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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and there was a priest in 1086. 63 … 65 were not mentioned thereafter. The church, valued at £10 in 1291, 66 was appropriated to Shrewsbury abbey in … have been a graduate, John Dovy, 1463-72. 93 In 1548 the service of Our Lady was suppressed. The 70-year-old …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Poole (or Pole) and Henry Bynnell were schoolmasters in the late 17th century 58 and Richard Poyner from 1702. 59 … (d. 1705) kept schools in their houses. A 'schoolhouse' at Allscott was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had … at Leaton Grange prepared destitute girls for domestic service in the colonies. 89 The Royal National Institute for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1285 John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a year were … Bratton was a member of Eyton manor and made presentments at courts there in the 16th century and answered with Eyton … land; he received a tree from the demesne for each year's service. 31 T. F. Dukes, the Shropshire antiquary, was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and … is mentioned in Domesday book under the name of Wucha, and at an early period was held by a family called De Wyke. It is … small rivulet called the Pirral. The manor is held by the service of cup-bearer to the kings of England, at their …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… all rights and privileges, previously granted to the Burgh and City of Glasgow, and erecting the same into a … in peace; And now we, for the thankful and obedient, service rendered to us by the provosts, bailies, councillors, … goodwill, to increase and confirm the same: therefore, at the express and earnest request of our well beloved …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XCIV Charter of James VI granting the Tenandry of Rattonraw to the Burgh (1613) XCIV. Charter … we willing and meaning to reward their good and thankful service done and performed to us, never hitherto recompensed; … or thereby, in Provansyde; and three acres of land lying at the back of the said barns, on the north side of our high …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XIII Conveyance of land from Robert of Mithyngby to the archdeacon of Glasgow (1280-90) XIII. Charter by Robert … my nearest relations and friends, in the court of Glasgow, at three head courts of the year, and at other courts often, … successors the rent due at the usual terms for all secular service, custom, exaction and demand. And I Robert and my …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XLIV Foundation of a chaplainry at altar of St Christopher in the High Church (1514) XLIV. Foundation by John Schaw, … goods, which I have not fully recompensed either by service or kindness, and the souls of all the faithful dead, …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… into a regality (1450) XXI. Charter by King James II. to the Bishop of Glasgow and his successors erecting the city … of Glasgow, to us and our heirs and successors, a red rose at the feast of the nativity of Saint John the Baptist, at … all other burden, exaction, question, demand or secular service which can be justly exacted or required by any one in …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… of Glasgow (1453) XXIV. Letters by King James II. taking the University of Glasgow under his firm peace and protection, and exempting the rectors and others connected therewith from all tributes … in all time to come for ever. Given under our great seal, at Stirling, the twentieth day of April, in the year of our …