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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the south by the Lesser Ouse, which separates it from the county of Suffolk; it comprises by measurement 2600 acres. … an eminent religious establishment, and giving name to the county; the town had also a mint. Wilton is stated by Camden … successively occupied it during the earlier periods of history. Of these, the stupendous monument of Stonehenge, two …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Apart from this nothing is known of its earlier or later history, and its site cannot be identified. While so many of … Hoare, Mod. Wilts. Branch and Dole, 75. Ibid. 756. The history of Netherhampton is reserved for treatment under the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… DECLINE The outstanding feature of the later medieval history of Wilton is the rapid decline of the borough between … up to the 13th century. 4 Wilton remained the seat of the county court throughout the Middle Ages, and the justices of the eyre always sat first in the county court at Wilton. 5 In addition to its purely …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Early history EARLY HISTORY Wilton situated at a strategic point on the river … The importance of Wilton in the early ecclesiastical history of Wiltshire is of necessity obscure, since the very …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Malmesbury, Bradford-on-Avon, and other places in the county. John Twyford, one of the leading Wilton clothiers, … clothiers, important only in their own limited sphere. The history of the unnumbered weavers of the town is of necessity … 18th century Wilton, in common with other centres of the county, developed various lines of fancy cloth in addition to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Herbert, who bought it from Sir Giles Poole. The early history of this manor is obscure, but it may have been among …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… borough and by no means indicative of vitality. C. Roth, History of the Jews in Eng. 91. Cal. Close, 12569, 357. C. … 'English towns with their 13th-century characteristics' ( History Teachers' Miscellany v), 9. K. B. 27/171 m. 57. S. C. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in consequence of this that during the interregnum the county court was removed from Wilton, only returning at the … from the answers that little was known of Wilton's past history before the late 15th century when the Corporation … Sessions Wilton petitioned for a general tax upon the county or adjacent parts; it was ordered that 30 should be …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… high sheriff, who had threatened otherwise to remove the county court to Devizes; 19 and Peter Bathurst's threat in … of two fairs, and how he had obtained the return of the county court from Devizes to Wilton, as well as making gifts …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 41. Ibid. 42. Ibid. 1012, 3638. Ibid. 4445. See p. 33. The history of St. Giles's Hospital is given in V.C.H. Wilts. …