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A History of the County of Warwick
… Clopton, 'knight', who was a member of the Trinity Gild of Coventry, founded in 1364. 113 He was succeeded by his son …
A History of the County of Warwick
… from Worcester Cathedral and St. Michael's Church, Coventry, including round shafts with Corinthian capitals … had been suppressed, and its lands, in Over Whitacre, Coventry, and elsewhere, were sold to Thomas Fyssher and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… gave a rent-charge of 20 s. for the poor for bread; Thomas Coventry, Lord Coventry (d. 1661) gave by will 300 for the poor, which was … all that remained of 200 given in 1651 by the same Lord Coventry to buy materials for putting the poor to work was …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1847 297 and closed in 1870 when the firm moved to Coventry; 298 in 1850 it employed c. 200 people. 299 A …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Tewkesbury in the later 19th century, on George William Coventry, Earl of Coventry (d. 1930), the seventh of his line to serve the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… overseers. In 1650 or 1651 the bailiffs procured from Lord Coventry 200 to be a permanent stock for setting the poor to … Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Sir George Dowty, the Earls of Coventry, the Dukes of Beaufort, and the rivers Severn and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 1308. 163 Gaveston's old enemy, Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry, was confined in Wallingford Castle about this time. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… the Bishop of Worcester, and the recorders of Warwick and Coventry. Preference for admission as a brother was to be … took place as a result of the creation of the diocese of Coventry in 1919: a Scheme of 1926, confirmed by Act of Parliament, nominated the Bishop of Coventry as sole Visitor. The power formerly vested in the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… rural estates of 27 of the king's 'barons'. 5 The Abbot of Coventry had 32, and prominent among the others were the … had fallen well behind the growing industrial centre of Coventry: in 1327 it had 84 taxpayers compared with Coventry's 200; 14 in 1332 its taxpayers contributed £17 16 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of its poor communications and its proximity to industrial Coventry the economic position of Warwick showed little … receive the benefits of travellers, and standing betwixt Coventry and Stratford, both towns of common road, and their … principal trade. 17 Roberts's iron foundry, by 1822 in the Coventry road, which 'deservedly obtained considerable …