The History of the Church & Manor of Wigan in the County of Lancaster, Volume 15Chetham society, 1888 - Wigan (England) |
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advowson aforesaid afterwards Alice annual assizes bailiffs Banastre barons benefice bishop of Chester borough burgesses Chancellor chapel charter Cheshire Chetham Tract Christian Fleetwood church of Wigan clerk county of Lancaster dated death defendants Duchy of Lancaster Earl of Derby Edward Fleetwood Eliz gent granted hath heirs honour Hugh Ibid James de Langton John de Winwick John Ketchyn John Maunsell John Winstanley King's knight Lanc Lancashire Lancaster Pleadings lands late Lawrence de Standish lease letter liberties Linacre Linacre's London Lord lordship Master Adam matter Mayor Neve's Fasti Newton Nicholas Towneley parish church parish of Wigan parson of Wigan parsonage patron pleas prebend Ralph Langton rector Rector of Wigan rent resigned RICHARD COPLEY CHRISTIE Richard Kyghley Richard Smyth Robert de Langton Rymer's Fadera Sir Ralph Sir Thomas Langton statute merchant successors tenants thereof Thomas Gerrard Thomas Linacre tithes town of Wigan unto VIII William Gerrard Winwick
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Page 119 - ... order, and were disburdened of divers great and intolerable charges and exactions before that time unlawfully taken and exacted by such foreign power and authority as before that •was usurped, until such time as all the said good laws and statutes, by one Act of Parliament made in the first and second years of the reigns of the late King Philip and Queen Mary, your...
Page 99 - Ibid, p. 48. 3 Ibid. In speaking of Liverpool he says " Lyrpole, alias Lyverpoole, a pavid Towne hath but a Chapel. Walton a iiii Miles of not far from the Se is Paroche Chirche"; and he describes Warrington as a better market than Manchester (ib.
Page 143 - Coventry, by virtue of which the predecessors of the said defendants were seised in their demesne as of fee of and in the...
Page 61 - I seem to be listening to Plato himself. Who does not admire in Grocyn the perfection of training ? What can be more acute, more profound, or more refined than the judgment of Linacre? What has nature ever fashioned gentler, sweeter or pleasanter than the disposition of Thomas More...
Page 28 - Ralph, was seized as of fee and of right, in time of peace, in the time of King...
Page 42 - Steward of our household, and others ; given by our hand at Westminster the 4th day of August, in the 24th year of our reign over England, and in the nth year of our reign over France.
Page 135 - In moste humble wise complayninge, showeth unto your honor your supplyaunt and dayly orator Edward Fleetwood, parson of [Wiggan in the] countie of Lane', clerke, that whereas your said orator and all his predecessors, the late parsons of the said rectorie and parsonage, [by all the time whereof the] memory of man ys not to the contrary, have been seized in their demesne as of fee, as in the right of their church of [and in the mannor lordshipp or towne of Wiggan] in the said countie of Lane...