides and forming the window hoods on the east and west. The arcade piers are decorated with crowned heads, possibly of Edward III and Philippa, and coiled serpents, of which that on the east was added or recarved in 1873. (fn. 101) Apparently out of keeping with the high quality of much of the work is the setting of the windows, which have wide, flat splays below the level of the rear arches. Suggestions that the splays were retained from an earlier, presumably 13th-century, aisle (fn. 102) may be discounted on the ground of style and scale. The splays, in existence by the early 19th century, may have been cut to provide more light when galleries were added, but it seems unlikely that galleries occupied the length of the aisle. One possibility, though implying unusual ambition for a village church, is that the jambs formed part of the 14th-century design, and were prepared for niches or other decorations which were never completed.
The east end of the north aisle, heavily decorated with carved masonry, has the appearance of a private chapel and it has been suggested that the aisle's donors, probably members of the manorial family, the Dives, were entombed there in the surviving recesses in the north wall. (fn. 103) The recesses have cusped, ogee-headed arches decorated with carved heads and foliage arranged along a branching vine which, though incomplete, evidently issued from the reclining figure of Jesse in the central spandrel; the composition is set in a rectangular frame of plain roll moulding. The western recess contains a medieval grave slab, and a similar slab lies in the churchyard near the north aisle; both were once decorated with a raised floriated cross, and in 1805 an axe was visible on the slab in the recess. (fn. 104) The slabs, however, probably had no original connexion with the recesses, which they appear to pre-date. Other signs of later alteration include the clumsy setting of some parts into the frame, and the absence of a plinth. The craftmanship of the composition, though vigorous, is inferior to that of the aisle and its location across the lower part of an original window suggests that it was not a memorial to the aisle's founders. Even so most of the masonry is of the 14th century and the frame, in parts at least, is integral with the carving of the arches; a comparably framed 14th-century double recess, complete with effigies, survives in the north transept at Witney. (fn. 105) The Ducklington recesses are probably the remains of a sepulchral monument of the 14th century, although much altered and possibly wholly reset.
The chapel of ST. MARY was probably dedicated originally to St. Michael, whose feast day was still observed as Hardwick's wake in the 19th century. (fn. 175) By 1365 the dedication was to St. Mary, and in the 16th century, reflecting the importance there of the cult of the Virgin, the chapel was called Our Lady of Cokethorpe. (fn. 176) In the 18th century a dedication feast on 22 July was noted, indicating (if not an error) a postReformation change of invocation to St. Mary Magdalen which had been reversed by the 19th century. (fn. 177) The building comprises chancel, nave, north aisle, and north-west tower. (fn. 178) The older masonry is of coursed limestone rubble, additions made in 1873-4 are of dressed stone, and the roof is of 20th-century tiles. The earliest dateable features include a reset plain 12th- century tympanum inside the south doorway, (fn. 179) a notable 12th-century font, and a fragment of carved masonry, probably part of a late 11th- century windowhead, discovered in the demolished east wall in 1873 and adapted as a piscina. (fn. 180) The lower stages of the tower, which include on the west side a 13th-century two-light lancet and signs of a gable, and on the north a blocked early window close to the eastern corner, suggest that the largely post-medieval tower was built up on the walls of a probably 13th-century north aisle. (fn. 181) The plain western arch of the surviving north arcade also belonged to an earlier aisle, of which the foundations were discovered in the 1870s; until then a crude diagonal wall created a passage through the arch into the east side of the tower. (fn. 182) There may have been a large reredos in the medieval chancel: a blocked, probably 14th-century, window was revealed in the blank east wall in 1873, and until that date the east end was lit by a large, probably 14th-century, window at the east end of the south wall. (fn. 183) The image of the Virgin, the focus of Cokethorpe's medieval cult, may have formed part of such a reredos.
2. e.g. Hearne's Colln. xi (O.H.S. lxii), 67.
5. Below, this section [Cokethorpe].
6. e.g. D. & C. Exeter, MS. 2865.
7. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. b 40, f. 119; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 7, passim; above, intro. [Claywell].
8. Oseney Cart. iv, pp. 466, 524; cf. Eynsham Cart. i, p. 104, where he is Niel the deacon.
9. For list of rectors, W. D. Macray, Our Parish Church: copy in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 8° 469 (6), annotated in Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 147v.-148v. Medieval institutions are noted in Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 55, later institutions in Oldfield, 'Clerus Oxf. Dioc.'; O.R.O., TS. Cal. Presentation Deeds.
