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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made between 1616 and 1657 … and subscriptions, was established in 1832. Members of the society, numbering 57 in 1853 and 68 in 1875, paid in small …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the lord chancellor exchanged it with the earl of Powis for the patronage of Holy Cross, Shrewsbury. 69 In 1889 Powis … from Allscott and Charlton; Easter offerings; and 1½ d. for every cow and calf. 75 In 1655 the small tithes were … and in 1957 she devised St. Christopher's Hall there for Christian work. She had built the hall c. 1947 as a centre …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the Church Commissioners, the Incorporated Society for Building Churches, and the Ripon Diocesan Society made liberal grants: the total expense of erection is …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… consent and assent of Dame Christiane Craufurd his spous, for all rycht of terse, conjunct fie, lyfrent, or vtherwayis … of wobsteris, and William Watsoun, dekin of fleschouris, for thame selfis, and in name and behalf and taking the burding vpone thame for the communitie of the said burgh on the vther pairt, in …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XIV Charter regarding a gift of lands for providing lights in the church of Glasgow (1293) XIV. … son of the then deceased Richard Hangpudyng, of lands for providing lights in the church of Glasgow. Glasgow 15 … chapel lower in the town on the west side, and the land of Christian late spouse to Symon of Govan on the east side; and …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… the chancellors of the foresaid church of Glasgow for the time being, according to the statutes and usage of … chancellor aforesaid, or the chancellor of the said church for the time being, to keep a grammar school, and instruct … teach scholars in grammar, or youths in the elements of knowledge, of himself, secretly or openly, within the …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… To all and sundry as well present as to come, to whose knowledge this present writing shall come, John Schaw, … of God, Saint Christopher the martyr, and all saints, and for increase of divine worship, and for the weal of my soul, my father's and mother's, and the …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… Nicholas the Bishop, servant of the servants of God, for perpetual memory of the fact. Amongst other blessings … the least, that by assiduous study he may win the pearl of knowledge, which shows him the way to live well and happily, … learning far to surpass the unlearned, and opens the door for him clearly to understand the mysteries of the universe, …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… good works, and draw others by their example to a longing for divine knowledge. Truly we are moved with most earnest desire, to … understanding, and irreproachable life, by whom, after the Christian people committed to us shall have drunk of the …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… of Glasgow, to all and sundry faithful in Christ to whose knowledge the present letters shall come, greeting with the … give and grant to the rector of the University of Glasgow for the time being, full jurisdiction, and cognisance of … Further we grant, and it is our will, that the said rector for the time being shall have the first place next after us …