Feoffment

parties: 1 the Commissioners of the Sewers 2 Oxford University and Corporation 3 Folly Bridge Trustees 4 William Henry Taunton of Oxford gentleman and Percival Walsh of Oxford gentleman [trustees] property: the Wharf House in Oxford St Aldates [adjoining the north end of Folly Bridge] notes: by an Act of 1623-4 commissioners [called Commissioners of Sewers] were appointed to make the River Thames navigable between Burcot and Oxford [the Commissioners of Sewers] and purchased various properties for the purpose of which the Wharf House was now required for the Folly Bridge improvement