This study is complicated by the failure of many sources to distinguish between Weald residents and those of Bampton. Some sources that do make the distinction do not do so consistently. The ones that help most are: –

• The Bampton parish register. In principle this should particularly helpful as it records people more or less regardless of the their wealth or social standing. Unfortunately for most of the eighteenth century, they do not note when the person concerned comes from Weald and – for the rest of the period – I suspect that the note was missed on a proportion of the events. We are left with the period 1680-1720, when the following names appear: –
  Arpud, Carter, Church, Corduwell, Crippes, Davis, Field, Grimshaw, Hansell, Horne, Ivens, Joyes, Matthews, Neall, Newpot, Pawlin/Poulling, Poole, Sadler, Steevens, Ward, Wiggans;
  and the period from 1813-1820, when the following names appear: –
  Bartlett, Baston, Brooks, Castle, Chandler, Clinch, Coxhead, Eltham, Falkner, Funter, Haines, Hicks, Horne, Howes, Joynes, Lake, Lambeth, Leake, Oaks, Orpwood, Radbone, Tanner, Townsend, Watts, White, Winter.
• The poll book for the 1754 election. The election was famous at the time for efforts taken by the two sides to influence the voters (see this note). Luckily for us the individual votes were recorded and made available by at least two publishers. These poll books are available at many specialist libraries and can be consulted on Ancestry. Unluckily, only substantial yeomen had the vote and by no means all of them bothered to make the trip to Oxford to record a vote. We are left with five Weald residents (Henry, John and Edward CHURCH, William SEARY and David WATTS). They all voted for the Tories. In addition a resident of Leafield (John HARRIS) voted – for the Whigs – on the basis of owning land in Weald.
• The wills proved in the various Oxfordshire courts in the eighteenth century. These were not normally proved for people with little or no land, so there is a strong bias to the better off. The Oxfordshire Wills Index – currently available on FindMyPast – has the following names for testators from 1680 to 1820:-
  Baston, Beckingsale, Carter, Church, Collingwood, Cripps, Fowler, Hall, Green, Lambeth, Lardner, Leake, May, Pawling, Poole, Sandelands, Seary, Traymayne, Townsend, Wainwright, Watts.
• A survey of the estates of the Earl of Shrewsbury drawn up Thomas Bainbridge in 1789. This is in the British Library [reference C.7.e.16(3)]. This lists, and shows on a map, the lands of the Earl with the names of the tenants. Most of the Earl’s land in Bampton parish was in fact in Weald.
• The enclosure award of 1821