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Alumni Oxonienses
… of Melton Ross, co. Lincoln, 1647, rector of Authorpe in the isle of Axholme, until ejected 1662, pastor of a presbyterian church in Boston 1672, where he died in 1678. See Calamy, ii. 412; & … created M.A. 1 Nov., 1642. Stanton, William s. William, of Besford, co. Worcester, p.p. Balliol Coll., matric. 27 Nov., …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Stanton Long STANTON LONG Situated in Corve Dale, about 10 km. southwest of Much Wenlock, the … for the support of infirm canons, in exchange for land in Besford (in Shawbury). 90 In 1539 the estate passed to the Crown, 91 …
A History of the County of Worcester
… WADBROUGH AND BEOLEY GRAFTON FLAYFORD WALCOT CUM MEMERIS BESFORD HANLEY CASTLE PERSHORE, ST. ANDREW BIELILNGHAM LEIGH … UPTON UPON SEVERN Nearly the whole district now comprised in the hundred of Pershore belonged originally to the abbey … having probably formed part of its earliest endowments. In a charter attributed to King Edgar, dated 972, 2 the lands …
The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… Corbet, Bart. (representative of a Norman family settled in the same county from the time of the Conquest), there is a … found in 1350 and 1406. The lease of parish property at Shawbury in 1533, and the license for the churchyard at … second of two books of court-rolls of Morton Corbett and Besford in 15881615, are these lines, written probably by a …
Alumni Oxonienses
… archdeacon of Exeter 1634, vicar of Plymouth 1625; died in 1643; father of John 1644. See Lansdowne MS. 985, f. 54; & … of James I."; died at Felsted, Essex, Oct., 1652, buried in the chancel of the church there. See Ath. ii. 318. Wilson, … B.D. 24 Jan., 1616-17; rector of Cound 1609, and vicar of Shawbury, (both) Salop, 1621. See Foster's Index Eccl. Woode, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Bratton and Orleton townships both extend east of it. 88 In 1882 Wrockwardine civil parish contained 4,762 a. (1,927 ha.), including 515 a. in Wrockwardine Wood and 92 a. of detached moorland north of … at Long Lane originally supplied coal and lime to the Shawbury area; in 1898 the Lilleshall Co. used it as a coal …