| Description | to the Earl of Radnor from the inhabitants of Whitley, Melksham, seeking his support in the face of increased rents which has effected them badly; farm labourers earn 10d a day in winter and 1 shilling in summer, and carders, and wages of spinners and weavers, who make superfine cloths, are also low.
Sir Edward Bouverie held the manor of Beanacre which was sold to Paul Methuen in 1772. |