The Annals of Willenhall
Frederick William Hackwood
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The Annals of Willenhall
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The Annals of Willenhall
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
I.—Its Name and Its Antiquity
II.—The Battle of Wednesfield.
II.—The Saxon Settlement
IV.—The Founding of Wulfruna’s Church, 996, A.D.
V.—The Collegiate Establishment
VI—Willenhall at the Norman Conquest (1066–1086).
VII.—A Chapel and a Chantry at Willenhall.
VIII.—Willenhall in the Middle Ages.
IX.—The Levesons and other old Willenhall families.
X.—Willenhall Endowments at the Reformation.
XI.—How the Reformation Affected Willenhall.
XII.—Before the Reformation—and After.
XIII.—A Century of Wars, Incursions, and Alarms (1640–1745).
XIV.—Litigation Concerning the Willenhall Prebend (1615–1702).
XV.—Willenhall Struggling to be a Free Parish.
XVI.—Dr. Richard Wilkes, of Willenhall (1690–1760).
XVII.—Willenhall “Spaw.”
XVIII.—The Benefice.
XIX.—How a Flock Chose its own Shepherd.
XX.—The Election of 1894, and Since.
XXI.—Willenhall Church Endowments.
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.
XXIII.—The Fabric of the Church.
XXIV.—Dissent, Nonconformity, and Philanthrophy.
XXV.—Manorial Government.
XXVI.—Modern Self-Government.
XXVII.—The Town of Locks and Keys.
XXVIII.—Willenhall in Fiction.
XXIX.—Bibliography.
XXX.—Topography.
XXXI.—Old Families and Names of Note.
XXXII.—Manners and Customs.
INDEX
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