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  1. Banbury, Chipping Norton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLV.N.W. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14", plus wide margins. Cancelled 'Record Map' stamp in margin. Printed 1882. £18.00

  2. Bicester 20 MILES ROUND BICESTER Ordnance Survey map Coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 44" x 45" plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding and contained in cloth slipcase, titled as above, slipcase rubbed to edges. Covers almost the whole of Oxfordshire, plus parts of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire, and Northamptonshire. County boundaries, woodland, parkland, towns, and water features, main roads, hand-coloured. With twenty coloured circular rings, with Bicester at the centre every 1". Slightly dusty to edges, few splits to linen at edges. Revised in 1893 and Published by Colonel J. Farquharson, Director General , 1895. £60.00
    Covers:- Bicester, Oxford, Abingdon, Witney, Banburt, Thame, Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Abingdon, Leighton Buzzard, Newport Pagnall, Kineton, Shipston Stour, etc..

  3. Bloxham, Milcombe, Wigginton PARTICULARS OF SALE of Agricultural Holdings known as 'The Bloxham Glebe Estate' extending to 165 Acres... for sale by auction... July 31st, 1919. 4pp., 4to, folds and creasing. 1919. £7.00
    Included an osier bed.

  4. Charlbury area FARM WAGES ACCOUNT BOOK 1885 - 1920. 8vo account book, marbled boards, rubbed, calf spine. Approx. 200 pages recording wages paid fortnightly, listing names of workers and payment, mostly giving just the name, and the number of days worked, but sometimes the nature of the work, e.g. thrashing, thatching, making hurdles, bag mending, mangold pulling, hedge cutting. Each page is full, and neatly written. 1885-1920. £65.00
    A slip of paper loosely inserted by someone at a later date says the accounts are for Upper Court Farm, Chadlington, but I can find no reference to Chadlington or this farm in the accounts; the only place mentioned is Charlbury, where a a Mr Harris of Charlbury is paid (at the back of the book).

  5. Chipping Norton, Chadlington ACCOUNT OF SIR EDWIN BAYNTUN SANDYS in account with S. Beale. Notebook with 43 double-page spreads for debit and credit, plus many blank leaves, size 7" x 4«", limp calf wraps, chipped at edges, new thin card spine laid under calf. Jan. 1812 - Feb. 1819. £80.00
    Presumably Sir Edwin Bayntun Sandys of Misserden Castle and Chadlington Hall. Notes mostly sums advanced, interest, etc, rather than specific expenditure: includes sums 'Sent to you at Miserden', 'Paid Inn bill at Woodstock', 'paid your coachman', 'Miss Bayntun annuity' 'Dr. to you at Burford to remit Mrs Davis in Town for School Bill', 'Recd. Chief Rents at Miserden Court', 'By draft to you at St. John's College to pay rent... £90...', 'Received rents at Chadlington' (Sir Edwin was Lord of the Manor). Sir Edwin apparently borrowed large sums from Beale 'On 20th April 1816 Sir E.B. Sandys drew a Draft on me at 3 months for 500L, and which I at first refused to accept but which I was induced to accept... at the very particular request of Sir E...'

  6. Jericho, Oxford 6 WALTON STREET, JERICHO. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Strong Coal Cart.... Harness, and various Effects. To be Sold by Auction by Messrs T. Mallam and Son, On the Premises on Thursday, March 29th, 1855.... Poster, size 15 x 10" H. Cooke & Co, Printers, Oxford, 1855. £28.00
    Includes an extensive list of the 121 items in the sale, listed room by room.

  7. Littlemore, near Oxford CATALOGUE OF PART OF THE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Double-Barrelled Gun, Useful Gig and Harness, Baker's Covered Spring Cart.... To Be Sold by Auction by Messrs T. Mallam and Son, at a Barn in the Village, on Tuesday Next, August 5th, 1856.... Poster, size 17" x 13", few folds, slight off-setting. Printed by H. Cooke & Co, Oxford, 1856. £15.00
    Includes an extensive list of the items in the sale.

