Phil Quinn says that this site adjoins that at South Brent, which he suggests may have allowed vagrants to avoid apprehension by law enforcement authorities by crossing the parish boundary.
Tithe Award, no.413 and no.414
Phil Quinn
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Charlbury is a village north west of Oxford.
Field, J., English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.17
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Charlbury is a village north west of Oxford.
Field, J., English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.17
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The 1841 Census records it as a property name several times; (a) between Cross Cott and Burraton, occupied by an agricultural labourer, his wife and two children, called Snook (b) about 30 entries further on, beyond the Tollhouse, there are three consecutive entries, (i) occupied by 7 adults and 7 children, of which the head is William Snook, but the eldest is a James Symons, Farmer (ii) occupied by 2 adults and 3 children, and (iii) occupied by 2 adults, all engaged in agriculture. Two entries further on is a Schoolhouse. Beggars Bush also appears in the 1871 Census. Read the rest of this entry »
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Field name adjacent to road.
Bill Worsfold A History of Brimpsfield Parish, Brimpsfield Parish Council, 1999, p.87
John Pile
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Tithe Award, t674.
Personal Communication Prof. Michael Costen
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Proceedings of the Old Bailey record the case against Thomas Dwyer and James O Neal for highway robbery. On 8th September 1736 the evidence of the victim, “James Maintrew . July the 31st, I was coming from Horton in Buckinghamshire; at Beggars-bush, between Acton and Kensington, there is a Bridge, and by that Bridge there is a Dunghill and a Gate”. Read the rest of this entry »
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It is fairly well known that the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge liked the play by Fletcher and Massinger (though then regarded as by Beaumont & Fletcher). In Table Talk (17 February 1833) he was recorded as saying ”In the romantic drama Beaumont and Fletcher are almost supreme. Their plays are in general most truly delightful. I could read the Beggar’s Bush from morning to night. How sylvan and sunshiny it is!” However, he expressed reservations about their plots, which he described as “wholly inartificial” and lamented that no “gentleman and scholar can he found to edit these beautiful plays!” Read the rest of this entry »
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Gloucestershire RO, Parish Deeds, Westbury On Severn, ref. D2957/328/6 dated 28 and 29 January 1794, includes a documents referring to a “messuage and farm called the Noards in Westbury with lands; Bunnells Marsh common field (½a), The Long orchard (6a). The Home Orchard (4a); The Bean Plock or Pleck (2a) The Upper Orchard (4a); the Great Beggars Bushes (4a); the Little Beggars Bushes (1a).”
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Philip Henslowe provides a link between the area of a cluster of early Beggars Bush place names in Sussex and many of the early authors who used Beggars Bush in their works. He is best known for his “Diary”, which is the main primary source for the day to day workings of Elizabethan theatre. He was an entrepreneur with wide business and family links in London and Sussex. I cannot show that he ever used the phrase, but he must have been aware of it. Read the rest of this entry »
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