The History of Wigan, Volume 1Wall, 1882 - Wigan (England) |
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afterwards Angliæ Anthony St appointed assizes bailiffs barons bell Bishop Blackrod borough borough aforesaid Bradshaigh Bridgeman and Alex Bridgeman and Robert burgesses Burgum century chantry charter court custom dissolved Earl of Derby Edrus Edward Edward Bridgeman Edward III election England estates feoffees Fleetwood gen.-Alex Grammar School granted Guild Hæredibus nostris heirs Henry honour inhabitants James Johes John and Edw John Mansel justices king knights labour Lancashire Lancaster land Langeton liberties living Lord Lord Derby Lord of Ireland manor Mayor of Wigan merchants Miles Gerard nobis et Hæredibus Orlando Bridgeman Parish Church Parliament of George Parsonæ Ecclesiæ persons prædicti prosperity quod Radus rector Rector of Wigan reign religious Richard Ricus Rigby and Orlando Rigby and Robert Robert Gardner Robtus Roman royal Saxons schollars seal sheriffs Sir Roger Bradshaigh Standish successors Tory town trade Whig whilst Wigan Willus Winwick
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Page 180 - NO man shall teach either in public school, or private house, but such as shall be allowed by the Bishop of the diocese, or Ordinary of the place, under his hand and seal, being found meet as well for his learning and dexterity in teaching, as for sober and honest conversation, and also for right understanding of God's true religion...
Page 80 - Edward by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine...
Page 136 - There is tail-general and tail-special, and Littleton is very copious in that theme; for tail-general is when lands are given to a man and his heirs of his body begotten; tail-special is when lands are given to a man and to his wife, and to the heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten; and that is called tail-special.
Page 86 - Last week a woman that keeps the Queen's Head alehouse at Kingston, in Surrey, was ordered by the court to be ducked for scolding, and was accordingly placed in the chair, and ducked in the river Thames, under Kingston Bridge, in the presence of 2000 or 3000 people.
Page 161 - Where they employed themselves so throughly in the cause of religion, that then ensued a most plentiful detection of 600 recusants by oath presented; as also the indictment of 87 of them (as many as for the time could be preferred to the jury). And further a notification by oath of 21 vagrant priests usually received in Lancashire; and 25 notorious houses of receit for them.
Page 109 - Every man or woman," runs this famous provision, " of whatsoever condition, free or bond, able in body, and within the age of threescore years, . . . and not having of his own whereof he may live, nor land of his own about the tillage of which he may occupy himself, and not serving any other, shall be bound to serve the employer who shall require him to do so, and shall take only the wages which were accustomed to be taken in the neighbourhood where he is bound to serve " two years before the plague...
Page 72 - Henry, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and...
Page 112 - When he came to a beck, He fell and broke his neck, — Johnny, how dost thou now ? I made him a hat, Of my coat-lap, And stockings of pearly blue : A hat and a feather, To keep out cold weather ; So, Johnny, how dost thou now ? XCI.
Page 6 - The barbarians drive us to the sea ; the sea drives us back to the barbarians : between them we are exposed to two sorts of death ; we are either slain or drowned.
Page 101 - Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Abbatibus, Prioribus, Comitibus, Baronibus, Justiciariis, Vicecomitibus, praepositis, ministris, et omnibus Ballivis et fidelibus suis, salutem.