10. Rot. Welles, ii (L.R.S. vi), 8; Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, 141; 1330-4, 231; Reg. Sutton, viii (L.R.S. lxxvi), 189.
11. P.R.O., C 137/207, no. 29; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 55, f. 141; ibid. b 78, ff. 147v.-148v.; Cal. Pat. 1422-9, 88.
12. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 55, f. 153.
13. Ibid. b 78, ff. 147v.-148v.
14. Lambeth Palace Libr., Reg. Whitgift, i, f. 300; Cal. Pat. 1584-5 (L. & I. Soc. ccxli), 20.
15. O.R.O., TS. Cal. Presentation Deeds, ser. II, f. 32.
16. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 168, 180; Reg. Magd. Coll. v. 196; ibid. n.s. iv. 35-6, 98.
17. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 1801.
18. Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 32.
19. Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 141.
20. Subsidy, 1526, 261; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii. 178.
21. B.L. Harl. MS. 843, f. 4; Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. iv. 35-6; Par. Colln. iv. 128.
22. Facsimiles of Early Chart. ed. H. E. Salter, no. 58; Oseney Cart. iii, pp. 345, 353, 369; iv, pp. 3, 7, 46-51.
23. Oseney Cart. iv, pp. 524-5.
24. Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 246; Oseney Cart. iv, pp. 525-6.
25. e.g. Oseney Cart. vi, pp. 242.
26. Eynsham Cart. i, pp. 4, 82-3; ii, pp. lxv-lxvi.
27. D. & C. Exeter, MS. 2931.
28. Ibid. MS. 5100: Bampton Deanery bailiff's acct. 1416- 17; Bodl. MS. d.d. Harcourt c 134/2, p. 43; above, econ. hist. [Barley Pk.].
29. e.g. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. c 9, f. 271v.; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 205-6.
30. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. c 9, ff. 35, 101, 127; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 202-3.
31. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. b 40, f. 119. For a copy with some variants, ibid. c 142, f. 155.
32. Bodl. MSS. d.d. Harcourt b 5-6, passim; c 133/1-2; c 134/2; c 144/1, p. 37.
33. O.R.O., Standlake tithe award.
34. e.g. ibid. Misc. Druce VI/v/1.
35. Ibid. MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 9, tithe pps. 1819-38.
36. e.g. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 168.
37. O.R.O., Duckl. tithe award and map.
38. Ibid.; Bodl. G.A. Oxon. b 90 (25).
39. O.R.O., Standlake tithe award.
40. Ibid. Misc. Pe. VII/1.
41. Ibid. Hardwick tithe award.
42. P.O. Dir. Oxon. (1847 and later edns.), which ignore the £6 rent charge from Standlake, confirmed in 1887; O.R.O., Duckl. and Standlake tithe awards (1887); ibid. MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 9, corresp. 1885-7.
43. Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1883 and later edns.); O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 9, tithe pps. 1900-26.
44. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. b 40, f. 119.
45. Ibid. f. 118: undated but c. 1689. For a copy, with some variants, ibid. c 142, ff. 151-3.
46. Ibid. Duckl. incl. award; ibid. Hardwick tithe award.
47. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 211.
48. Ibid. ff. 166, 168, 188; Magd. Coll. Mun., modern deeds 14.3.27; O.R.O., Duckl. incl. map, plot 19.
49. Visit. Dioc. Linc. (L.R.S. xxxiii), 132.
51. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. b 40, f. 119.
52. Hearth Tax Oxon. 220; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 378, passim.
53. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 209.
54. Ibid. f. 160; O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. b 40, f. 118.
55. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. d 566, ff. 113-14; Bodl. MS. d.d. Fitt c 4/2; ibid. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 198.
56. C.O.S., PRN 11207: archit. notes, including drawing of dated rainwaterhead; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 172, 174.
57. C.O.S., PRN 11207. The shield mistakenly attributed to Poynings is that of Grey (barry of six argent and azure a bend gules) in which the silver and blue pigments have corrupted respectively to yellow/gold and green.
58. e.g. for Sydenham, padlocks; for Holand, silver fleurde-lys on a blue ground and silver leopards (corrupted on one beam to yellow/gold).
59. Complete Peerage, s.v. Deincourt, Grey, Holand, and Lovel. For the heraldry cf. E. A. Greening Lamborn, 'Lovel Tomb at Minster', O.A.S. Rep. (1937), 13-20.
