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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… years at the end of the 13th century varied between 1 9 s. 10 d. and 2 11 s. 5 In 12934 it came to 1 9 s. 6 A conflict over market … 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
… John confirmed it in almost the same words, 5 and for John's confirmation the burgesses of the Guild Merchant paid the … 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
… and dubbers were at one time fairly important in the town's industry. Records of the last two decades of the 13th … linen cloth formed part of the payment, 20 and in 1249 the Sheriff of Wiltshire was ordered to obtain 2,000 ells of … to identify two dyers living in Wilton in the 1330's, William le Fox 23 and John le Crocker; 24 it appears that …
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 … 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 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 …
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 … who died there in 1754. He was son of Sir William Benson, sheriff of London. In the reign of Queen Ann he published a …
Survey of London
… land in Southwark extending from the precincts of St. Mary's Church on the east to the Manor of Paris Garden (the end of … jurisdiction, became known as the Bishop of Winchester's (or later the Clink) Liberty. Plots of ground along … See of Winchester In the 13th century the Bishop's land is referred to as "Southwark Marsh" and the greater …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… table 17 ft. in diameter, locally known as 'King Arthur's Round Table,' with a Tudor rose in the centre and painted … 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. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in his reign, characteristically ignoring his predecessor's charter, doubled the number of days allowed by his … for current expenses, sealed up by the subescheator and sheriff. At Redbridge and the Romsey bridge over the Test … belonging to his mystery without making agreement with the sheriff every year; no freeman could be attainted by a fuller …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… purposes; the Cathedral Close as well as St. Mary's College and Wolvesey Palace (previously extra-parochial) … boundary to include on the north, part of Abbot's Barton, which was added to the parish of St. Bartholomew … the other citizens; ibid. 131. Moreover, Robert Daundely, Sheriff of Hampshire, was bidden to stay with divers …