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Arbitration Brief - Lee v Moore
This dispute came to arbitration at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford in 1879.   Less than 3 years before, Timothy Wood Lee had sold his Little Milton medical practice to Samuel Moore and moved to Thame where his father and brother had already been practicing for many years.  On offer is the brief for the plaintiff (T W Lee), in manuscript on 14 large paper sheets.  (ref 323/53)  *£12.50  Not for export

[Bicester]  King & Son Billhead
King & Son were ironmongers and also traded in oils, paints & colors (sic).  This 1907 invoice is for various items inc 'drawing charges out of 3 revolvers'.  (ref 333/33)  *£2.50  Not for export

A Burford Celebration in Camera
Raymond Moody, 1990.  Oblong 8vo, 80pp inc index, 70 full-page photo-ills with captions.  A pictorial celebration marking the 900th anniversary of Burford's town charter.  F copy (ref 2773)  £5.00

[Ensham]  Sale Particulars
Printed particulars for the 1842 sale held at the Red Lion of:
Lot 1.  A newly built cottage and 135 acres of land known as Ambury Closes.
Lot 2.  12 acres of land near Ensham Bridge.
Lot 3.  The 32 acre Wrothys 'bounded by the River Isis'.
Lot 4.  A cottage & outbuildings tenanted by Edward Holloway.
In the event only lot 2 was sold - the name of the purchaser is scrawled but appears to read Samuel Dance.  Sale particulars of this age are relatively scarce, and this one is in surprisingly good condition - just a trace of curling at the top, but this  can be flattened out in time.  (ref 6633)  *£20.00

A Guide to Henley-on-Thames 1896
1982 facsimile rep of Emily J Climenson's original.  120pp followed by 16pp of local adverts, 7 full-page ills inc street map.  Nice copy, VG in G but lightly scuffed d/w.  (ref 550/19)  £7.50

[Lillingstone Lovell] Grant of Land to extend burial ground
1889 land grant (signed) by James Bogle Delap. Parchment. Site plan. (ref B165 - also on the Buckinghamshire list)  *£8.00

[Marston]  Sale Particulars of 45 Acre Farm
Printed particulars for the 1875 sale of this un-named farm (tenanted by William Andrew).  The only clues as to it's location are contained in the breakdown of fields etc, the two largest ones being the 15 acre Scales Hedge and the 16 acre Litchfield's Ground.  The farmhouse is described as having 'Parlour, Sitting Room, Kitchen, Pantry, capital Dairy, 4 Bedrooms and 2 Attics;  also a large and excellent Garden and Orchard, Barn, Tool House, 2 Stables, capital stone-built and Slated Cart Hovel, Piggery, Cowhouse, Cattle Hovels &c together with 5 Inclosures of first-class Pasture Land....'.  Nice clean condition.  (ref 5398)  £12.00 UK post-free

[Minster Lovel]  Sale Particulars - House & Land on the Windrush
Printed particulars for the 1858 sale (held at the Marlborough Arms Inn, Witney) of this property 'very pleasantly situated on an eminence overlooking the River Windrush, which River bounds the estate for nearly three-quarters of a mile........The estate is situate within three miles of the capital market town of Witney, and four of Burford.....'.  It seems that shortly before the sale a labourer's cottage and garden were withdrawn from the sale of this 20 acre estate, as details are crossed through.   Some pencillings, evidently scrappy notes probably made during viewing.  The outside (as folded) is rather grubby, but the worst of this can be removed with care - otherwise quite good condition.  (ref 6618)  *£15.00

A North Oxfordshire Village - Over Norton
S Rhona Arthur, 2000.  Large heavy paperback, white card covers, 298pp followed by index, lots of ills inc double-page village map, multifolding parish map at end.  The development of the village, its customs, crafts, treasures and changing forms of economic activity - a local history with the family historian very much in mind.     Published at £18.99 and doubtless still in print, this VG copy (ref 525/11)  £12.00

St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford
1970, small booklet, 40pp.  *£0.50