60. C.O.S., PRN 11207, corresp. files.
61. Bodl. MS. d.d. Fitt c 4/2.
62. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 1801.
63. e.g. Rot. Welles, ii (L.R.S. vi), 8; Emden, O.U. Reg. to 1500, i, s.v. Abberbury, John.
64. e.g. Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, 141; 1301-7, 72; P.R.O., SC 1/38/158.
65. B.L. Harl. Ch. 50.H.26; P.R.O., SC 8/14995; Genealogist, n.s. xxiv. 242-3.
66. Emden, O.U. Reg. to 1500, 1463-4, 1547; Cal. Papal Reg. x. 135; V.C.H. Wilts. ix. 177-8, 184.
67. Emden, O.U. Reg. to 1500, 939; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 147v.-148v.
68. Visit. Dioc. Linc. i (L.R.S. xxxiii), 132; ibid. ii (L.R.S. xxxv), 49; Subsidy, 1526, 261.
69. Emden, O.U. Reg. 1501-40, 352; Cal. Pat. 1548-9, 158.
70. Emden, O.U. Reg. 1501-40, 641; O.A.S. Rep. (1914), 191-2.
72. O.A.S. Rep. (1914), 187, 197-8.
73. e.g. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 199, 201; O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. c 5, f. 71; Archdeacon's Ct. ii (O.R.S. xxiv), 139-40.
74. He signs many contemporary documents in the parish: e.g. O.R.O., Peake II/i/1; II/iii/1.
75. No other M.A. of that name and those dates is known. W. D. Macray identifies Harrison as the Corpus Christi fellow, citing no source: cf. Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 8° 469 (6), 8; O.A.S. Rep. (1913), 150. For Harrison's presentation cf. Lambeth Palace Libr., Reg. Whitgift, i, f. 300; Cal. Pat. 1584-5 (L. & I. Soc. 241), 20.
76. T. Fowler, Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (O.H.S. xxv), 98, 125-9; Cal. Pat. 1566-9, 329; Reg. Univ. Oxf. i (O.H.S. i), 230; ibid. ii (2) (O.H.S. xi), 14.
78. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 378, passim.
79. e.g. ibid. p. 399; ibid. b 78, f. 149.
80. Burley (d. 1671) was certainly rector by 1654: Cal. S.P. Dom. 1654, 248; cf. Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 8° 469 (6), 8, wrongly dating his incumbency. For relationship of Burley and Bayley, O.R.O., MS. Wills Oxon. 6/4/23; Oxon. Visit. 1634, 3; Wilts. Visit. (Harl. Soc. cv/cvi), 200.
81. Magd. Coll. Mun., EP/109/53; Reg. Magd. Coll. v. 196; ibid. n.s. iv. 98; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 168.
82. Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. iv. 35-6.
83. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. c 65, passim.
84. Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. iv. 121-2; V.C.H. Oxon. iii. 198-9. For a hostile judgment of him, Par. Colln. ii. 128.
85. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 147v.-148v. For curates, ibid. f. 162 and v.
87. O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. d 555, d 558, d 561, d 564; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 161, 163; Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. v. 70-1.
88. e.g. O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. d 566, d 574; ibid. b 38; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 164; Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. v. 133.
89. O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. d 178, p. 191; d 550, f. 59v.; ibid. MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. c 38, f. 87; Wilb. Letter Bks. pp. 151, 286-7, 289, 293-4; Reg. Magd. Coll. vii. 263-4; ibid. n.s. vi. 81-2; McClatchey, Oxon. Clergy, 88; Oxf.Chron. 10, 17 Mar. 1860.
90. Ch. and Chapel, nos. 145, 203.
91. e.g. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 335; Oxf. Chron. 3 Mar. 1860.
92. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 338.
93. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. d 89, pp. 1-5; E. Craster, Hist. Bodl. Libr. 1845-1945, 33, 52, 96-8, 104; Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. vii. 53-9.
94. Magd. Coll. Mun., MS. 799 (i-vi): misc. Ducklington pps., including par. mags.
95. M. Harris, A Kind of Magic, 168.
96. Recorded in 1546: O.R.O., MS. Wills Oxon. 179, f. 131.
97. Footings at the east end of the south aisle indicated an aisle earlier than the chancel, and those at the west end a possibly narrower structure: C.O.S., PRN 3889, Oxf. Archaeol. Unit report, 1994.
