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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… invasion of 1003 penetrated into Wiltshire, and Sweyn's army plundered and burnt Wilton before going on to Old … 247. Hoare, Mod. Wilts. Branch and Dole, 66. H. de S. Shortt, 'Bibliography of Wilts. Coins in early Medieval …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and serjeant of the mace; William Tarrant acted as queen's bailiff in 1595 and succeeding years; Roger Tarrant was queen's bailiff in 1585 and Steward of the Guild Merchant by 1591; … onwards a rapid and apparently final decline of Wilton's cloth industry took place, so that by 1840 only 10 of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the fine for refusing to act as mayor was reduced to 40 s., 5 but in 1585 it was agreed that whoever bore the office … were to be worn on every feast day under penalty of 1 s. fine. 8 These examples show the extent to which the civic … borough corporations that the closing years of Charles II's reign witnessed resulted at Wilton in the surrender of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… remove the county court to Devizes; 19 and Peter Bathurst's threat in 1710 to deprive Wilton flannel workers of their … 264. Names of parliamentary burgesses from Retn. of M.P.s 12131702, and unless otherwise stated, information about … Acct. of Steward of Guild Merchant, 334 Hen. VI. Brown's expenses while engaged upon legal business at New Salisbury …
The Environs of London
… that this calculation includes 800 acres of Lord Spencer's park, of which 600 are pasture and 200 arable. Two hundred … ground swampy 1. Wimbledon is charged the sum of 471 l. 8 s. to the land-tax, which, in the year 1791, was at the rate … Anne and the Earl of Worcester, Lord Privie-Seal, being witnesses; and the Lord Bishop of London administered the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in his reign, characteristically ignoring his predecessor's charter, doubled the number of days allowed by his … year 1162 we have a hint of the extension of the bishop's fair from the crest of St. Giles Down toward the Eastgate … see are recorded to have reached the great sum of 146 8 s. 7 d. It is doubtful whether at any later period they …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 2 and blinding. This law may well have been the Conqueror's. In the reign of his youngest son we hear 3 of a fine paid … 9 The proceedings customary at Winchester for the landlord's recovery of the land when rent was in arrear are of … Browning, 43 'tunc aldermannus dicti vici de Wode Strete,' witnesses a conveyance of the old Jewish burying-ground in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… provides, are that fourteen of the burgesses paid 25 s. to the abbey of Romsey, 9 that the abbey of Wherwell held … inhabitants of the suburb of Winchester used to pay 12 s. 11 d. to the king as of his manor of Basingstoke. 11 The … the survey. In a document of the same reign (Henry I) the witnesses are Godwine and Geoffrey, reeves of Winchester, and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Archbishop of Canterbury, who to the Bishop of Salisbury's claim that Windsor Castle was in his diocese successfully … 11267, when David, King of Scotland, came here as Henry's guest. King David swore allegiance to the Empress Maud as the king's heir, 16 and the same oath was taken by the English …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the inclusion (from Wisbech Borough) of the hamlet of Ring's End, on the Nene opposite Guyhirn. Although it is … At the later date the total rents amounted to 45 5 s. 6 d. 18 As usual in the 14th century, a decline in … is evident. In 1391 the rents amounted to only 37 12 s. 6 d. By this time a good deal of reclamation had been …