Category: History - British
CHAPTER. PAGE. I.--Willenhall--Its Name and Antiquity 1 II.--The Battle of Wednesfield 5 III.--The Saxon Settlement 11 IV.--The Founding of Wulfruna's Church, A.D. 996 17 V.--The Collegiate Establishment 22 VI.--Willenhall at the Norman Conquest (1066-1086) 27 VII.--A Chapel a...
Whereas by a Commission awarded upon a Statute of 43 Elizabeth concerning Lands given to Charitable Uses upon the executinge of wch Comission the Inhabitants and Men of Willenha...
16. Chapter 16Among the old inns and taverns of the town the chief were the Neptune Inn, Walsall Street; the Bull's Head, Wolverhampton Street; the Hope and Anchor, Little London; the Bell In...
8. Chapter 8On entering the house, the visitor feels a pang of regret that the venerable building should ever have been degraded to the purposes of commerce; particularly as the fabric reta...
12. Chapter 12Thirty or more years ago a Mr. Stokes gave the Incumbent of Willenhall 500 pounds to be applied in his absolute discretion for the benefit of St. Giles's School. The interest un...
9. Chapter 9The gift of the living (says the same authority), or nomination of the minister or curate, is in the principal inhabitants that have lands of inheritance here. He is to be appro...
10. Chapter 10The voting (recorded on cards) resulted in favour of the Rev. William Elitto Rosedale, M.A., Rector of Canton, Cardiff, for whom there were 265, as against 26 given for the Rev....
4. Chapter 4Attendance at church was compulsory in the early days of the Anglican establishment. By statute (I, Elizabeth c. I., 23 Elizabeth c. I., and 3, James I. c. 4) every person was t...
14. Chapter 14The great American writer, be it noted, does not fail at the very outset to pay a well-deserved tribute to James Carpenter Tildesley, as the foremost authority on the subject, a...
2. Chapter 2Dr. Langford, in his "Staffordshire and Warwickshire" (p. 177), writing less than forty years ago, says that "a large number of tumuli exist near Wednesfield"; but the utilitari...
3. Chapter 3In the year 1338, Edward III. confirmed the charter of the church as a royal free chapter, giving the Dean the jurisdiction of a Court Leet, and a copyhold Court Baron, to be ca...
13. Chapter 13The existing Wesleyan Chapels, now under the direction of the Rev. A. Hann and the Rev. Walter Fytche, are five in number, namely, Union Street, Walsall Road, Monmer Lane, Short...
5. Chapter 5Now to resume the ecclesiastical history of the place. Willenhall was affected by the Reformation from two directions; first, through the mother church of Wolverhampton, of whic...
6. Chapter 6The Bill is only "feyned a yenst hym in pure males" [malice] for his great trouble and vexation, and loss of his goods. He did not riotously assemble with any persons in arms, n...
7. Chapter 7After the Civil War the Prebendaries found that they had suffered considerable losses by the acts of their predecessors; so it was determined by Thomas Wren, LL.D. (son of the a...
15. Chapter 15These master workmen indeed form a powerful aristocracy, nor is it possible to conceive one apparently more oppressive. They are ruthless tyrants; they habitually inflict upon t...
1. Chapter 1CHAPTER. PAGE. I.--Willenhall--Its Name and Antiquity 1 II.--The Battle of Wednesfield 5 III.--The Saxon Settlement 11 IV.--The Founding of Wulfruna's Church, A.D. 996 17 V.--Th...
17. Chapter 17{88} Claudy Phillips, as he was popularly called, seems to have been a man of considerable genius, though not without some of the eccentricities which sometimes accompany it. He...