Sorry - I just don't know
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-----Original Message-----
From: From: Local-History list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Inui Hideaki
Sent: 14 January 2008 11:23
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LOCAL-HISTORY] 'close' of New Sarum?
I greatly appreciate your kindness.
By the way, when exactly did the abolishment of Bishop & Dean there?
Hideaki
2008/1/14, GATLEY David A <[log in to unmask]>:
> Old Sarum if I recall correctly was for parliamentary purposes a
> deserted area of less than an hectaire situated a few kilometres from
> the modern town of Salisbury.
>
> No one lived there yet it returned till (1832?) two MPs!!!
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> I did stop off at the place in 1975 and again in 1976 (on what was
> then the hottest day of the century) whilst on a tour to visit
Stonehenge.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: From: Local-History list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Peter King
> Sent: 14 January 2008 09:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [LOCAL-HISTORY] 'close' of New Sarum?
>
> It might well refer to the Cathedral Close, that is the precinct
> containing the Cathedral and the houses of the Cathedral Clergy. This
> is still the term used for it. New Sarum is of course Salisbury.
>
> I presume a close borough is one where one or two landowners
> effectively controlled the Parliamentary elections from it. I doubt
> that would apply to Salisbury.
>
> Peter King
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: From: Local-History list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Hideaki Inui
> Sent: 14 January 2008 09:16
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 'close' of New Sarum?
>
>
> To All,
>
> I wonder if you could tell me the meaning of 'close' of New Sarum
> found in the mid-17th cen.
> document (QS). ('close' meant 'close borough'?)
>
> Hideaki
>
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