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Facts relating to Marlborough. 



Hundred de Swanborough. 





Upliavon. 



Ela Countess of Warwick. 



Manningford and Wifleford. 



John do Bohun. 



Awclton. 



The Prior of Winton. 



Wilcot. 



The Prior of Brad on -Stoke. 



Hundred de Thorhull. 





Badbury 



Abbot of Glaston. 



Hinton, (Little). 



Prior of Winton. 



Wan borough.* 



Stephen Longespee.f 



Draycot, (Foliot), 



Sampson Foliot. 



Brom, (Broome q.). 



The Prior of Marteny. 



Hundred de Werminster, 





Werminster. 



John Mauduit. 



Corsley. 



The Prioress of Studley. 



Hundred de Whorwelsdown. 





For this Hundred. 



The Abbess of Romsey. 



Hundred de Westbury. 





For this Hundred. 



Reginald de Pavely. 



Hundred de Wonder dich. 





For this Hundred. 



The Bishop of Salisbury. 



Borough of Wilton. 



The bailiff of the Earl of Cornwall there.J 



Down to the time of the Municipal Corporation Act in 1835, in 

 many cities and towns, Recorders had the power of life and death ; 

 as by charter they were authorized to try all felonies whether 

 capital or not, except murder ; and down to that time the Recorders 

 of Bristol and Oxford, and no doubt some others, could try murder. 

 And in the year 1835 Mrs. Burdock was tried before Sir Charles 

 Wetherall, as Recorder of Bristol, for the murder of her husband 

 and was convicted and executed. 



* I am told by the Rev. T. Etty, Vicar of Wanborough, that the junction of the four roads which 

 lead from Aldbourn to Lower Wanborough, and from Little Hinton to Upper Wanborough is called 

 Callis Hill, supposed to be a corruption of Gallows Hill. 



t Justiciar of Ireland and brother of William Earl of Salisbury whose monument is in the nave 

 of Salisbury Cathedral. 



tit appears from the Placita de Quo Warranto [p. 795. et. seq.] that in 8 Edw. I. (1280) William 

 de Giselham the King's Attorney General filed Quo Warranto informations against the abbot of 

 Malmesbury, the abbot of Reading, William de Valence, Walter de Paveley, the Bishop of Salisbury, 

 the abbot of Glastonbury, Sampson Foliot, calling on each respectively to show (inter alia) by what 

 authority " habet furcas " [he has a gallows]. Every one of these defendants substantiated his right 

 to this important privilege ; some by the production of their charters when they pleaded to the 

 informations, the others on trials. In some instances no Quo Warranto information was necessary 

 as it was found by the Juries in their presentments that the franchise claimed had been granted to 

 the owner of it by a Sovereign whom they named. 



