Identifier: wiltshirenotesqu1118unse (find matches)
Title: Wiltshire notes and queries
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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liberties of the city, andtaxed accordingly. In June 1639 his Majestys command wassent to the Dean and Chapter by the Archbishop of Canterburythat all mechanics should be displaced from the Close and otherconsecrated places ; notwithstanding, many persons engaged intrade, and amongst them tailors, strangers, and no membersof the Company, have by connivance crept into the Close again,and there practise their trade, to the ruin of petitioners and theirfamilies, consisting of above 300 persons, who ever since theirincorporation have paid 61. yearly to the Crown, besides relievingaged and impotent persons dependent upon them : they pray thatthe Dean and Chapter may be called upon to answer, and forconsideration and relief. On July 8th, same year, an order was apparently issued for theattendance of William Bowles and others to give evidence inthe cause ; but beyond this no further reference appears in theCalendar of the Papers of the House of Lords, as given by theHist. MSS. Commission. C.
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Malmesbury Market-Cross. 33 Malmesbury Market-Cross.—The annexed illustration is froman old engraving published very early in the present century TheCross itself is an interesting object, and is a good exampleof thesestructures. It is of Perpendicular design of probably early 16thcentury. Leland in his Itinerary (temp. Hen. VIII) thus describesit: There is a right fair and costly peace of workmanship in themarket-place, made al of stone, and curiously voulted for pouremarket folkes to stand dry when rayne cummeth. There be 8gret pillars, and 8 open arches; and the work is S square.One great pillar in the midle beareth up the voulte. The menof the tonne made this peace of work in hominum memorialBritton (1814) says that one of the niches on the side filled withfigures, is a representation of the Crucifixion. St. Lawrence anda mitred bishop occupy other niches. The Cross was repaired atthe end of the last century by the Earl of Suffolk and Lady North-wick. Prayers to Saints.—Old cus

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