Summaries of meetings held by our Newbury local team
Around 1820 the Prince Regent, about to become George IV, decided that Windsor Castle should be rebuilt as a royal residence. The contract for the work was awarded to Robert Tebbott. The original estimate of £120,000 soared to £1.2 million.
William Craven was born in 1608, the eldest son of a self-made Lord Mayor of London who died in 1618. Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall was a soldier who chose the Thirty Years’ War to pursue his military career.
Jack of Newbury is a legendary figure of early Tudor England. However, you have to get the right one, out of several, including four generations of the same family where the heir was named John
18th C English Law drew a distinction between public and private offences, the former being criminal and the latter being civil . Private offences included assault and battery, slander, libel, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment and abduction.
