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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 …
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 … were wont to sue with the city of Winchester at the sheriff's tourn and pay their share with the citizens 37 till Peter des …
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 … throughout the reign of Henry II and Richard I it was the sheriff, or a farmer under him, who rendered the farm, and in … the borough was simply a part of the county which the sheriff farmed. The difficulties of Hubert Walter and of King …
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 castle-guard rents were often collected by the sheriff and handed by him to the constable. 504 A court for …