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    Petherton Park (also known as North Petherton Park or Newton Park) was a Deer park around North Petherton within the English county of Somerset. The origins...
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    North Petherton is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the edge of the eastern foothills of the Quantocks, and close to the edge...
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    Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (1722-1785) of Killerton, Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset, who acquired Pixton by his marriage to the heiress Elizabeth...
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    1391. He began as Deputy Forester in the royal forest of Petherton Park in North Petherton, Somerset on 22 June. This was no sinecure, with maintenance...
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    forester is based upon his experiences as a deputy forester of North Petherton Park in Somersetshire.: xl  The very first line of The Yeoman's description...
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    1693 at Petherton Park, North Petherton in the English county of Somerset, on land owned by Sir Thomas Wroth (circa 1675–1721). North Petherton is about...
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    cloisonné-enamelled and with a rock crystal covering, was found in 1693 at Petherton Park, North Petherton. This is believed to have been owned by King Alfred. Monasteries...
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  • Newton Park North Cadbury Court Nynehead Court The Old Manor, Croscombe Orchardleigh Estate Orchard Wyndham Over Langford Manor Petherton Park Poundisford...
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  • Sir Thomas Wroth, 3rd Baronet (c.1674–1721) of Petherton Park, Somerset was an English High Sheriff and Member of Parliament. He was born the only surviving...
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    Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (1722-1785), of Killerton in Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset, who in accordance with the terms of his wife's "princely...
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    South Petherton is a large village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England, located 5 miles (8 km) east of Ilminster and...
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  • death of the third Baronet in 1721. The third Baronet, whose seat was Petherton Park in Somerset, was member of parliament for Bridgwater, for Somerset and...
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  • payment of debts. The chief of these were the manors of Newton and Petherton Park, of which his great-grandfather Robert had been appointed Forester by...
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    time he succeeded his father Geoffrey Chaucer as forester of North Petherton Park, Somerset. On 5 November 1402, he received a grant of the chief butlership...
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  • William Wrothe had held the valuable office of Forester of Petherton Park at North Petherton in Somerset, in succession to the Chaucer family. In 1508...
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    William Daubeney (1424-1460/1) of South Ingelby in Lincolnshire, and South Petherton and Barrington Court in Somerset, MP for Bedfordshire 1448/9, and Sheriff...
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    which Chaucer was certainly familiar. He served as forester of North Petherton Park in Somersetshire for the last decade of his life.: xl  The green livery...
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  • Bassett 1637: William Portman 1638: William Every 1639: Thomas Wroth of Petherton Park 1640: John Hippisley 1641: Martin Sanford of Nynehead Court 1642: Edward...
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    Sir Thomas Acland, 7th Baronet (1722–1785) of Killerton in Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset. She was also the heiress of her childless uncle Edward...
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    cloisonné-enamelled and with a rock crystal covering, was found in 1693 at Petherton Park, North Petherton. Believed to have been owned by Alfred the Great it is thought...
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    Sir Thomas Acland, 7th Baronet (1722–1785) of Killerton in Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset, should adopt the additional surname of Dyke. 1746-1775...
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    Baronet (14 August 1722 – 24 February 1785) of Killerton in Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset, was Member of Parliament for Devon, 1746–1747, for Somerset...
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    Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (1722-1785) of Killerton, Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset, who acquired Pixton by his marriage to the heiress Elizabeth...
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    7th Baronet (1722–1785) of Killerton, Devon, and Petherton Park in Somerset, who acquired Pixton Park, Tetton, Kingston St Mary, and Holnicote, Setworthy...
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    Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (1722–1785) of Killerton in Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset in 1745. A prominent member of the West Country gentry,...
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  • Henry II (1154-1189) and Richard I (1189-1199), the royal forest of Petherton Park, near Bridgwater in Somerset, was held from the crown by Osbert and...
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    Rich and his sister Dame Margaret Wroth, wife of Sir Thomas Wroth of Petherton Park near Bridgwater, Somerset, influential promoters of colonial enterprise...
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    Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (1722–1785) of Killerton in Devon and Petherton Park in Somerset, by his wife Elizabeth Dyke (died 1753), daughter and heiress...
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  • Manor in 1619. Around 1614, Margaret remarried, to Sir Thomas Wroth of Petherton Park, Somerset. Noyes was instituted Rector of Cholderton in the episcopacy...
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  • Trustee (together with his Wroth and Rich relations) for the devise of Petherton Park, a role confirmed when he made Osborne an executor of his will in 1573...
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