CAKE & COCKHORSE, VOLUME 9

Nos. 1 – 9, Autumn 1982 – Summer 1985

CONTENTS

1 Hook Norton: Buildings and History: A brief history from Saxon times to date, Reg Dand 2 A Hook Norton Family: The Calcott family and inventory of 1682, with illustrations, Sue Coltman 7 The Hook Norton Ironstone Companies: A description of four companies and their quarries, Roger Gorton 14 ‘From Our Own Correspondent’: Headlines from the Banbury Guardian concerning Hook Norton, Fred Beale 23 Village Dissenters: The Hook Norton Baptist Chapel and its Chapelyard, Kate Tiller 27 Some Field Names in the parish of Hook Norton, Percy Hackling 32 2 Inventory of the Goods of Nathaniel Fiennes, d. 1669 38 High Days and Holidays in Hook Norton: How people conducted their free time B.T.V. (before television), Alan Sibson 49 Pudding Time in Oxfordshire in 1823: George IV visits Oxfordshire, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson 52 3 The Village Schoolmaster, 1866-1882: Mr Etchells’ time at Hook Norton School, Don Amphlett 67 Tradesmen of Hook Norton in the Nineteenth Century: Documenting village tradesmen and sources of information, Mary Sumner 74 The Halls of Hook Norton: Carpenters, wheelwrights and wellsinkers, Gill White and Jean Williams 79 John Plumb of Shenington, husbandman: excerpts from his account book, 1772-1792, Nan Clifton 86 Burton Dassett and the last Lady Say, D.E.M. Fiennes 89 4 Mischief, Pranks and Spare Time: Aspects of the leisure of Edwardian village youth, Michael Pickering 98 Mary Dew (1845-1936) of Lower Heyford: A model Victorian teacher, Pamela Horn 112 Cake & Cockhorse, 9, 1-9, Autumn 1982 – Summer 1985 contd.

5 ‘De Arte Venandi cum Auibus’: A history of the art of falconry, R.J. Ivens 130 The Old Vicarage, Horsefair, Banbury: The building and its history described, Barbara Adkins 139 The Will of Nathaniel Fiennes (1608-1669), D.E.M. Fiennes 143 North Oxfordshire Parish Registers and Modern Transcripts: A list of registers, the dates covered and the places where the originals and transcripts are deposited, Colin G. Harris 148 6 From Daguerrotype to Dry Plate: The growth of professional photography in Banbury, Sarah Gosling 158 Canons Ashby: A Civil War skirmish, J. Portergill 165 Cofferer Cope and the Copes of Canons Ashby, Clare Jakeman 166 Taxpayers in Restoration Banbury: The taxes, the taxpayers and their houses described together with lists for 1661, 1662, 1663, 1665, including Neithrop, Grimsbury and Nethercote, J.S.W. Gibson 168 7 Hedge Dating on the Broughton Estate, Gillian Beeston 194 A Report of the Oxfordshire Archaeological Unit, Tim Allen 201 From the early Banbury Guardian, Penelope Renold 202 Cake & Cockhorse: ‘The First Quarter Century’: list of articles published to Summer 1984 205 8 Medieval Building Trades, R.J. Ivens 222 The Building of Banbury Library in 1884, Malcolm Graham 237 The Expansion of Broughton Castle, 1550-1554, David Fiennes240 From the early Banbury Guardian, Penelope Renold 243 9 A Teenage Diary of the 1890s: George James Dew of Lower Heyford, Pamela Horn 250 An Old Banbury Society [The Banbury Book Society], Ted Clark 261 Sarah’s Secret, or No Stone Unturned [Bodfish of Tadmarton, C18/19], Mary Bodfish 263 From the early Banbury Guardian, Penelope Renold 268