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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Fairs and markets FAIRS AND MARKETS. A weekly market … Nov.) was granted to Walter Pavely, lord of the manor of Westbury, in 1252. 61 In 1291 a further grant was made to the … two daughters of John St. Lo who inherited the manor of Westbury with its appurtenant hamlets. 64 In 1460 a market on …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Industry and trade INDUSTRY AND TRADE. Like the other towns in the basin of the Bradford Avon, Westbury emerged as a centre of the cloth industry of that … towards the end of the 15th century. 50 As early as 1433 a Westbury clothier, William Gawen, was transacting …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Introduction WESTBURY The ancient parish of Westbury 1 was co-extensive with the hundred. 2 It was … It remained a single parish, with the town of Westbury roughly in the centre, until the late 19th century, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Lesser estates LESSER ESTATES. Land at HEADINGHILL … stocked for Reynold Pavely when he acquired the manor of Westbury in 1173. 32 On the death of Walter Pavely in 1256 … was named as one of the estates making up the manor of Westbury, 33 and in 1323 it was said to be one of the manors …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Manors MANORS. In 1086 the king, as successor to Queen Edith, held WESTBURY. 40 It could thus later claim to be ancient demesne … of Le Pr (dp. Seine-Infrieur) later formed the manor of Westbury Priory. 46 The rest of Defuble's land was regranted …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Mills MILLS. At the time of the Domesday Survey there were six mills on the capital manor of Westbury. 62 In 1226-7 the grant of a mill, formerly … 65 A fulling mill at Brook was leased by Henry Long, a Westbury clothier, in c. 1539. 66 When the manor of Brook was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Parish government and public services PARISH … Like many other royal manors of the Wessex kingdom, Westbury developed urban or semiurban institutions at a … number of small enclaves within it. Indeed at no time are 'Westbury' and 'the borough of Westbury' to be equated. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Parliamentary representation PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION. Westbury first sent representatives to Parliament in 1448, … the case in most of the other Wiltshire boroughs. 96 At Westbury the first signs of domination by a single influence …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. Westbury lies in that area along the Wiltshire-Somerset … as their preacher. 29 Hunton, ejected from the living of Westbury in 1662, was licensed to preach in 1672 as a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. Walter Clark of Westbury Hundred was presented as a popish recusant in 1676 … West End in 1938. 27 W.R.O. Q. Sess. R. Trin. 1676, 1680, Westbury Presentments. E 377/73. W.R.O. Q. Sess. R. Trin. …