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A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Churches: Churches built before 1800 … by 1113 as a chapel claimed by Coventry Priory and serving the tenants of what was by then the Prior's Half of Coventry. … that year for the first time on market tolls and great fair tolls, on the Smithfield Market, and on the water mains …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Crafts and industries: Medieval industry … CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES 1 MEDIEVAL INDUSTRY AND TRADE 2 When the Anglo-Saxons first settled in Coventry, probably well … Ranulf III was granted in 1218 a yearly eight-day Trinity fair at Coventry. 15 This was later known as Corpus Christi …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Crafts and industries: Modern industry … INDUSTRY AND TRADE To judge from its contribution to the subsidy of 1523-7 Coventry maintained its earlier … 17th centuries. To revive trade a charter for a new yearly fair, to take place from 21 to 23 October, was granted in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 1 THE CITY OF COVENTRY, formerly in Knightlow Hundred, is … to her ownership in the Domesday Survey would have been a fair-sized area of some 1,000 a.: see below. Lands formerly …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Local government and public services: … FROM 1451 62 INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT, 1451-1621. After the creation of the county of the city the power of the leet … that corporation property should be inspected and a fair price fixed before it was sold or let to any member of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Local government and public services: … to Godiva, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, during the middle years of the 11th century. 2 The earliest version … the mayor and bailiffs by granting to them the market and fair previously held in the town by Queen Isabel and the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Local government and public services: Public services PUBLIC SERVICES POOR RELIEF. 67 The leet and the corporation had for long been faced with the … hall. No cattle were sold in the open streets except at fair times but the Smithfield's business was by 1889 being …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Protestant nonconformity: Introduction PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY: 1 FROM the late 14th century onwards, when the Lollard movement first found support in Coventry, there …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Protestant nonconformity: Places of worship Places of Worship 33 Apostolic Church A room on the first floor of 434 Foleshill Road was registered for worship by the Apostolic Church in 1937, and a church in Bird Street in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… The City of Coventry Social history from 1700 SOCIAL HISTORY FROM 1700 1 THE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURIES. Coventry's economic … Street and the tithe barn on Gosford Green. The annual fair regularly attracted entertainers to Coventry. In 1792 a …