|
| a. | acre(s) |
| Abbrev. Rot. Orig. | Rotulorum Originalium Abbreviatio, temp. Hen. III, Edw. I (Record Commission, 1805) |
| Acts of PC | Acts of the Privy Council of England (HMSO, 1890–1964) |
| Acts of PC (Rec. Com.) | Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, 1386–1542 (Record Commission, 1834–7) |
| Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; 1715–1886 | J. Foster (ed.), Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714; 1715–1886 (Oxford, 1888–92) |
| Arch. | Archive(s) |
| Arch. Queen's Coll. | TS Calendar of the archives of The Queen's College, Oxford: copies in Bodl. and The Queen's College, Oxford |
| archaeol. | archaeology, archaeological |
| Archaeol. Jnl | Archaeological Jnl |
| archit. | architecture, architectural |
| BL | British Library |
| Bampton Hund. | E. Stone and P. Hyde (eds), Oxfordshire Hundred Rolls of 1279 (Bampton Hundred, Witney Borough) (ORS 46, 1968) |
| Benson and Miles, Upper Thames | D. Benson and D. Miles, The Upper Thames Valley: an Archaeological Survey of the River Gravels (Oxford, 1974) |
| Besse, Sufferings | J. Besse, A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, from 1650 to 1689 (London, 1753) |
| bdy; bdies | boundary; boundaries |
| Blair, A-S Oxon. | J. Blair, Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire (1994) |
| Book of Fees | The Book of Fees (HMSO, 1920–31) |
| Blenheim Mun. | Muniments of the duke of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxon. |
| bldg(s) | building(s) |
| Bodl. | Bodleian Library |
| bp | bishop |
| Bp Fell and Nonconf. | M. Clapinson (ed.), Bishop Fell and Nonconformity: Visitation Documents, 1682–3 (ORS 52, 1980) |
| Brewer, Oxon. | J. N. Brewer, A Topographical and Historic Description of the County of Oxford (London, 1819) |
| Brit. | British |
| Burke's Peerage; Extinct Baronetcies; Landed Gentry | J. Burke and others, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage; A History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies; A Dictionary of the Landed Gentry |
| CBA Group 9 | Council for British Archaeology, Regional Group 9 |
| CCC Mun. | Muniments of Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| CE Rec. Centre | Church of England Record Centre, South Bermondsey, London |
| CJ | Journals of the House of Commons |
| COS, OPA; PRN; SMR | Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Central Library, Westgate, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Photographic Archive; Primary Record Number (in SMR); Sites and Monuments Record |
| Cal. Chart. | Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1903–27) |
| Cal. Close | Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1892–1963) |
| Cal. Cttee for Compounding | Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, etc. (HMSO,
1889–92) |
| Cal. Cttee for Money | Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money, 1642–56 (HMSO, 1888) |
| Cal. Fine | Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1911–62) |
| Cal. Inq. Misc. | Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1916–68) |
| Cal. Inq. p.m. | Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1904–87) |
| Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII. | Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII (HMSO, 1898–1955) |
| Cal. Lib. | Calendar of the Liberate Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1917–64) |
| Cal. Papal Regs. | Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters (HMSO and Irish MSS Com. 1893–1986) |
