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A History of the County of Shropshire
… was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as … 1130, it was claimed in 1235 to be well stocked with oaks and underwood. 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount … Charlton mines were leased to, or operated by, the Pitts family, whose rights were challenged in 1696 when several …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made between 1616 and 1657 totalling £60 were used to buy a field called … improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the site c. … bequest that was being honoured in 1821 by Edward Cludde and Mr. Stainer, who had charges of 10 s. a year on their …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and there was a priest in 1086. 63 Shrewsbury abbey claimed … married or widowed priest; he was probably related to the family who owned Charlton. 92 One pre-Reformation vicar is … 1600-1900 the parish clerk was a member of the Houlston family. 26 The church of ST. PETER, so named by 1435, 27 is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Education EDUCATION. John Poole (or Pole) and Henry Bynnell were schoolmasters in the late 17th century 58 and Richard Poyner from 1702. 59 Elizabeth Bullock (d. 1681) … fees being paid by richer neighbours. 62 The Cludde family built and supported separate boys' and girls' schools …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the … in 1494 and 1504. 29 In the 12th century the Charlton family presumably held the manor of the abbey by … Moors, and the two manors descended together in the Eyton family. 45 Mention of the chapel yard in 1784, and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… It is built partly of flint rubble with stone dressings, and partly of brick. The Nave is probably of earlier date … of the Rolls, and wife of William Plumbe, half-figure, arms and inscription: in the floor, of John Gille, 1546, and … C. C. (Charles Crouch) and the date 1681; the Crouch family owned the manor of Corney Bury from about the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of … the name of Wucha, and at an early period was held by a family called De Wyke. It is detached from the rest of the … old; the eastern window is of stained glass, with the arms of the Craven family emblazoned on it: the edifice was …
A History of the County of Northampton
… geld-roll of c. 1074 Wymersley figures as a hundred and a half; 1 but in the Domesday Survey the western portion … Collingtree, Courteenhall, Hardingstone, Milton, and Rothersthorpe, and probably Wootton) constituted the … Judith and was certainly held by her representatives, the family of Hastings and their successors, with the manor of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… XX, p. 273) to five coins, one of Nerva, one of Trajan and three of Hadrian found in a bank of earth near the Roman … was uncovered in 1935; it had guilloche borders, foliage and a dolphin. Ecclesiastical c(2) Parish Church Of St. … freestone; the roofs are tiled. The house belonged to the family of Sydenham in the 16th and 17th centuries and was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wyrardisbury 102. … the old dressings are of clunch, much whitewashed, and the modern dressings are of oolite. The roofs are tiled. … Tudor rose in spandrels; above canopy two shields of arms and part of third in white metal, indent of fourth …