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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… post. [ I. 75, p. 520.] Aug. 21. 99. Petition of Peter Barr to the Council of State, for a pass for 2 English horses …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… of Borkherd Sallett, of Hope Johnson, and of Vincent de la Barr, with the papers from the Commissioners of Customs, that …
A History of the County of Stafford
… widow of John Wollaston the younger, left land in Great Barr in Aldridge and a house in Walsall for the poor. From the Barr property 10 s. was to be given yearly to 20 poor widows … by more general vocational assistance. 52 Land at Great Barr was sold in 1896 and land at Aldridge in 1935. 53 The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and rent worth 10 marks a year in Walsall, Rushall, Great Barr in Aldridge, Rugeley, Essington in Bushbury, King's … farm to the chantry; in 1535 it also held land in Perry Barr in Handsworth. 51 By 1527 a further chantry, with one … included lands in Walsall and Bloxwich, Rushall, Great Barr in Aldridge, Bentley in St. Peter's, Wolverhampton, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in use by the mid 13th century. 49 It ran to Great Barr in Aldridge and then continued via Hamstead and … road at Soho Hill. 50 The stretch to Great Barr was turnpiked from 1748 to 1772. 51 The stretch to … Road of 1831 forking from the old road south of Great Barr and running to Birmingham via Perry Barr (in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… three productive beds of limestone. The lowest, the Barr or Woolhope Limestone, outcrops along the eastern … for agricultural use. 11 In the earlier 19th century the Barr Limestone provided engineering cement and the stucco … Limestone was in demand as a flux in iron-smelting. 12 The Barr Limestone was apparently being worked by the 15th …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and West Bromwich and the civil parishes of Bentley, Great Barr, and Rushall; 5 it was reduced to 8,780 a. in 1934 by an …