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Alumni Oxonienses
… (as son and heir of John, of Astley, co. Worcester, esq.), sheriff Worcestershire 1641, a zealous royalist, knighted 26 … Coll., matric. 1 April, 1636, aged 15; of Tickencote, sheriff Rutland 1662, knighted 15 July, 1642; died 1663. … 20 May, 1664, aged 21; of Preston Brockhurst, Salop, high sheriff 1692, student of Gray's Inn 1664; brother of Richard …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the 17th century when, through the influence of the high sheriff, it was removed to Devizes. 17 Of each Wiltshire …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the Wilton markets to those of Salisbury, and ordered the sheriff to make public proclamation in Wilton, Salisbury, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… behalf of the king as ultimate lord of the borough by the sheriff, who stated that this right had been exercised by the king for as long as he had been sheriff. Brewing money ( breugabulum, brugeld) was perhaps …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… linen cloth formed part of the payment, 20 and in 1249 the Sheriff of Wiltshire was ordered to obtain 2,000 ells of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… be moved to Devizes, but the king in a letter to the high sheriff forbade this in view of the ancient privileges and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton would have to put in someone chosen by the high sheriff, who had threatened otherwise to remove the county …
The Environs of London
… who died there in 1754. He was son of Sir William Benson, sheriff of London. In the reign of Queen Ann he published a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Castle. 20 Henry III in December 1221 ordered the sheriff to cause the hall of Winchester Castle to be … Tichborne 37 in reward for his zealous services as High Sheriff of Hampshire in the cause of the king's accession. … Ibid. 17 Hen. II, 401. This was one of the years when the sheriff who was responsible for the farm of the city rendered …