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A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Education EDUCATION. There was a school at Walsall by 1377, when Robert the schoolmaster was admitted as a burgess. 45 In the 1490s a Walsall chantry priest, John Staple, kept a school where he …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Introduction WALSALL The Growth of the Town, p. 146; Communications, p. … 254; Charities for the Poor, p. 266. The Ancient parish of Walsall 1 consisted of a borough and a foreign. The two parts …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The division of Walsall manor between two lords from 1247 until 1338 seems to … a single steward. In the late 14th and the 15th centuries Walsall was under the steward responsible for overseeing the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Manors MANORS. WALSALL may be the 'Walesho' which Wulfric Spot left to … the civil war, after some eight years of married life at Walsall, she was abducted by John de Lay. Richard fled and for long did not return to Walsall. 57 He was still living in 1289, but in the earlier …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Non-Christian religions NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS. The … Street in 1971. 49 G.R.O., Worship Reg. nos. 69713, 73375; Walsall Observer, 31 Dec. 1971, 12 Apr. 1972; Express & Star, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Other estates OTHER ESTATES. Daffodil Farm, Wood End, … 1719 and 1722 the estate was held by Richard Scott, a Walsall ironmonger. 26 By 1784 it had passed to a Mr. … called Daffydowndilly House. 29 John Shannon (d. 1875), a Walsall clothing manufacturer, was apparently the owner in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Parliamentary history PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY. Walsall became a parliamentary borough returning one member by the Reform Act of 1832. Walsall Wood and Shelfield were excluded from the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Protestant Nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. … of God. 39 Baptists. There was a Baptist congregation at Walsall in 1651 when Robert Stotesbury and Thomas Cumberlidge … War and was a ring-leader in the anti-inclosure riots at Walsall in 1653. 41 There was at least one Anabaptist in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Public services PUBLIC SERVICES. As early as 1309 the … granted by the lords of the manor to the burgesses of Walsall stipulated that the market-place should be kept … plague threatened in 1636 and 1637. In November 1636 the Walsall justices issued orders to prevent it from spreading …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Roman Catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. Among the numerous recusants who occur in Walsall from the early 1580s 92 were several prominent local … labourers'. 1 John Bradford, the Independent minister at Walsall in the later 1780s, claimed that he found there 'as …