| Cal. Pat. | Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Office (HMSO, 1891–1986) |
| Cal. QS | Calendar of quarter sessions records in Oxfordshire Record Office by W. J. Oldfield |
| Cal. SP Dom. | Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series (HMSO, 1856–1972) |
| Camden; Camden Soc. | Camden Series; Camden Society |
| Cant. & York Soc. | Canterbury and York Society |
| Carterton Guide | Carterton and Black Bourton Official Guide [c. 1973, 1975, 1978, 1981, and 1988 edns]: copies in Bodl. GA Oxon 8° 1601 |
| Cat. | Catalogue |
| Cat. Ancient Deeds | Descriptive Catalouge of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1890–1915) |
| Cath. Rec. Soc. | Catholic Record Society |
| Ch. and Chapel, 1851 | K. Tiller (ed.), Church and Chapel in Oxfordshire, 1851: The Return of the Census of Religious Worship (ORS 55, 1987) |
| Ch. Bells Oxon. | F. Sharpe, The Church Bells of Oxfordshire (ORS 28, 30, 32, 34, 1949–53) |
| Ch. Ch. Arch. | Archives of Christ Church, Oxford |
| Chant. Cert. | Rose Graham (ed.), Chantry Certificates and Edwardian Inventories of Church Goods (ORS 1, 1919) |
| Char. Com. | Charity Commission |
| Char. Don. | Abstract of Returns relative to Charitable Donations for the Benefit of Poor Persons (Parl. Papers 1816 (511), xvi) |
| Close | Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1902–15) |
| Complete Baronetage | G. E. C [okayne], Complete Baronetage (Exeter, 1900–9) |
| Complete Peerage | G. E. C [okayne] and others, The Complete Peerage (2nd edn 1910–59) |
| Compton Census, ed. Whiteman | A. Whiteman (ed.), The Compton Census of 1676 (Records of Social and Economic History, n.s. 10, 1986) |
| Crockford | Crockford's Clerical Directory |
| cttee | committee |
| Cur. Reg. | Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1922–79) |
| D&C | Dean & Chapter |
| DNB | L. Stephen and others (eds), Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1998 edns) |
| DoE, Revised Hist. Bldgs List | Department of Environment, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: copies in COS |
| Davis, Oxon. Map (1797) | R. Davis, A New Map of the County of Oxford (1797) |
| Deserted Villages of Oxon. | K. J. Allison, M. W. Beresford, and J. G. Hurst, Deserted Villages of Oxfordshire (Leicester Univ. Dept of English Local History Occasional Papers, no. 17, 1965) |
| Dep. Kpr's Rep. | Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (1840–1958) |
| Deserted Villages of Oxon. | K. J. Allison, M. W. Beresford, and J. G. Hurst, Deserted Villages of Oxfordshire (Leicester Univ. Dept of English Local History, Occasional Papers, no. 17) |
| Dict. | Dictionary |
| Dir. | Directory |
| Dugdale, Mon. | W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Caley and others (1817–30) |
| EETS | Early English Text Society |
| EHR | English Historical Review |
| EPNS | English Place-Name Society |
| Earldom of Cornwall Accts | L. M. Midgley (ed.), Ministers' Accts of the Earldom of Cornwall, 1296–7 (Camd. 3rd ser. 66–7, 1942–5) |
| Edington Cart. | J. H. Stevenson (ed.), The Edington Cartulary (Wilts. Rec. Soc. 42, 1987) |
| Educ. of Poor Digest | Digest of Returns to the Select Committee on the Education of the Poor (Parl. Papers 1819 (224), ix B) |
| Emden, OU Reg. to 1500 | A. B. Emden, Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to AD 1500 (Oxford, 1957–9) |
| Emden, OU Reg. 1501–40 | A. B. Emden, Biographical Register of the University of Oxford AD 1501 to 1540 (Oxford, 1974) |
| Eng. | England |
| Eton Coll. | Muniments of Eton College, Windsor |
