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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… that there were formerly twelve or more parish churches of Wilton, if accurate, must be taken to include not only the … but also its suburbs. The disappearance or total ruin of these churches generally precludes an accurate description of their architecture and appearance. It is possible, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… agriculture and mills MARKETS AND FAIRS The existence of a market in Wilton probably dates from the Anglo-Saxon … merchants were attached to answer the king on charge of contempt, and of depriving the king of the tolls and customs … the number and variety of these merchants, who acted in contempt of the king and went to the Salisbury market, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… town government MEDIEVAL TOWN GOVERNMENT In the reign of Henry I the leading burgesses secured the right to … time between 1121 and 1133, possibly in 1121. 2 The grant of a charter was obviously of benefit to the town as a whole, … craft guild of the tailors, for their consent to the guild ordinances was necessary, and it was the mayor and his …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… MEDIEVAL TRADE AND INDUSTRY The economic importance of Wilton in the postConquest period attracted a number of Jews who settled there; this Jewish community evidently … 1483 seven tailors were fined for contravention of guild ordinances. 18 Sixteenth-century town records contain no …
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
… Wiltshire Wiltshire Place name Date of inception of market The date of the charter, grant or first recorded mention of the market …
The Environs of London
… WIMBLEDON. Name. It is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently written Wymbaldon and Wymbeldon, was derived from one of its early proprietors. I have seen ancient records in which the name of Wimbaldus occurs. Dune in the Saxon language signifies a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from … parliaments at Winchester, in one of which the celebrated ordinances, afterwards called the Statutes of Winchester, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Castle CASTLE The County Hall, the great Hall of Winchester where the first Parliaments of England were held, is the only remaining portion of the … whatever right they heldand in 1683 an entry among their ordinances notes that his majesty had been pleased to take …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Churches CHURCHES The church of ST. BARTHOLOMEW, near the remains of Hyde Abbey, consists of chancel 28 ft. 1 in. by 18 ft. 4 … shop near the ground sometime Ode church' in 1668 (Bk. of Ordinances sub anno [Winton Corp. Doc.]). In 1580 the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served … of the company any who should not be conformable to their ordinances. No one except of the company of brewers was to …