By the Rev. Canon J. £. Jackson. 107 
Papers at Longleat and now used by his kind permission. Turned 
(for the sake of more popular reading) into English, and a number 
of formal repetitions being left out, it presents the official record of 
a “ Sheriff’s Turn:” viz., the account rendered to the Crown, by the 
Sheriff of Wilts, after he had, by himself or Deputy, visited the 
various places in Wilts, which in early days, had to be visited, in 
order to receive from the County of Wilts, such payments as were 
due to the Exchequer. It will be seen that out of the fifteen Hun- 
dreds in Wiltshire mentioned in it, there are several places appointed 
for the Meeting of the Sheriff’s Court which it would now be very 
difficult if not impossible to identify. 
The fifteen Hundreds, and the localities in each appointed for the 
holding of the Court, were as follows. 
Swanburgh . . held “there.” 
Kyngbridge . .. 7  “‘there.” 
Cadworth .:. at “Wilton.” 
Chalke . . . at “Housthornys.” 
Doneworth . . at “Staple.” 
Wermester . . at “Ilegh.” 
Brench and Doll * Wirdscliff.” 
Heightesbury . at “Ilegh.” 
Wherwells down “ there.” 
Westbury .. “there.” 
Malmesbury. . at “Coufold—(Colepark),. 
Frustfield . . “there.” 
Chippenham. . “there.” 
Bradford. . . at Lye—(Bradford Leigh), 
Caudon . . . “there.” 
But, “where,” one may ask, are the positive localities, great or 
small,now called “Swanborough,” “ Kyngbridge,” “ Housethornys,” 
« Wherwell’s Down,” or “ Wirdscliff”? They, or some of them, 
may be and very possibly are, capable of being traditionally pointed 
out, but they do not appear upon any Wiltshire Map that I have 
ever seen. 
The Place of Meeting, for the Two Hundreds of Heytesbury and 
~ Warminster was at “ Ilegh.” This spot is about two miles south of 
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