Devizes Assize Court is a judicial building in Northgate Street in Devizes, a town in Wiltshire, England. The building, which is currently vacant and deteriorating...

Devizes (/dɪˈvaɪzɪz/) is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received...

The assizes (/əˈsaɪzɪz/), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they...

Council with a study into Devizes Assize Court in 2006–2007, and in 2018 supported the establishment of Devizes Assize Court Trust, a charity which bought...

Smith was put on trial for Richard's death on 9 August 1849, at the Devizes Assize Court. Eighteen witnesses were called, many of whom testified about her...

unopposed. The first provisional meeting of the council was held at Devizes Assize Court on 31 January 1889. The council formally came into its powers on...

intention to relocate the museum to the former Devizes Assize Court in the northwest quarter of Devizes town centre. In June 2023, Wiltshire Museum received...

marriage, of whom Francis was his reported favourite.: 298–301  At Devizes Assize Court, Constance Kent pleaded guilty, and her plea was accepted, so that...

functions of the county were discharged at Devizes Assize Court in the Summer and at Salisbury Assize Court in the Lent. Following the implementation of...

century, the judicial functions of the county were discharged at Devizes Assize Court in the summer and at Salisbury Guildhall in the lent. There was a...

Devizes and Malmesbury were garrisoned by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, for the Empress, but in 1138 Stephen seized the bishop and captured Devizes Castle...

cloth, to promote mercery. The first on record is the Assize of Cloth (also called the Assize of Measures), which was first introduced in the reign of...

Swindon, Chairman of Fredericks Wiltshire, and a Trustee of the Devizes Assize Courts Trust. He chaired the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust and the...

1918 by John Ellis and William Willis. He was convicted at the Assize Courts in Devizes, Wiltshire on 16 January 1918 for fatally shooting his roommate...

Encyclopædia Britannica considered Buckingham to be the county town. The county assize court sat at Bodmin, and the 1911 Britannica considered Bodmin to be the county...

invasion. As an emergency measure, he recreated a version of Henry II's Assize of Arms of 1181, with each shire creating a structure to mobilise local...

the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2011. Cadw. "Malpas Court (18285)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 6 October 2024. Historic...

of the Realm. This is the citation in The Statutes at Large. Clerks of Assize (Fees) Act 1698 (10 Will. 3. c. 12) Escape of Debtors from Prison Act 1702...

were made with 59 convicted at special commissions of assize and 68 at the January 1767 court of quarter sessions. Many were sentenced to death at the...

possible for bishops to build or control castles, such as the important Devizes Castle linked to the Bishop of Salisbury, although this practice was challenged...

sent to Ireland (Sweetman, i. 1563, 1572), in June 1230 was a justice for assize of arms in Norfolk and Suffolk (Shirley, i. 375), and in 1232 was engaged...

Partners make Shredded Wheat and Shreddies at Staverton, near Trowbridge. In Devizes is the Wadworth Brewery. Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury attracts many...

Geo. 3. (U.K.) c. 88 2 July 1801 An Act for providing Accommodations in Assize Towns for the Judges in Ireland, where such Accommodations are not already...

town of the Devizes, to the house known by the name of The Green Man, in Seend, in the county of Wilts; and from Rowde Ford, through the Devizes market-place...

town of the Devizes, to the house known by the name of The Green Man, in Seend, in the county of Wilts; and from Rowde Ford, through the Devizes market-place...

Geo. 1. c. 28) Westminster Bridge Act 1738 (12 Geo. 2. c. 33) Clerks of Assize (Fees) Act 1698 (10 Will. 3. c. 12) Rodburgh and Birdlip Road Act 1800 (39...

Militia. During the 19th Century it was used as judges' lodgings for the Assize Court, and then as the Lower Barracks were developed in that part of the city...