Badbury-Bradford on Avon

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Scope and Content

Badbury-Bradford on Avon (mounts, pp.218). Includes:- A survey of Biddestone farm, 18th century, p.18; Severall Proceedings in Parliament (14-21 Feb.1649), p.34; Remarks ... (1831), by the Rev. Thomas Jervis to correct the account of the death (in 1778) of his pupil, Lord William Granville Petty (given by the Rev. R.Warren in his Literary Recollections), p.38; copy by Jackson of an old painting of Savernake Forest House (destroyed by fire, 1861), p.91; inspeximus of the Forest of Braden, 10 Jas.I, p.129; engravings of Bradenstoke Priory, pp.145-59, 177; rent roll and survey of the manor of Bradenstoke, 17th century, p.170; photograph of an old painting of Germanicus Sheppard and accounts of his mysterious death, p.179; letter from Goddard Smith relating to Bradenstoke property and his family, 1742, p.182; Bradford on Avon: grant of rents by Edward Norton to found a grammar school, 1584, p.201, and rent accounts for lands of Sir Francis Walsingham in Bradford, 1583.

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