99. Footings at the junction of the aisle and west side of the porch showed a northern projection contemporary with the aisle wall, probably a former buttress balancing that further east.
101. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 170.
102. e.g. O.A.S. Rep. (1891), 5; Pevsner, Oxon. 588-9.
103. e.g. Gent. Mag. lxxxv (2), 491-2; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 256, f. 3; O.A.S. Rep. (1872), 33-5; ibid. (1891), 11. For the recesses, above plate 21.
104. O.A.S. Rep. (1872), 33-5; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 132.
105. Illust. in Skelton, Antiq. Oxon. Bampton hund. pl. 5.
107. Par. Colln. iv. 128-9; Gent. Mag. lxxxv (2), 491-2.
108. O.A.S. Rep. (1891), 10-11; ibid. (1871), 5.
109. Below, this section [Cokethorpe].
111. Magd. Coll. Mun., MS. 799 (vi), Par. Mag. July 1910: rep. of excavation. For a fanciful interpretation of the vault, F. S. Thacker, Stripling Thames, 219.
112. Gent. Mag. lxxxv (2), 491-2.
113. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 165v., 174; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 7, endpps.
114. Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. vi. 10, 81-2; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 174; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 7, s.a. 1837, 1841.
115. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 94v.-97 (plans), 107-108v., 134; ibid, c 103, ff. 404-12; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. c 1801 (plan); Magd. Coll. Mun., MS. 799 (vi), s.a. 1871-6; Oxf. Jnl. 27 July 1872.
116. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 99-106, 110v.; O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 1801: faculty 1883; ibid. c 2205, no. 33.
117. For illust. of 1819, Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 532, f. 37.
118. Ibid. b 78, ff. 105-6, 110v.; O.A.S. Rep. (1891), 11.
119. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 256, f. 3; Par. Colln. iv. 128; O.A.S. Rep. (1871), 6.
120. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 256, f. 3; Par. Colln. iv. 128-9. For Bayley arms, Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. d 271, f. 13.
121. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 165.
122. e.g. O.A.S. Rep. (1871), 6.
123. P.R.O., E 315/67, f. 240.
124. Listed in Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 164 and v.
125. Magd. Coll. Mun., MS. 799 (iii-v), Nov. 1888, Oct. 1901, Apr. 1909.
126. Reg. Magd. Coll., n.s. vi. 81-2. For photo. of cartouche, Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 486.
127. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 170v.
128. Ibid. ff. 171, 177-8; cf. Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. vi. 81-2, which erroneously gives date 1873.
129. e.g. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 175; Magd. Coll. Mun., MS. 799 (ii, v), Jan. 1885, Feb. 1904, Feb. 1905; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 9, s.a. 1948.
130. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 169 and v, 2O9v.; Ch. Bells Oxon. 123-4.
131. Evans, Ch. Plate, 58-9; cf. O.A.S. Rep. (1890), 8-9.
132. O.R.O., MSS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 1-5, 10-11, c 1, d 1-2, e 1. There are transcripts in C.O.S., O.R.O., and Bodl. MS. Eng. c 2030; cf. also W. D. Macray, 'Index of Duckl. Par. Regs.', O.A.S. Rep. (1880).
133. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 1801, s.a. 1878, 1926; ibid. MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. e 6, s.a. 1914; ibid. b 7, s.a. 1926.
134. Ibid. MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 9, terrier 1831.
135. Ibid. incl. award and map, plot 257.
136. Ibid. MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 7, passim.
137. Ibid. b 9, terrier 1831; ibid. tithe award and map, plot 239; above, local govt.
138. Ibid. MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. c 4, s.a. 1868-72; ibid. Welch LXI/1, LXII/1; ibid. Peake II/xiii/4; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 252-4.
139. Above, intro.; above, this section.
140. Eynsham Cart. i, p. 157; B.L. Harl. Ch. 45.D.18.
141. Misread as the 'church of La, otherwise the chapel of Cokethorpe': Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. d 271, ff. 3, 31.
142. Reg. Sutton, viii (L.R.S. lxxvi), 173-5.
143. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 288v.-290v.; Cal. Pat. 1364-7, 101, 112.
144. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, ff. 290-2; Cal. Pat. 1370-4, 254, 287, 451.
145. e.g. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 55, ff. 153, 169; Liber de Antiquis Legibus (Camd. Soc. [1st ser.], xxxii), pp. ccxxvii sqq.
