Antiquities of Shropshire, Volume 3J.R. Smith, 1856 - Shropshire (England) |
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Abbey Abbot acres Adam Alice Alveley annual annum appears Assizes Astley attesting Barony Benthall Bishop Bobbington Broseley Brug Burwarton carucate Charter Chelmarsh Church Claverley Cleobury North County Court Crown deceased Deed demesne Ditton Domesday dorso Dudmaston Earl Escheator feoffment ferm Fitz Alan Gatacre Geoffrey grant Hamo Haughmond heirs held Henry hide hold Hugford Hugh de Mortimer Hundred Ibidem Inquest Inquisitions John Fitz Philip Jurors Jury King Edward King's Kinver Knights land Laverden Lord Manor merks messuage Michaelmas Milburg Monasticon Morf Forest mort d'ancestre Neenton Nicholas Nordley Parish Pipe Roll Placita Plaintiff Posenhall Presthope Prior of Wenlock probably Quat Quatford Ralph Rector rent Richard Robert Roger Salop Sanctæ Saxon Serjeantry Sheriff Shrewsbury Shropshire Staffordshire Stottesden Strange suit Supra Tallage Tenants tenement tenure thereof Thomas tithes Valor Ecclesiasticus Vicar virgate Walter Warin Wenlock Priory wife Wigmore William Fitz Worfield Writ
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Page 122 - Henry King of England and Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and Earl of Anjou confirmed by his own charter for a pure and perpetual alms, as in the charter of the aforesaid Bishop touching the aforesaid foundation and gift is more fully contained. And they say that the said Priory...
Page 155 - Peter, and the heirs of their bodies, and in default of such heirs to persons to be nominated by the grantors.
Page 224 - ... now to be mentioned, and may have derived his information from legendary sources of doubtful accuracy. William of Malmesbury, who wrote in the earlier half of the twelfth century, tells us that St. Milburge, daughter of Merewald, (who founded Leominster Priory,) niece of Wulphere, and grand-daughter of Penda, kings of Mercia, lived in a nunnery at Wenlock, and was buried there ; moreover that the said nunnery was forsaken before the arrival of the Normans, and the place of the saint's sepulture...
Page 219 - Hetheuedich to the weir (gurgitem) of Quatford : and so going up by the Severn to a certain ancient ditch, between the field of Brugge and the vill of Quatford : and along the highway to the House of the Lepers of St. James of Brugge : and thence right to a certain ancient ditch under the Gyhet (GibbetHill) ; and so straight to Baconescroft, going down to Tissengecros ; and so by the highway going up to Pendestanes Mulne, where the first boundary of the said base begins. The Perambulators also declare...
Page 224 - Wenlock was the oldest and most privileged, perhaps the wealthiest and most magnificent, of the religious houses of Shropshire.
Page 225 - ... that the nunnery was founded by St. Milburge herself, and that she presided therein as abbess. St. Milburge was sister of St. Mildred, and if her parentage be correctly described, she must have lived in the end of the seventh century, when also all that is true of the particulars quoted above must have taken place. Whatever was the nature of this first ecclesiastical foundation at Wenlock, the lapse of two centuries left little of it remaining beyond the sanctity of the foundress' name, and the...
Page 219 - Severn : 15 and so going up along the bank of Worgh to Worthbrugg (Worf-bridge), and going up thence along the said bank to...
Page 212 - Coed, or forest—the forest, that is, par excellence of this part of England. " When we read of the Forests of Morf, Kinver, and Wyre, we get notions of extent which must be added one to the other before we can realize any idea of the more ancient Coed; for the Coed was the parent of the other three, and they perhaps not its only constituents.
Page 224 - ... For the germ of this splendid foundation we must revert to times of extreme antiquity, and accept the testimony of a writer, who, however trustworthy, lived more than four centuries after the event now to be mentioned, and may have derived his information from legendary sources of doubtful accuracy. William of Malmesbury, who wrote in the earlier half of the twelfth century, tells us that St. Milburge, daughter of Merewald, (who founded Leominster Priory,) niece of Wulphere, and grand-daughter...
Page 213 - Kinver. By still further compression of its southern boundaries, and by large clearances within its area, Morf Forest had, at the Norman Conquest, been altered both in extent and character. But the Forest ground, though alternated with cornfields and villages, was still very great, and very great it remained for more than two Centuries afterwards.