Category: History - British
Another trifling instalment towards the history of Worcestershire is now respectfully presented to its inhabitants, and the Author ventures to express a hope that it may meet with the general favour of the reading public, equal to that which his previous works have elicited.
Another trifling instalment towards the history of Worcestershire is now respectfully presented to its inhabitants, and the Author ventures to express a hope that it may meet wi...
2. Part 2An archdeacon was also married in the chapel of the Bishop's Palace at Worcester, and an entry in this register duly records the fact. Marriages were solemnized here between per...
3. Part 3It would seem that the poor were cared for as well as the imperfect arrangements of those days permitted. Minute details are given of the "rigging out" of parish apprentices. In...
4. Part 4One of the latest instances of touching for the "King's Evil" occurs in 1711, when 11s. were "paid Rogers for carrying of Walker to London to be touched," and even children were...
5. Part 5"I have perused the pleadings in a case between John Berkeley, Esq., plaintiff, and John Sparrow and Thomas Butler, churchwardens of St. Peter's, defendants, and find that the i...
6. Part 6The sum of £134 was expended in the repair of the church in the year 1718, and seven years later £2. 8s. for a font, £22. 5s. 8d. for communion plate, and £4. 10s. for a communi...
7. Part 7The earliest order book for this parish commences with 1670, the register 1694, and the account book 1695. Older records are supposed to have been washed away or to have perishe...
8. Part 8In the month of August, 1666, Ann Powell, spinster, of Kington, lays an information that "upon St. James's Day last she and one Elizabeth Daffye, widow, having discours together...
9. Part 9"The humble petition of ye poore inhabitants of ye Tything of Whistones, humbly showeth, that the said inhabitants, through the greatness of the several taxes and dayley increas...
10. Part 10"Three strangers blaze amidst the bonfire's revel: The Pope, and the Pretender, and the Devil. Three strangers hate our faith and faith's defender: The Devil, and the Pope, and...
11. Part 11We now arrive at something more stirring, and may have an interesting peep at a conventicle of "Fifth Monarchy Men" at Oldbury. This sect of religionists had for their distingui...
12. Part 12If the above refers to the celebrated Lady Mary Yate (a daughter of the house of Pakington) who is commemorated on a monument in Chaddesley Church as having died in 1696, at the...
13. Part 13A Manuscript was recently discovered in the Worcester Chapter library, which is believed to be unique in this country--at least there is no record of any similar one having ever...
14. Part 14The warrant from the Commissioners, dated October 20th of the above year, required "fower or five sufficient inhabitants of every parrish to enquier by all good wayes and meanes...
15. Part 15It is in the highest degree unlucky to give your neighbour a light at Christmas time, or New Year's Day; and those who have neglected to lay in a stock of matches at that season...
16. Part 16was in old times an established institution. In 1666 the Chamberlain of the Worcester Corporation spent £10. 14s. in an entertainment to Mr. Gratrix, "an Irishman famous for hel...
17. Part 17In the sandstone blocks lying in Whelpley and Sapey brooks, on the borders of this county and Herefordshire, are indentations which are accounted for in this way. St. Katharine...
18. Part 18The neighbourhood of Abberton, Flyford Flavel, Wick, Naunton Beauchamp, and other rural parishes in that district, celebrate weddings by serenading the house of the newly-marrie...
19. Part 19though nearly banished by the advance of education and improved manners, is occasionally performed in the secluded parts of this district. The usage is, that when a male strange...
20. Part 20At the churches of Leigh and Rouse Lench, above the doors, exteriorly, is in each case a niche containing a figure--one of the Saviour, and the other supposed to be of St. Peter...
21. Part 21In the Essex papers published three or four years ago the following description is given of this county and city, and also of Hereford: "On the 30th, Wharton writes again--'Worc...
22. Part 22"July the 25 Anno 1723;-- With God's good leave this is my last will Which to deceive is past man's skill I do bequeath unto his hill. My soul for to abide My body to be turned...
23. Part 23THE BLACK SILK GOWN.--This is an undress gown of the Lord Chancellor, Judges, Queen's Counsel, and Serjeants-at-Law, none of them wearing his full dress gown in an assize town e...
24. Part 24Traces of ancient vineyards are abundant in this county. At Great Hampton is a place called "Vineyard Hill," where a vinery was established in the Conqueror's time. ("_Et vinea...
25. Part 25There is another described as "PHILLIP CROSS," in all other respects the same; it may be an error of the die-sinker or describer. This is interesting from having the earliest da...
26. Part 26Richard Skinner, of Coston Hacket, Esquire 25 0 0 Thomas Good, of Redmarley Dabitot, Esquire 30 0 0 William Child, of Shrawley, Esquire 25 0 0 John Wrenford, of Longden, Gent. 1...
27. Part 27The unfortunate upholder of "divine right in kings" passed to his account in January, 1649. In 1651, Charles II escaped with his forces out of Scotland, and marching through the...
28. Part 28The WORCESTER HERALD has been for years at the head of the Worcestershire Press, having a circulation _nearly double_ that of _any other_ paper published _in the County_; and co...