| Eton Coll. Recs | 'Eton College Records' (TSS Calendars of Eton College Muniments): copies at Eton College, PRO, and NRA |
| Evans, Ch. Plate | J. T. Evans, Church Plate of Oxfordshire (Oxford, 1928) |
| Excerpta e Rot. Finium | Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, Hen. III (Record Commission, 1835–6) |
| Eynsham Cart. | H. E. Salter (ed.), Cartulary of Eynsham Abbey (OHS 49, 51) |
| Farrer, Honors | W. Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees (3 vols, London, 1923–5) |
| Feudal Aids | Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1899–1920) |
| Fisher, Kencot | A. S. T. Fisher, The History of Kencot, Oxfordshire (priv. printed 1971) |
| Gent. Mag. | Gentleman's Magazine |
| Geol. Surv. | Geological Survey |
| Gibbons (ed.), Liber Antiquus | A. Gibbons (ed.), Liber Antiquus de Ordinationibus Vicariarum Tempore Hugonis Wells, Lincolniensis Episcopi, 1209–1235 (1888) |
| Glasscock, Subsidy 1334 | R. E. Glasscock, The Lay Subsidy of 1334 (Oxford, 1975) |
| Grundy, Saxon Oxon. | G. B. Grundy, Saxon Oxfordshire (ORS 15, 1933) |
| HC | House of Commons |
| HL | House of Lords |
| HMC | Historical Manuscripts Commission, since 2003 part of The National Archives |
| HMSO | Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office |
| ha. | hectare(s) |
| Harl. Soc. | Harleian Society |
| Hearth Tax Oxon. | M. Weinstock (ed.), Hearth Tax Returns for Oxfordshire, 1665 (ORS 21, 1940) |
| Hodgson, QAB | C. Hodgson, Account of the Augmentation of Small Livings by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne (2nd edn, London, 1845) |
| Holkham Arch. | Archives of the earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk |
| incl. | inclosure |
| inv. | inventory |
| Jefferys, Oxon. Map (1767) | T. Jefferys, The County of Oxford (1767) |
| Jnl Royal Agric. Soc. | Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society |
| L&I Soc. | List and Index Society |
| L&P Hen. VIII | Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (HMSO, 1864–1932) |
| LJ | Journals of the House of Lords |
| LRS | Lincoln Record Society |
| Land Util. Surv. | Reports of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain: pt 56, Oxfordshire, by Mary Marshall (1943) |
| Leland, Itin. (ed. Toulmin Smith) | Itinerary of John Leland, ed. L. Toulmin Smith (1906–10) |
| Lewis, Topog. Dict. Eng. (1840) | S. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of England (1840) |
| Lond. Gaz. | London Gazette |
| Lunt (ed.), Val. Norw. | W. E. Lunt (ed.), Valuation of Norwich (Oxford 1926) |
| Lupton, 'Hist. Black Bourton' | M. G. Lupton, 'History of the Parish of Black Bourton, otherwise called Burton Abbots' [ed. W. D. Macray], OAS Transactions, 43 (1903) |
| Misc. Gen. et Her. | J. J. Howard and W. B. Bannerman (eds), Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (London, 1868–1938) |
| mkt (s) | market(s) |
| mon. | monument(s) |
| N&Q | Notes and Queries |
| NMR | English Heritage, National Monuments Record, Swindon |
| NRA | National Register of Archives |
| New DNB | H.C.G. Matthew and B. Harrison (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford, 2004) |
| Nonarum Inquisitiones | Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scaccarii (Record Commission, 1807) |
| nonconf. | nonconformity |
| OAHS Proc. | Proceedings of the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, 1839–59; and of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society,
1860–1900 |
| OAS Rep. | Reports and Transactions of the North Oxfordshire Archaeological Society,
1853–86, and of the Oxford Archaeological Society 1887–1949 |
