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The Annals of Willenhall

The Annals of Willenhall

by Frederick William Hackwood

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Author
Hackwood, Frederick William, 1851-
Credits
Transcribed from the 1908 Whitehead Bros. edition by David Price
Language
English
LoC Class
DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
Subject
Willenhall (Walsall, England)
Category
Text
eBook-No.
31675
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31675
Release Date
March 17, 2010
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Annals of Willenhall
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. 4.I.—Its Name and Its Antiquity
  5. 5.II.—The Battle of Wednesfield.
  6. 6.II.—The Saxon Settlement
  7. 7.IV.—The Founding of Wulfruna’s Church, 996, A.D.
  8. 8.V.—The Collegiate Establishment
  9. 9.VI—Willenhall at the Norman Conquest (1066–1086).
  10. 10.VII.—A Chapel and a Chantry at Willenhall.
  11. 11.VIII.—Willenhall in the Middle Ages.
  12. 12.IX.—The Levesons and other old Willenhall families.
  13. 13.X.—Willenhall Endowments at the Reformation.
  14. 14.XI.—How the Reformation Affected Willenhall.
  15. 15.XII.—Before the Reformation—and After.
  16. 16.XIII.—A Century of Wars, Incursions, and Alarms (1640–1745).
  17. 17.XIV.—Litigation Concerning the Willenhall Prebend (1615–1702).
  18. 18.XV.—Willenhall Struggling to be a Free Parish.
  19. 19.XVI.—Dr. Richard Wilkes, of Willenhall (1690–1760).
  20. 20.XVII.—Willenhall “Spaw.”
  21. 21.XVIII.—The Benefice.
  22. 22.XIX.—How a Flock Chose its own Shepherd.
  23. 23.XX.—The Election of 1894, and Since.
  24. 24.XXI.—Willenhall Church Endowments.
  25. 25.XXII.—The Church Charities: The Daughter Churches. — 1.— Prestwood’s Dole . — 2.— Pedley’s Charity . — 3.— Charities of John Tomkys and George Welch . — 4.— John Bates’s Charity .
  26. 26.XXIII.—The Fabric of the Church.
  27. 27.XXIV.—Dissent, Nonconformity, and Philanthrophy.
  28. 28.XXV.—Manorial Government.
  29. 29.XXVI.—Modern Self-Government.
  30. 30.XXVII.—The Town of Locks and Keys.
  31. 31.XXVIII.—Willenhall in Fiction.
  32. 32.XXIX.—Bibliography.
  33. 33.XXX.—Topography.
  34. 34.XXXI.—Old Families and Names of Note.
  35. 35.XXXII.—Manners and Customs.
  36. 36.INDEX
  37. 37.Footnotes:

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