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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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MARKET HOUSE AND TOWN HALL, CAMPDEN.Vol. XXIV. 5 50 Transactions for the Year 1901. The manor of Chipping Campden was held previously to the NormanConquest by King Harold, and at the time of the Survey by Hugh, Earlof Chester. It continued in the hands of the Earls of Chester till 1232,when, on the death of Earl Ranulph without issue, it devolved to his foursisters. In the time of Henry VIII., Thomas Smith, who is said to havebelonged to an old Campden family, was lord of the manor. In 1609 hisson, Anthony Smith, sold the manor to Baptist Hicks, a wealthy mercerof London. To this generous merchant Campden owes its almshouse,built and endowed in 1612, and its picturesque Market House, built in
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LOGGIA, CAMPDEN HOUSE. 1627, at a cost of £90. Baptist Hicks built Campden House at Kensingtonin 1612, and commenced the construction of a splendid mansion atCampden in the following year. In 1620 he was created Lord Hicks ofIlmington, and in 1628 Viscount Campden. He died in 1629, and wassucceeded as lord of the manor and Viscount Campden by his son-in-law,Sir Edward Noel, who died at Oxford in 1642. During the Civil WarCampden House was occupied in turn by the Puritans and Royalists; andin 1645 it was ruthlessly destroyed by Sir Henry Bard, who had held itfor the King. i Campden. 51 It would appear from a birds-eye view, formerly belonging to the lateCanon Bourne, that the house, which stood on the south side of the church,had four fronts. On its south front was a terrace with a loggia at eitherend. These loggias, known locally as the banqueting halls, and also thegate-house still remain. The town derived its first name from Ceapan—to buy, and, like ChippingSodbury and Chipping N

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