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  8. Oxford PEREMPTORY SALE Under an Execution, and by Order of the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. To Be Sold by Auction by Messrs T. Mallam and Son, On the Premises, Park End Wharf, and near to the Railway Station, on Wednesday Next, December the 21st, 1853.... Two Useful Horses, Spring Van, Carts, Harness, Cochin China Fowls, a few Lots of Furniture and effects of Mr John Gammon.... Poster, size 20" x 14«", few folds, slight off-setting. Printed by H. Cooke & Co, Oxford, 1853. £16.00
    Includes an extensive list of the items in the sale.

  9. Raine (Rd.) PLAN OF AN ESTATE AT SYDENHAM AND CHINNOR in the County of Oxford, The Property of Henry Burrows Esq., by Richd. Raine 1828. Manuscript plan in ink and wash colour on vellum, size 25" x 22", plus margins. Scale 5" = 6 chains. Title in a variety of decorative lettering styles, with flourishes, compass rose, scale bar. Shows buildings (some in pink some in grey), roads, 'Chinnor Footway', parish boundary, hedges drawn along boundaries of fields and of roads, orchards and gardens, coppice areas. Pasture areas shaded green, arable in buff lines. 'Sydenham Village' marked in bold Gothic lettering, with small drawing of Church in elevation. Adjoining owners named. Reference Table bottom left, with numbers on plan (1-32), with Description of Premises, State, Quantities. Extends from the road from Thame to Chinnor top right, to the road from Tetsworth to the Church on the left. An interesting feature of this map is the many narrow strips of land in 'Sturt Furlong'. 1828. £300.00
    A very finely drawn and lettered plan. Richard Raine (1799-1848) is listed in Eden's Dictionary of Land Surveyors as 'of Doughty St., London and Woodstock, Oxfordshire.' The Burrows family were originally woollen drapers from Thame.

  10. St. Martins, Oxford ASSIGNMENT of the Estate and Effects of Joseph Wickens of the Parish of St. Martin in the City of Oxford, Cordwainer, dealer and Chapman, a Bankrupt, to Samuel Jackson of Windmill St., London, Currier, Maurice Blackford of Wantage, Cordwainer, John Coleman of Oxford, Currier. On paper, 3 pages size 22" x 15", signed by Commissioners and assignees with small papered seals. 1797. £18.00
    Wickens is described as having for two years carried on the 'business of a cordwainer by buying of Leather and working up and converting the same into Shoes Boots and Vandykes'.

  11. Steeple Barton EXTRACT FROM THE AWARD of the Commissioners acting under an Act of Parliament for dividing and enclosing the common fields.... within the parish of Westcott Barton... within the Liberty of Middle Barton in the parish of Steeple Barton... in so far as relates to the Allotments in lieu of property of Samuel Churchill a Bankrupt. Manuscript, 26p., folio, docket title. Paper watermarked 1838. £20.00
    The Act dated from 1796.

  12. Studdridge, Lewknor A SURVEY OF THE ESTATE OF THE HON. RICD. CARTER ESQ. at Studdridge in the Parish of Lewknor & County of Oxford. Measur'd and drawn by Tho. Williams 1736. Manuscript map in ink and colour on vellum, size 27" x 31". With scale of perches ('Scala Pertica'), approx. 1" = 10 perches. Title at bottom with figure of a bearded man leaning on the cartouche, name of surveyor bottom right, with large figure of a man in classical garb, with book and map, two figures holding the scale bar bottom right, and top left a small coat of arms held by a cherub, and a large classical god figure sitting on clouds. Top centre is a decorative coloured compass rose. The map shows field boundaries (with hedges), wooded areas shaded green, with small drawn trees, a few small houses, paths. Fields named, with acreage, adjoining owners named. On the right of the map is a schedule in border 19" x 6" 'A Table of all the Survey'd Places contain'd in this Map with the Contents', listing arable and wood land, with acreage, in Trip's Farm, Lane's Farm, Munday's Farm. The lettering and the colouring of the figures is rubbed and slightly faded, but the wording is legible, though there are four small areas of browning in three fields, and in part of the Schedule where the information has been obscured. 2" tear from bottom edge in vellum, with slight loss, small split in vellum in schedule. 1736. £270.00
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