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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
… and extent of lands held by John Ward, and others, in Melksham Forest, co. Wilts. Total, 70 acres; fines, 104 l. 6 … Ernley, and others, the King's tenants, in Chippenham and Melksham forests, co. Wilts. Latin. [Jan.] 2. Bill, by Att. … and others, the King's tenants, in Chippenham and Melksham forests, co. Wilts. Total, 590 acres; fines, 754 l. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Park. The manor house was not inhabited in May 1821. Melksham. Increase partly attributed to the discovery of a … for the chapelry of Semington included 179 persons in Melksham Union Workhouse. Bedwyn, Great. Included 5 persons … for the chapelry of Semington included 192 persons in the Melksham Union Workhouse. Decrease in Steeple Ashton and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 'Spanish' was fine cloth. 86 Bradford, Trowbridge, and Melksham were pre-eminently the Spanish cloth towns, but even … 'Mount Mill', and Norton (Norton Bavant). Westbury. Melksham and Seend, and South Newton. Slaughterford and … In November there was rioting in Bradford, Trowbridge, Melksham, and Frome, and a man was killed in Wiltshire when …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… down by 1972. Devizes, formerly a mission attached to Melksham, became the head of a circuit in 1828. 419 It so …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was turnpiked as far as West Lavington in 17501 and the Melksham road as far as Seend at the same time. 50 Thus by … them, as they approached the town, better still. 52 The Melksham and Chippenham roads, which now part company at the … now marked by the Bath Road bridge over the canal. The Melksham road ran along the line of the present St. Joseph's …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Usually it was below Wilton and above Salisbury and Melksham. 3 In 1212, with Marlborough, Salisbury, and Wilton, … in Pans Lane. 288 By fusion with a similar company in Melksham this became the Wilts. United Dairies, Ltd., in 1897 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… William de Wilton, organist, about 1200. 45 About 1220 Melksham church, the gift of King John in 1200, was granted … churches of Bishop's Cannings, Britford, Old Salisbury, Melksham, and Alton St. Pancras are mentioned. Some churches … farmers, has been found at Hilton in 1348, and a layman at Melksham in 1358. 252 The residentiaries as a body assumed …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… southern fringe of the Avon valley south of Bradford and Melksham. From its centre, the village of Steeple Ashton, it … to Semington Brook, another tributary of the Avon, near Melksham. A detached outlier of the hundred, part of Tilshead … had forsaken the villages for Westbury, Trowbridge, and Melksham, but weaving and spinning for the town clothiers …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in the south-west of the county in an area stretching from Melksham to Ludwell (in Donhead St. Mary) and from Urchfont … inquiries at Devizes, and so, it seems, did those for Melksham hundred. On the other hand the Malmesbury hundred … In 1358: Cal. Pat. 135861, 149. Perhaps John Sawyer of Melksham, arrested by the constable's lieutenant and kept in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to the hundred of Warminster and 7 to the hundred of Melksham. The development of the industry in the extreme … Ashton, Keevil, Devizes, Westbury, Warminster, Heytesbury, Melksham, Broughton Gifford, Lacock, Chippenham, Calne, …