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A History of the County of Shropshire
… A Wesleyan Methodist society associated with John Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in 1765. 49 Wesleyans were meeting at the Nabb in …
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 … presumably given Wrockwardine in or after 1071. 91 Master John Charlton, rector by the 1290s and still in 1320, was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 the 7½ berewicks of Wrockwardine, for which geld was paid on … areas of open-field land elsewhere in the township. 65 At Bratton, worth 24 s. T.R.E., 1½ hide paid geld in 1086. … The mill was worth 4 s. a year in 1291. 4 In 1553, when John Steventon was tenant, the mill was acquired from the …
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 … (d. 1705) kept schools in their houses. A 'schoolhouse' at Allscott was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Strange did no suit to shire or hundred court, and c. 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 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's … manor was farmed to Hamon le Strange, whose elder brother, John (II) of Knockin, succeeded him as farmer in 1203. 80 In … nephew Samuel Barbour, who took the name Hill. He lived at Shenstone (Staffs.) and died in 1758, when his cousin …
Survey of London
… work, was placed here by Lady Gilbert Kennedy, the last tenant of St. Margaret's Lodge, which stood at the south end of the Square. The house was pulled down when the site …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… WYCK RISSINGTON (16 miles N.E. of Cirencester) As well as the evidence for Romano-British occupation noted below, isolated finds of Roman material are recorded at three points, none of them apparently associated with … pottery 2 were found under a house extension at the N.W. end of the village (SP 18782181). c. Fragments of samian and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… of flint rubble with stone dressings, and partly of brick. The Nave is probably of earlier date than the Chancel, which … half-figure, arms and inscription: in the floor, of John Gille, 1546, and his wife, eight daughters, arms and … to be of George Canon, 1534: brass inscription (now kept at the Rectory) to George Canon, recording that he built the …
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 … of the church furniture. The Low-Moor Company and Messrs. John and Charles Hardy were likewise munificent contributors; …