| OHS | Oxford Historical Society |
| ORCC | Oxfordshire Rural Community Council |
| ORO | Oxfordshire County Record Office |
| ORS | Oxfordshire Record Society |
| OS | Ordnance Survey |
| Oldfield, 'Clerus Oxf. Dioc.' | MS index to clergy of Oxford diocese by W.J. Oldfield in Oxfordshire Record
Office |
| Orr, Oxon. Agric. | J. Orr, Agriculture in Oxfordshire (Oxford, 1916) |
| Oseney Cart. | H.E. Salter (ed.), Cartulary of Oseney Abbey (OHS 89–91, 97–8, 101) |
| Oxf. Chron. | Oxford Chronicle |
| Oxf. Dioc. Yr Bk | Oxford Diocesan Year Book (Oxford, 1858–) |
| Oxf. Jnl | Jackson's Oxford Journal |
| Oxf. Jnl Synopsis | 'Chronological Synopsis and Index to Oxon. Items in Jackson's Oxford Journal
1753–80', ed. E.C. Davies; '1781–90', ed. E.H. Cordeaux (Typescripts 1967,
1976: copies in Central Library, Westgate, Oxford and the Bodleian Library) |
| Oxon. Fines | H.E. Salter (ed.), Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire, 1195–1291 (ORS 12, 1930) |
| Oxon. Poll, 1754 | The Poll of the Freeholders of Oxford, taken at Oxford on 17–23 April 1754 |
| Oxon. Visit. | W.H. Turner (ed.), Visitations of Oxfordshire in 1566, 1574, and 1634 (Harl. Soc. 5) |
| Oxon. Wills | J.R.H. Weaver and A. Beardwood (eds), Some Oxfordshire Wills (ORS 39, 1958) |
| PN Oxon. (EPNS) | Margaret Gelling, Place-Names of Oxfordshire (English Place-Name Soc. 23–4, 1953–4) |
| PO Arch. | Post Office archives at Mount Pleasant, London |
| PRO | former Public Record Office, since 2003 part of The National Archives |
| PRS | Pipe Roll Society |
| par. | parish; parochial |
| Par. Colln | F.N. Davis (ed.), Parochial Collections by Anthony Wood and Richard Rawlinson
(ORS 2, 4, 11, 1920–9) |
| Pat. | Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office (HMSO, 1900–3) |
| Pearce, 'Cert. 1593' | S. Spencer Pearce, 'A Certificate of the Oxford Clergy, 1593', OAS Rep. (1913),145–70 |
| Pearce, 'Clergy' | S. Spencer Pearce, 'Clergy of the Deaneries of Witney and Bicester during the
Settlement of 1559 and Afterwards', OAS Rep. (1914), 180–237 |
| Pevsner, Oxon. | Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: Oxfordshire
(Harmondsworth, 1974) |
| Pipe R | Pipe Roll |
| Plac. de Quo Warr. | Placita de Quo Warranto (Record Commission, 1818) |
| Placit. in Domo Capit. Abbrev. | Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbreviatio
(Record Commission, 1811) |
| Poll Taxes 1377–81, ed. Fenwick | C.C. Fenwick (ed.), Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, pt. 2: Lincs.-Westmorland
(British Academy Records in Social and Economic Hist. n.s. 29, 2001) |
| Poor Abstract, 1777; 1787 | Reports of Select Committees on Poor Laws, 1775–7 and 1787 (Parl. Papers, HC
Series 1, vol. ix) |
| Poor Abstract, 1804; 1818 | Abstract of Answers and Returns relative to the Expense and Maintenance of the
Poor (Parl. Papers 1804 (175), i; 1818 (82), xix) |
| Prob. Recs. Oxon. 1516–1732 | E. Cheyne and D. M. Barratt (eds), Probate Records of the Courts of the Bishop and
Archdeacon of Oxford 1516–1732 (British Rec. Soc. 93–4, 1981–85) |
| Prob. Recs. Oxon. 1733–1857 | D.M. Barratt, J. Howard-Drake, and M. Priddey (eds), Index to the Probate
Records of the Courts of the Bishop and Archdeacon of Oxford 1733–1857 (ORS 61,
1997) |
| Protestation Rtns and Tax. Assess. | J. Gibson (ed.), Oxfordshire and North Berkshire Protestation Returns and Tax
Assessments, 1641–2 (ORS 59, 1994) |
| Queen's Coll. Mun. | Muniments of The Queen's College, Oxford |
| RCHM | Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (since 1999 part of