Register of Exeter College, Oxford
Oxford Historical Society, 1894. 183+399pp inc index, 4 plates at end as required. Rectors, Fellows and other members, prefixed by a history of the college. Front inner hinge badly cracked, not helped by the thickness of the book. Familiar mauve cloth boards, gilt crest & lettering, edges & corners worn but perhaps not unduly considering age. G. (ref 2280)  £18.00

Monumental Inscriptions on the Floor of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford
A scrappy manuscript list, with corrections in another hand, on 26 paper sheets.  No clue as to when this was done but we'd guess between the wars.  (ref 80/17)  *£8.00

Victorian Oxford
W R Ward, 1965.  431pp inc index.  As might be expected, the book is dominated by change and development in university matters.  Some embrowning of eps o/w a very nice clean copy, VG in G d/w.  (ref 525/35)  £12.00

[Oxford]  Sale Particulars - Houses and Building Plots
Printed particulars for the 1925 sale held at the Golden Cross Hotel of:
3 & 4 William Street, tenanted by E A Hurst and Henry Dixon
124 Cowley Road, (Mrs Dawson)
4, 5 & 6 Juxon Street, ( H White, T W Scroggs, Mrs Jones)
46 Boulter Street, St Clements (Mrs Armstrong)
3 building plots in Victoria Road, Summertown
Rather grubby, but with care the worst of this can be removed.  (ref 6664)  *£12.00

[Tetsworth]  Abstract of Title to Cottage
This cottage 'bounded on the South by the London Road, on the West by the Marsh End and on the North and East by the Common.....formerly in the occupation of James Bowell and afterwards of Edward Butcher and now or lately in the occupation of William Ellis' came up for sale at the Spread Eagle, Thame, in 1899.  This abstract gives details of property deeds going back 25 years.  Very much the concern of Joseph Charles Cornish and his sons Henry and Alfred.  Manuscript on 7 large paper sheets.   (ref 323/52)  *£10.00  Not for export

[Thame Documents]  4 Deeds to House
These 4 parchment deeds, dating from the period 1807-1825, relate to 'all that messuage or tenement situate and being in New Thame in the parish of Thame..... heretofore in the occupation of Thomas Hall, since of William Howkins and.....Edward Burnard deceased and now of Mary Burnard widow mother of the said Edward Burnard party hereto together with liberty of free passage.....leading into the yard and backside of the messuage or tenement formerly The Sun public house'.  All 4 involve one or more members of the Burnard family.  (ref 321/6)  *£30.00   Not for export

A Village on the Thames, Whitchurch Yesterday and Today
Sir Rickman J Godlee, 1926. 283pp, map eps, 20 plate-ills, mostly full-page. A series of articles written for the parish magazine assembled & published after the death of the author.  Ex-College library with label on verso of fep, lib mark (in snopake!) on (faded) spine. However, VG. (ref 1494)  £15.00

Some Notes of the History of the Parish of Whitchurch, Oxon
Rev John Slatter, 1895.  150pp, parish sketch-map frontis.   Contents nice and clean except for minor underlining (affects about 4 or 5 pp), scatted spotting affects first & last few leaves, small stain on front board, brown cloth with green spine, bevelled boards, quite a decent copy.  (ref 3111)  £38.00

Highways & Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds
Herbert A Evans, 1916 rep. 407pp inc index, 72 ills from drawings made by Frederick L Griggs in preparation for the original 1906 ed, 4 maps. Described by the author as 'only a Summer excursion into the hill country the lies to the north and west [from Oxford] toward the broad vale of the Severn and Avon', this continues (as do all the Highways & Byways volumes) to be one of the basic standard works on the county. This copy ex-Marlborough College library, their stamp and label on front pastedown. Wear & tear consistent with age, so G. (ref 8270)  £8.50

Old Oxfordshire Churches
W Hobart Bird, 1932.  10mo, 182pp inc index, 12 photo-plates, 11 of which contain 4 small ills.  'A concise guide, especially compiled for motoring folk and others interested in the architecture of our churches, and also their contents, screens, fonts, brasses etc'.  G.  (ref 3316)  *£10.00

NOTE: Present-day South Oxfordshire includes most of those parishes on and north of a line from Ashbury to Moulsford [Wallingford for example], which were formerly in Berkshire. Any material on this area will be on the Berkshire list.