147. D. & C. Exeter, MS. 2865; J. Blair, 'Parish versus village: the Bampton-Standlake tithe conflict of 1317-19', Oxon. Local Hist. ii (2), 34-47.
148. Reg. Sutton, viii (L.R.S. lxxvi), 173-5.
149. D. & C. Exeter, MS. 648.
150. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 291v.
151. C.O.S., Duckl. par. reg. transcripts.
152. e.g. ibid. Agnes Carew, s.a. 1633.
153. Ibid. Standlake par. reg. transcripts.
154. Visit. Dioc. Linc. i (L.R.S. xxxiii), 132; ibid. ii (L.R.S. xxxv), 51; O.A.S. Rep. (1930), 299.
155. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. 078, f. 291v., citing a Particular for Grant not traced in P.R.O.
156. P.R.O., SC 6/Hen. VIII/7248-9. The allowances were not claimed in 1537-8: ibid. SC 6/Hen. VIII/7247.
157. O.R.O. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 22, f. 67.
158. Above, this section; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 291v.
159. Hearne's Colln. xi (O.H.S. lxxii), 67.
160. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 291v.; P.R.O., E 318/37/2025; Cal. Pat. 1549-51, 89.
161. P.R.O., E 321/25/11; ibid. STAC 4/4/53.
162. Archdeacon's Ct. (O.R.S. xxiv), 139.
163. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 22, f. 67 and v.
164. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 294v. The alleged bequest is not mentioned in Holyman's will: P.R.O., PROB 11/42A.
165. Above, manors; below, nonconf.
166. Above, this section; below, Yelford, church.
167. Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. iv. 35-6.
168. e.g. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. d 555; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 212v.
169. Secker's Visit. 55-6; O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. d 555, d 558, d 561, d 564.
170. O.R.O., MSS. Oxf. Dioc. b 38, c 335, c 338, c 344, d 572, d 580; Ch. and Chapel, no. 203; Wilb. Visit. 51.
171. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 2205, no. 33.
172. Wilb. Letter Bks. pp. 286-7, 289, 293-4.
173. Magd. Coll. Mun., MS. 799 (i-vi): par. mags.
174. O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 1801; plaque in chap.; C.O.S., PRN 11202: notes by James Cartland.
175. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 3O1b, verso.
176. Cal. Pat. 1364-7, 101; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 291v.
177. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 3O1b, verso; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 8, f. 1.
179. It was in that position in 1823: Skelton, Oxon. Antiq. Bampton hund., p. 8 and n.
180. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 302.
181. For a different view of the antiquity of tower and gable cf. C.O.S., PRN 11202: Cartland's notes.
182. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. d 271, f. 27c; Oxf. Jnl. 17 Oct. 1874; O.A.S. Rep. (1871), 16.
183. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. d 271, f. 27c; above, plate 23; O.A.S. Rep. (1871), 16.
184. Above, this section. For a different dating of many features, D.o.E., Revised Hist. Bldg. List (1988).
185. Hearne's Colln. xi (O.H.S. lxxii), 67.
186. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 301b.
187. W. J. Monk, By Thames and Windrush, 46; O.A.S. Rep. (1872), 32-5.
188. C.O.S., PRN 11202: Cartland's notes; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 8, passim.
189. O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 8.
190. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 305v.; O.R.O., MS. d.d. Par. Duckl. b 8, s.a. 1873.
192. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 305v.; Oxf.Jnl. 17 Oct. 1874; O.R.O., MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 2205, no. 33.
193. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. d 271, ff. 29-30.
194. Ibid, b 78, f. 302.
195. Ibid. ff. 168, 305v.; Reg. Magd. Coll. n.s. vi. 81-2; C.O.S., PRN 11202: J. Cartland's notes.
196. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 305v.; B.L. Add. MS. 36372: drawing of 1825. For the Sydenham/Lovel marriage, Complete Peerage, viii. 215.
197. Oxf. Jnl. 17 Oct. 1874; plaque in chapel.
198. Ch. Bells Oxon. i, p. 98.
199. Evans, Ch. Plate, 59-60.
200. Cal. Pat. 1549-51, 89.
201. Hearne's Colln. xi (O.H.S. lxxii), 67; Bodl. MS. d.d. Harcourt c 14/1.
202. O.R.O., MSS. d.d. Par. Duckl. c 1, f. 1v.; e 7, s.a. 1875; ibid. MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. c 61, ff. 410, 423, 425; N.M.R., photo, of chap. (1943).
203. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. b 78, f. 302.

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