Two important turnpike trusts, based in Amesbury and Fisherton Anger (Salisbury), were authorised in 1761 to take responsibility for long stretches
Arable farming on the Wiltshire chalklands, such as Codford, continued until the 19th century to be organised on the basis of enormous open fields,
Sometime in the 1800s, a small number of largely impoverished Italians, some from the mountainous regions of Northern Italy (mainly around Tuscany)
By 1766 Bishop Newton recorded a total of 42 Jews in the city, 40 of whom lived in Temple.
One of the purposes of the inventory was to determine the probate fees, so the inventory was valued.
