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A History of the County of Shropshire
… original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … in 1841, 1,380 in 1961, and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. … south and roughly doubled in size. Admaston, 'Eadmund's tun', 10 grew in the mid 18th century from a rural village …
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 … of Kent, 11 miles (W. N. W.) from Maidstone, and 24 (S. E. by E.) from London; containing 2949 inhabitants. This …
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 … part of Wrockwardine Wood. 17 Even in 1847, however, Pain's Lane remained a crossroads settlement and the laying out of …
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 … Joshua Gilpin, vicar of Wrockwardine 1782- 1828 22 and a friend of John Fletcher, the Methodist vicar of Madeley, to … 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
… About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. 74 The vicar's income in 1612 consisted of tithes of wool, lambs, flax, … Edward Pemberton (d. 1680) left a rent charge of £6 13 s. 4 d. for similar purposes; it was discharged for £200 in … c. 1947 as a centre for women's devotional work. 24 Her friend Miss Norah Shoebotham continued the work, and in the …
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 … with the chapelry of Weymouth annexed, valued in the king's books at 19. 7. 1., and in the gift of the Bishop of …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… provost of Glasgow, of a chaplainry at Saint Christopher's altar in the High Church, of which chaplainry he … of divine worship, and for the weal of my soul, my father's and mother's, and the said Marion's, my spouse, and the souls of all my …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… as well as temporal things, and the steady and unfailing friend of every commendable undertaking, to the end that men … of the said king in that behalf, to the praise of God's name, and propagation of the orthodox faith, erect, by … apostles Peter and Paul. Given at Rome, at St Peter's, the year of our Lord's incarnation, one thousand four …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… at the said high altar with plain song, on every Lord's day, on the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth days of the … late John Hynde, lying within the said city in St Thanew's Street, on the south side thereof, betwixt the tenements of … on the south side, and the highway running from St Thanew's chapel to the Market Cross of Glasgow; Also, six shillings …