| Description | Series of signed statements and queries about various holdings in the parishes around Longford, with comments on legality by 'Mr Thursby', including: testimonies on the status of Bodenham Ford over the previous 50 years and comments about the 'navigators to Salisbury' having dug up the ford to ease their passage without providing the compensation of a bridge, the status of the Lodge of Loosehanger Park, Downton, fishing rights in the Avon, the ownership of the hatch house which controlled the management of water meadows for that purpose as well as regulating the flow of water to Standlynch Mill and improving the fields and finally summarising the history of the management of the river in that area from 1630 |