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Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… appears to be no record as to the means whereby the manor of Burton came into the possession of Roger de Burton, … of Eltred circa 112030, as one carucate of land, with the church of Burton. See p. 142. It was the rectory manor of the … Fines, K.G., lord Clinton and Saye and Grand Admiral of England, inter alia nine messuages and tenements etc. in …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Bertune and Ludham, some land that was Sok to Gulnethorpe of the fee of Roger de Busli, viz. twelve bov. ad geld. The … servant, one maid, together having three car. There was a church and a priest, sixteen acres of meadow, pasture wood … on the country to try. William de Upton parson of the church of Birton Force, got an inquisition, 21 E: 3: 12 which …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Overy BURTON OVERY Burton Overy is seven miles south-east of Leicester. The village stands on rising ground which forms … further north a group of houses surrounds the parish church and the school. A row of small houses and bungalows, … usually made by the Prior of Ware, a cell of St. Evroul in England. 28 A pension was paid by the rector to St. Evroul or …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary and St. Modwena), a parish, and the head of a union, partly in the N. division of the hundred of … Anglesey, the impropriator; net income, 192. The ancient church belonged to the abbey, and was made collegiate by … former, was erected on its site, in 1720. Attached to the church is a lectureship, endowed with 31 per annum, and in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Charities for the poor Charities for the poor The majority of endowed charities for the poor in Burton were founded … gave the monastic almoner a stone house next to the abbey church, presumably opening on to the market place. 8 In 1535 … to supply twopenny loaves to nine poor people at Burton church each week, and £1 10 s. annually to each of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… island, Burton meadow, was formed by a major division of the river. The main course ran some distance east of the … [i.e. Staffordshire] or anywhere (of the kind) perhaps in England', was considered by a traveller in 1790 to have 'not … Ferry bridge, was opened in 1985. 18 It is named after the church in Stapenhill. Ferry bridge (opened 1889) from the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 2 ploughteams were worked by 9 villani. There were 16 a. of meadow, and woodland measured 1/2 league in both length … built in the Pound Yard, on the north side of the abbey church. A dovecot recorded in 1585 was probably on the same … when the introduction of hops into the brewing process in England enabled the production of beer, with its …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Education EDUCATION TO 1870 A reference to a 'warden of the boys' ( custos puerorum) in Burton in 1390 suggests … 1947 it provided the first remedial education service in England for pupils who had fallen behind in reading and … The school occupied a site on the north side of the parish church from at least 1549 until 1877, when it was moved from …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burton-upon-Trent Established church ST. MODWEN AND HER CULT Modwen, an Irish abbess … She departed for Ireland, leaving Andresey in the care of two female companions, and died, but her body was brought … were worth £2 a year. 17 The Cult Elsewhere The cult in England was largely confined to the diocese of Coventry and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… itself until the early Anglo-Saxon period. A minster church was refounded as a monastery at the turn of the 11th century, and in the late 12th century the abbey … in his execution at Lichfield in 1612, the last person in England to be burned at the stake for heresy. His heretical …