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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, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a market-town and parish, in the union and hundred of Melksham, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… Hungerford. co. Wilts, out of the impropriate rectories of Melksham, Durnford, and Netherhaven. Approved 22 June. 6. The …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Islington Rd, London, cm (1805). [D] Wheeler, C., King St, Melksham, Wilts., chairmaker (1839). [D] Wheeler, Charles, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… would put Warminster into competition with Devizes, Melksham, Chippenham, and Salisbury, and that they all had …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Owing to proceedings in Chancery the estate passed to John Melksham or Melsam, who died seised of it in 1487, leaving …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… there was serious rioting in Bradford, Trowbridge, and Melksham, Westbury apparently held aloof. 3 But in 1736 the …