English Heritage) |
| RO | Record Office |
| RS | Rolls Series |
| Rec. Com. | Record Commission |
| Red Book Exch. (RS) | H. Hall (ed.), Red Book of the Exchequer (Rolls Series, 1896) |
| Reg. Regum Anglo-Norm. | H.W.C. Davies and others (eds), Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066–1154 (1913–69) |
| Rep. Com. Char. | Reports of the Commissioners for Charities (1819–40), indexed in Parl. Papers
1840 (279), xix (2) |
| Rot. Chart. | Rotuli Chartarum, 1199–1216 (Record Commission, 1837) |
| Rot. Cur. Reg. | Rotuli Curiae Regis, 6 Richard I to 1 John (Record Commission, 1812–18) |
| Rot. de Oblatis et Finibus | Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus (Record Commission, 1835) |
| Rot. Hund. | Rotuli Hundredorum temp. Hen. III & Edw. I (Record Commission, 1812–18) |
| Rot. Lib. | Rotuli de Liberate, regnante Johanne (Record Commission, 1844) |
| Rot. Litt. Claus. | Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum, 1204–27 (Record Commission, 1833–44) |
| Rot. Litt. Pat. | Rotuli Litterarum Patentium, 1201–16 (Record Commission, 1835) |
| Rot. Parl. | Rotuli Parliamentorum [1783] |
| s.a. | sub anno (under the year) |
| SMR | Oxfordshire Sites and Monuments Record, located in COS |
| Sanders, Eng. Baronies sch. | I.J. Sanders, English Baronies, 1086–1327 (Oxford, 1960) school |
| Secker's Corresp. | A.P. Jenkins (ed.), The Correspondence of Thomas Secker, bishop of Oxford
1737–58 (ORS 57, 1991) |
| Secker's Visit. | H.A. Lloyd Jukes (ed.), Articles of Enquiry at the Primary Visitation of Dr Thomas Secker, 1738 (ORS 38, 1957) |
| ser. | series |
| Schumer, Oxon. Forests | B. Schumer (ed.), Oxfordshire Forests 1246–1609 (ORS 64, 2004) |
| Schumer, Wychwood (1984 edn; 1999 edn) | The Evolution of Wychwood to 1400: Pioneers, Frontiers and Forests (University of Leicester, Department of English Local History Occasional Papers 6, 1984; revised edn Wychwood Press, 1999) |
| Skelton, Antiq. Oxon. | J. Skelton, Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire (Oxford, 1823) |
| Southwick Cart. sqq | K.A. Hanna (ed.), Cartularies of Southwick Priory (Hants Rec. Ser. 9–10, 1988–9) and pages (or folios) following |
| Subsidy 1526 | H.E. Salter (ed.), Subsidy Collected in the Diocese of Lincoln in 1526 (OHS 63) |
| Tax. Eccl. | Taxatio Ecclesiastica Anglie et Wallie . . . circa AD 1291 (Record Commission, 1801) |
| Thame Cart. | H.E. Salter (ed.), The Thame Cartulary (ORS 25–6, 1947–8) |
| Timms and Hicks, Brize Norton | K. Timms and C. Hicks, Old Brize Norton: Through the Eyes of Two Young Girls (n.p., 2002) |
| Trans. | Transactions |
| Univ. Brit. Dir. | Universal British Directory of Trade and Commerce (London, 1790–[1798]) |
| Univ. Coll. | University College, Oxford |
| VCH | Victoria County History |
| Valor Eccl. | Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII (Record Commission, 1810–34) |
| Visit. Dioc. Linc. | A. Hamilton Thompson (ed.), Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517–31 (LRS 33, 35, 37, 1940–7) |
| WODC | West Oxfordshire District Council |
| Wilb. Letter Bks | R.K. Pugh (ed.), The Letter Books of Samuel Wilberforce 1843–68 (ORS 47, 1969) |
| Wilb. Visit. | E.P. Baker (ed.), Bishop Wilberforce's Visitation Returns, 1854 (ORS 35, 1954) |
| Wood's Life | A. Clark (ed.), The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford
1632–95 (OHS 19, 21, 26, 30, 40, 1891–1900) |
| Young, Oxon. Agric. | A. Young, General View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire (London, 1813) |