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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… sheep, 36 and at about the beginning of the 18th Jeffery Whitaker had well over 100 sheep-leazes at Bratton. 37 The … estates as did Abraham Ludlow, of Heywood House, and John Whitaker, of Fairwood, there were a notable number of small …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… FOR THE POOR OF BRATTON. Among the bequests of Jeffery Whitaker, in his will dated 1775, 67 £50 were assigned for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… among these prosperous clothiers were the families of Whitaker and Phipps. The fortunes of the Whitaker family may have been founded by John, one of the … clothiers of the late 15th century. 57 In c. 1545 Richard Whitaker, likewise a clothier, had some 160 acres of inclosed …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… brick front. Between 1718 and c. 1789 members of the Whitaker family conducted a boarding school for boys in the … of the region, see Fry, op. cit. 21922. Ex inf. Miss J. S. Whitaker, Bratton. Thanks are due to Miss Whitaker for much help with this section. See p. 174. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a separate estate until the 17th century. In 1682 Jeffery Whitaker paid rent to the lord of the manor of Bratton for Redlands, 43 and in 1685 Henry Whitaker devised the lease of Redlands to his son Thomas. 44 In 1740 both Mrs. Susannah Whitaker and John Whitaker Hinton were assessed for landtax …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Dyer. 76 Dyer conveyed it in the same year to Stephen Whitaker 77 on whose death in 1576 it passed to his son … the manor was leased to William Lovell, and later to John Whitaker, but in 1551 the chapter made another lease to … Lord Bath sold his estate in Bratton. 53 Members of the Whitaker family, who leased most of the Bratton Grange …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the manor of Westbury Stourton belonged in 1573 to William Whitaker, grandson of Stephen Whitaker, who had acquired the manor in 1570. 78 It was then … all things fitted for the dressing of cloth. When William Whitaker sold the manor in 1619-20 to Sir James Ley, he …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… bk. of the surveyors of the highways penes Miss J. S. Whitaker, Bratton, in 1960. There are 2 acct. bks. of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a month at Bratton in the house of Jeffery and Catherine Whitaker. Soon afterwards services were held once a … congregation moved to a schoolroom belonging to Jeffery Whitaker. 49 In 1733 a site was given on which a chapel was … The chapel benefits from a number of bequests. Jeffery Whitaker, by his will, proved 1775, gave £350 and a house …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… expressed by the word Walalh; and "no term," observes Dr. Whitaker, "more strikingly descriptive could have been …