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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… attributes 35½ hides to the villeins, inferring that the king had no demesne. 3 The Domesday entry records 7 demesne … Forest. 9 The size of the demesne on William Scudet's estate of 4½ hides in Bratton and Dilton 10 in 1086 is not … 18 there was a grange, haybarn, dairyhouse and sheep-house. On the other half, later called Westbury Seymour or …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… annually with an olive-coloured coat and waistcoat. Gibbs's poor relatives, if any, were to receive first … income on subscriptions to hospitals, sick clubs, etc., or on the provision of goods to needy persons. 59 In 1955 … facing the Warminster road had been converted into a house and shop and produced a rent of £25. The almshouses …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Salisbury were abolished. 92 The church was worth 50 s. in 1086. 93 In 1291 the value was £40. 94 In 1720 the … William of Westbury, serjant-at-law and a justice of the King's Bench. 12 The chapel was built by William and his … gathered a congregation of dissenters around him in his house in Westbury. 34 He died at Westbury in 1682 and was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Robert Willoughby, Lord de Broke (d. 1521) presumably in place of the former Thursday market. The Whitsun fair was … the Whitsun fair was said to consist of no more than one or two gingerbread stalls, 78 and by 1888 it had been … accruing from the markets and fairs, except from the mayor's fair, continued to belong to the lord of the manor until …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… some 160 acres of inclosed land in Westbury and a sheep house. 58 In 1570 Stephen Whitaker, already a considerable … 1603-4. The justices were obliged to order a relief of 40 s. a week for the distressed inhabitants, then said to be … men were no doubt only in a small way of business, but one or two were among the more important Wiltshire clothiers of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1334 there were besides the town of Westbury eleven vills or tithings liable for taxation. These were Bratton, … however, it probably comprised little more than Penleigh House and Farm and a few farm cottages. Bratton, Heywood, … the centre of the urban district. This forms the town's main street passing through the Market Place, continuing as …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to be one of the manors making up the demesne of Walter's son, another Walter Pavely. 34 On the second partition of … property except that it must eventually have passed to the house of Bonhommes at Edington, and so was re-united with the … in Brookway and Westbury, would be of no damage to the king, but would deprive Walter Pavely of a suit every three …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Westbury Manors MANORS. In 1086 the king, as successor to Queen Edith, held WESTBURY. 40 It could … begun before 1086, for by then William Scudet, the king's cook, held an estate of 4 hides which was to form later the … 79 who sold it in 161920, with the exception of Bitham House, a fulling mill called Bitham Mill, 80 and a close …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilkins, a clothier. 68 In 1624 the occupier was Anthony's son, William, 69 and in 1653 it was Richard Wilkins, fuller … he expressly reserved Bitham Mill and the adjoining Bitham House. 79 By 1772 the mill had passed to Granville Wheler, 80 … owned mills at Hawkeridge and Chalford. 84 Angel Mill, or its site at the junction of Church and Maristow Streets, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… manors of the Wessex kingdom, Westbury developed urban or semiurban institutions at a comparatively early date. … seal was acquired in 1591, 17 and a guildhall and court house existed by 1599. 18 So far as is known, these organs of … only formal. A steward of the borough, who until the 1830's was also the steward of the capital manor, presided with …