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A History of the County of Shropshire
… List of illustrations ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was … for ironstone and £33 for coal. 89 In the years 1748-54 Earl Gower invested an average of £1,714 a year in mines in … there by the 1850s. In 1882 a brickworks stood between Lincoln Road and Cockshutt Piece and there was also a kiln at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood Manor MANOR. Wrockwardine Wood originally formed part of Wrockwardine manor 60 but the lord of the manor's mineral … 1673. In 1813 and 1822 respectively Lord Berwick and the earl of Shrewsbury retained the mining rights when they sold … his mines in Wrockwardine Wood to Viscount Granville (cr. Earl Granville 1833); he evidently still owned them in 1839 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… associated with John Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in 1765. 49 Wesleyans … apparently average numbers. The chapel had 500 seats, 300 of them free. 57 In 1864 it was rebuilt in diapered red and … averaged 20 in 1982. 71 In 1870 a brick mission in Lincoln Road opened, reputedly for poor people reluctant to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and … abbey claimed the church itself as a gift of Roger, earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1094). 64 Dependent chapels, referred … (given c. 1931) formerly the property of Bishop King of Lincoln. 42 The chest may be 14th-century. 43 The sundial in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's boundary' 74 and the … of WROCKWARDINE in 1066. Roger of Montgomery, created earl of Shrewsbury by 1074, was tenant in chief by 1086, and … The manor was presumably forfeited after the rebellion of Earl Roger's son Robert of Bellême in 1102 78 and remained …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of Devon; … of the hundred of Louth-Eske, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 7 miles (W. by N.) from Louth; containing 32 … curacy; net income, 115; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Craven. The church has a tower, and is very ancient, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Wymersley hundred THE HUNDRED OF WYMERSLEY containing the parishes of Blisworth; Brafield-On-The-Green; Castle Ashby; Cogenhoe; … seems to have become divided, possibly when Richard Earl of Kent disposed of his estates, as Richard Fermor owned …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… X Charter granting rights of trade in Argyll and Lennox (1242-3) X. Charter by King Alexander II. granting to the Bishop of Glasgow and his successors that the bishops burgesses and … of Saint Andrews, George bishop of Dunkeld, William Cumin earl of Menenteth, William Olifard justiciar of Lothian, …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XCII Charter of James VI making Glasgow a Royal Burgh (1611) XCII. Charter … and privileges, previously granted to the Burgh and City of Glasgow, and erecting the same into a Royal Burgh. … and assent of our well beloved counsellors, Alexander earl of Dunfermline, high chancellor of our kingdom of …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XI Letters of Protection to the Bishop of Glasgow, his lands and men (1251) XI. Letters of … them under pain of our full forfeiture. Witnesses, Patrick earl of Dunbar, Alexander the steward, and Robert of Meyners …