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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… Burton, Cotes, and Hoton, with a very fair church in Prestwold, and a chapel in Hoton, both on the north road, but with only a casual … The Admiralty Commissioners to provide cloth and baize for coats for his Highness's watermen, and send the bill to …
Calendar, Committee for Compounding
… to receive the rents, and give her your best assistance in collecting them. [ Also G 1, p. 196; 4, p. 201; 100, pp. … Papists and delinquents discharged or under sequestration in Northwich Hundred, co. Chester: Ashmold, D., no estate … Newbold Astbury. Judge [or Sir Rob.] Brerewood, lands in Wharton, made over to his daughter before the war, …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… cover of 200 on his utensils and stock at Wells St in 1778. This low insurance cover does not altogether accord … This might suggest a specialist craftsman working in association with established furniture makers. At Carlton … of the work charged was obviously of a high quality and in 178384 much of it was specified as in purple wood. In this …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wainfleet - Walcott Wainfleet WAINFLEET, a market-town, in the union of Spilsby, Marsh division of the wapentake of … 128 (N. by E.) from London; containing 2257 inhabitants. In the time of the Romans, the whole province is said to have … Wainfleet returned one burgess to the grand council in the 11th of Edward III.; and, in 1359, supplied two ships …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and a member of the cinque-port liberty of Sandwich, in the union of Eastry, locally in the hundred of Cornilo, lathe of St. Augustine, E. … of which 372 are arable, 272 meadow and pasture, 114 in homesteads and gardens, and 100 sea-beach. Walmer-street, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Alms-houses. By deed of 1451 William Lyle of Moxhull in Wishaw (Warws.) gave Halesowen abbey (Worcs.) a … required the income to be applied in gifts of clothes, coats, or provisions to poor not receiving relief. 16 By 1945 … borough and foreign; a further £7 10 s. was to be spent on coats for 12 poor men of the borough and gowns for 12 poor …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Ages, 81 and a third was founded at Bloxwich apparently in the early 15th century. It was not until the 19th century, … were built within the parish. Walsall church was recorded in 1200 when the Crown gave it to the bishop and his … sides of the bowl enclose demi-angels bearing shields with coats of arms, including those of the Staffords and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the Conquest: some former arable at Bescot was waste in 1086. 71 Presumably there was arable farming by the time the manor was granted to Herbert le Rous in 1159, 72 and the area of cultivation was gradually … assarting. Herbert was evidently making assarts at Walsall in 1160. 73 In the earlier 13th century William le Rous's …
A History of the County of Stafford
… when Robert the schoolmaster was admitted as a burgess. 45 In the 1490s a Walsall chantry priest, John Staple, kept a … is no evidence that any of the chantry priests kept school in the 1540s. The chantry commissioners in fact suggested that a school which existed at Shenstone …
A History of the County of Stafford
… The corporation paid for the sweeping of the streets in the town. 39 Thoroughgoing measures were taken when plague threatened in 1636 and 1637. In November 1636 the Walsall justices issued orders to …