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Appendix 2

Important dates including Quarter and Cross-Quarter days:-

Candlemas ..........................................14 February ..................Cross Quarter-day (from 1753= 2 Feb)

Our Lady Day .....................................25 March...................... Quarter-day

Holyrood ...............................................3 May.......................... Cross Quarter-day

Midsummer-day ...................................6 July.......................... Quarter-day (from 1753=24 June)

Lammas ...............................................12 August..................... Cross Quarter-day (from 1753 =1 Aug.)

Assumption of the Blessed Mary ..15 August

St. Bartholomews ..............................24 August

Michaelmas .......................................29 September.................. Quarter-day

Martinmas......................................... 11 November ...................Cross Quarter-day

Christmas ..........................................25 December. ...................Quarter-day

By an Act of Parliament the new year began on the 1st of January in 1753 instead of the 25th of March. In this book all the dates in the family trees from January the 1st to the 24th of March are given both years [eg. Thomas Huxeley [36] baptised 16 February 1616/7 (p394).

Archbishops of Canterbury

-1575 .........Mathew Parker

1575-83 .....Edmund Grindal

1583-1604 .John Whitgift

1604-10..... Richard Bancroft

1611-33 .....George Abbott

1633-45 .....William Laud

Episcopacy abolished 1645-1660

Periods of Architecture

Norman 1050-1200

Early English 1150-1300

Decorated 1250-1400

Perpendicular 1350-1500

The Bushel:

In  Henry VII's reign the standard bushel was called  a  Winchester,  which  was a dry measure of 8 gallons  (4  pecks).  The bushel  measure  was a round wooden container and when  full  and shaken  down a wooden strike was passed across to level the contents.  If these were not shaken then the purchaser could  loose enough  to make a loaf. This measure lasted until 1826  when  the smaller  Imperial bushel was introduced. Chester had  32  gallons per  bushel and Stanford 16 gallons. There seems to be no  method by which Cropredy's bushel could be worked out. Any calculations have had to be made with the Winchester measure in the absence of any written evidence of local variations.