THE SMART TRICK OF THE SCOURTS AND THE VILLAGE IF ILTON THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

Bristol commenced as a town to the Gloucestershire facet on the Avon, but because it grew it prolonged over the river into Somerset. In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "that the town of Bristol with its suburbs and precincts shall henceforth be independent in the counties of Gloucester and Somerset ... Which it ought to be a county by itself".[fifty]No