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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Two elaborate examples were illustrated in Ince and Mayhew's catalogue of 1762 [Ince and Mayhew (1762, facs. 1960)]. … Found described as banded with BRASS, with LOCKs, PLAIN, School, with secrets, SMALL, travelling Found made of DEAL, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 3. 7. 8., and in the gift of the Crown; net … present worth more than 20 a year, for the endowment of a school. In the parish are some remains of a British …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… south-west of Cockshutt Piece and north-east of Ball's coppice. In the earlier 19th century there was some … district council. In 1650 there were 12 cottagers at Pain's Lane on Watling Street. In 1836 the place was said to have … to meet at the White Horse inn. 47 In 1843 there was a school clothing society and a missionary society, in 1844 a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… EDUCATION. In 1833 a Primitive Methodist Sunday school, started in 1823, had 177 pupils, and a Wesleyan one … That year £50 was spent on repairs, a deficit of £47 4 s. 3½ d. being met by the rector, who owned the master's house; his salary was £27 2 s. 10 d. The first master …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… provided. An ambulance service was added to the hospital's facilities in 1917. 20 CHURCH. The inhabitants of … Wood, in a cottage in Furnace Lane. 23 The National school, built near the glassworks and opened in 1831, was … ecclesiastical parish in 1834. The patronage was the Crown's until 1887 when it was conveyed to the bishop of Lichfield, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… average 180. 51 In 1863 the Wesleyans moved to St. George's and the Nabb chapel closed. 52 In 1824 St. John's Wesleyan chapel, Trench Road, opened. Society membership … 'double decker' schoolroom was added and in 1886 a Sunday school. 68 The chapel and schoolroom were sold in 1965, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… distributed annually. Edward Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The … was built on the site c. 1801 but the rent of £4 10 s. was not increased; it was paid out annually as the … income, £4 4 s. 4 d. from stock, was paid to the girls' school. Under a scheme of 1922 the charity was widened to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had a Sunday school and a day school 'by subscription' and by 1818 two … school in 1852. 68 The following year a new St. Peter's Girls' School (with 100 places in schoolroom and classroom) and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss Cludde's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bradford, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 4 miles (S.) from Bradford; containing 2330 inhabitants. It is about … and Elwall, Dorchester division of Dorset, 1 mile (W. S. W.) from Weymouth; containing 1911 inhabitants. The living … is large, contains a place of worship for Wesleyans; and a school chiefly supported by Mr. Blackett. The tithes have …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… of church of Glasgow to patronage of the Grammar School (1494) XL. Instrument setting forth the rights of the … Church of Glasgow to the patronage of the Grammar School of the City, and the care and government of the school and the master thereof. Glasgow, 13 September 1494. …