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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Beyond Lake the road climbs again steeply among trees, and for a short distance there is a sheer drop to the river some … 1890. While at Lake he gained an international reputation for his scientific work on light and colour. 14 Lord … wealthy Scottish landowner and industrialist, 15 was M.P. for Salisbury, 190620. His wife was active in artistic and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the guild church, it was often used as the assembly place for the burgesses, particularly at the time of the election … the former church fell into decay. The sketch of Wilton for the first Pembroke Survey 5 does not show this church, so … was St. Michael's, South Street, which existed in 1200, for in that year Henry, son of Gospatrick of Wilton, who was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… not farm the borough, but accounted ut custos to the Crown for all dues. The borough yielded 50, and had yielded 22 when … Hervey's efficiency, or his severity, can only be a matter for speculation. In 11945 the borough appears to have been … of Ditchampton. 21 Before 1086 Washern paid geld for 8 hides and Ugford for 4 hides; while the abbey estate of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in Wilton probably dates from the Anglo-Saxon period, for conditions of local trade, as shewn above, were … the borough at least as early as the reign of Henry III, for Edward I spoke of a charter of his ancestors to this … in wax and other merchandise, 6 skinners, 5 sellers of hides, 4 men dealing in oxen and other animals, 6 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… of Wratworth, later Ratford, which was assessed at 5 hides in Domesday Book. The approximate site is presumably … enclosing a bull's eye and surmounted by a timber cupola for the bell. The E. wall rises to a similar pediment; below … (Plate 112), 1501/2, figure of priest in vestments scored for enamel inlay, with mutilated prayer scroll, picture of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1874. 95 Further road improvements, planned in 1937-8 for a western relief road and London-Plymouth road to bypass … inspectors, a register, and two surveyors, and maintained weights and beams, the shambles, and the market house with … for receiving all tolls. The trustees, however, controlled weights and measures. 7 The farm of the town market and fairs …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the coast and served by ancient roads, was predestined for the haunt of custom, quickened later by all the demands … hill of Winchester.' Henry I extended the fair-time for a further five days in exchange for lands taken from the … probable that the northern cities may have sent wool and hides, though Hampshire and the neighbouring counties …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… west sokes, or suburbs, which entirely surrounded it, were for long considered part of the city, so that at the inquiry … Act of 1835 the parliamentary boundary was taken to hold for municipal purposes; the Cathedral Close as well as St. … city chest, the bronze moot horn, some of the old standard weights and measures and a miscellaneous collection of arms, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… resting-place of the society. In this state they remained for a century and a-half without addition. At the Dissolution … on the east, which was eventually annexed by the warden for his house and garden; its Commoners found extended premises in the Sustern Spital, a hospital for women, a dependency of the monastery on the west, and the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the king's demesne in the time of Edward the Confessor, 'for the king wished to have thence the full amount that King … sixty-three had been evicted by the Conqueror to make room for the 'king's house' or palace 15; the remaining … tanner, was at the same time ordered to bring certain hides to the Guildhall which the searchers and sealers would …