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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a holder for a spindle or AXLE. In a quotation dated 1733, the OED shows how it operated; 'The Spindle is kept from … century, such a desk could be quite costly; one was valued at £2 6s [Inventories (1735)], while 'a Writing Desk with … Writing-paper, gilt or black Edged' [Tradecards (1760)]. John Houghton had much earlier commented on the art of …
A Dictionary of London
… Wrestlers (The) - Wynwharf Wrestlers (The) "Mesuagio brasineo" called … purposes. Wrestlers' Court South out of Camomile Street at No.2 (P.O Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Within. First … Tenement and great solar called "le Wynsoler" belonged to John Byker, 1361. Other property in parish of St. Katherine …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… (b Wrights Bridge, near Hornchurch, Essex (3rd son of John Wright)) Date of birth c. 1590 Date of death 3 Sep/Oct …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is a large parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and Aubyns are the principal monuments. … Architectural DescriptionThe Chancel (41 ft. by 18 ft. at the E. end and 21 ft. at the W. end) has chamfered quoins … (Heveningham), and wife successively of Thomas Berdefield, John Bedell, and Walter Thomas, 1513, inscription lost; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the western … river Tern, and the road from Allscott to Watling Street at Norton. The western boundary of the parish and of Charlton … below, Man. and Other Est.; S.R.O. 14/1/5, MS. addn. at end; 4472/CW/2; S. Bagshaw, Dir. Salop. (1851), 443-8. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred … is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The great … and surrounded by an estate of 2319 acres. Wroughton (St. John the Baptist and St. Helen) WROUGHTON ( St. John the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 … in the township in the Middle Ages. Part of the settlement at Quam Pool apparently lay in Wrockwardine Wood, and Quam … 1980s over 200 council dwellings were built at the south end of Moss Road and near St. George's in New Street and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in … ironworks in 1754. 69 The woodland then remaining, at the Nabb and on Cockshutt Piece, was coppiced 70 but by … than coal for landlord and tenant alike. In 1758-9 St. John Charlton received £232 as his share of the royalties: …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… had 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept school in his house at the Nabb. 80 In 1826 there was Anglican concern because in … 62 when extensions had provided 750 places. 63 Named the John Hunt School in 1973, it then became mixed, 64 with 704 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES. Wrockwardine Wood was part of the manor, and until 1884 the civil parish, of Wrockwardine. … 20 CHURCH. The inhabitants of Wrockwardine Wood appear at times to have used churches and chapels of ease nearer … vicar of Wrockwardine 1782- 1828 22 and a friend of John Fletcher, the Methodist vicar of Madeley, to introduce …