Search
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… or waste. The soil is various. The lands are watered by two streams rising in the northern declivity of Leith … of Bridport, Bridport division of Dorset, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Lyme-Regis; containing 300 inhabitants. The … 19 miles (S. S. W.) from Gloucester, and 108 (W. by N.) from London; containing, with the tythings of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… below. 85 To the north the parish is bounded partly by Long Lane, the river Tern, and the road from Allscott to … - diverged northwards from the road at Overley Hill by 975, and southwards around Cluddley, probably by the Saxon period. 86 Bullocks brook, so called by 1580, 87 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of South Bradford, N. division of Salop, 2 miles (W. by N.) from Wellington; containing 2731 inhabitants. This … township. The church was erected at an expense of 1600, by subscription, aided by grants from the Incorporated Society, and was consecrated …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for any significant distance. On the south it was bounded by Watling Street. The northern boundary was that part of the ancient Wellington-Newport road known by 1288 as Trench Way (later Trench Road), 9 a name … township became a civil parish and was enlarged to 914 a. by the transfer of Hortonwood and part of Trench from the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… hospital, Gower Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It opened in 1873 but by 1879 a smaller, eight-bed building in Albion Street had … Joshua Gilpin, vicar of Wrockwardine 1782- 1828 22 and a friend of John Fletcher, the Methodist vicar of Madeley, to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1708 the living was worth £49 and in 1799 £120 a year. 80 By 1792 tithes were paid in cash, although Wrockwardine moor, … a graduate, John Dovy, 1463-72. 93 In 1548 the service of Our Lady was suppressed. The 70-year-old stipendiary Thomas … c. 1947 as a centre for women's devotional work. 24 Her friend Miss Norah Shoebotham continued the work, and in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… under 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 soil, though of inferior quality, has been improved by cultivation. The substratum abounds in coal and ironstone; … paintings of the Nativity, Crucifixion, and Ascension of Our Saviour, and with a figure of the Virgin and Infant, in …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… rights of trade in Argyll and Lennox (1242-3) X. Charter by King Alexander II. granting to the Bishop of Glasgow and … present and to come that we have granted, and by this our charter confirmed, to a venerable father William bishop … of Glasgu may go in Argyle and in Lennox, and throughout our whole kingdom to buy and sell, and to exercise every sort …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… (1606) XC. Draft of an Act of Parliament, superscribed by King James VI., for granting free liberty to the City of … the prince and to governe the citye it self; And thairfoir our Souerane Lord, with advyise of the saidis estaites, …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… yeiris, be vertue of ane speciall commissioun grantit be our Souerane Lord to that effect, vnder the great seall, of … and justice to be sa necessar fundamentis and pillaris, as by thame the authoritie of the princes and quietnes of the … bene greatumlie imparit and almost subuertit, specialie by the indirect abolischeing of the estait of Bischoppis by …