Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 8 |
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abbot aforesaid Agnes Alice Amounderness Anne appointed April August bapt baptized bequeath Bispham Boteller brother buried at Poulton carucates chapel charter Chester Chet church of Pulton churchwardens daughter December died Dodsworth Dodsworth MSS Duchy Edmund Fleetwood Edward Bamber Edward Fleetwood Elizabeth executors ffebruarie filia filius Johis George Carleton George Shaw George Singleton Goosnargh Grange granted Hall Harrison heir held Henry Hesketh Ibid issue James January Jenet John filius John Hull July June Kirkham Lancashire Lancaster Laton Little Carleton living Loxham manor March Margaret married Marton Marton Mere Mary messuage Moore Normosse November October parish church Peter White post mort Preston Pulton church queen Record office registers Richard Cropper Robert Robte Rossall September sheriff sonne Staining Stalmine Stanlawe tenement Thomas Thorneton tithes vicar vicar of Poulton vicarage Whiteside widow wife William William Winstanley Willm wyff yeoman
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Page 157 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the Gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions ; and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 54 - But ye, beloved building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Page 39 - Pulton church, with the other possessions of the priory of Lancaster, passed to the crown, but only to be again used for endowments. The king by his royal charter, dated at Westminster 3 March, 1415, founded within his manor of Islesworth, in the county of Middlesex, a religious house of the Bridgetine order, which was to be called "The Monastery of St. Saviour and St. Bridget of Syon of the order of St. Augustine...
Page 62 - Western extremity of the church, is the following inscription : -'This church was enlarged in the year 1830, by which means 487 additional sittings were obtained; and, in consequence of a grant from the 'Incorporated Society for promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels...
Page 51 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. They rest from their labours and their works do follow them.
Page 4 - They thus cover a period of fifty-five years, commencing circa AD 353 : Mr. WT Watkin thinks they were concealed in the first decade of the fifth century, at the time of the abandonment of Britain by the Romans, and pronounces them to be the latest in point of date yet discovered in Lancashire.1 The coins of Flavius Victor and Eugenius are very rare.
Page 198 - The water of the wells also had a sovereign virtue for healing diseases of men and cattle. Fairy well is even yet visited for such a purpose. To succeed in obtaining a cure, however, the patient, escorted by his friends, was made to pass through the cairn, then he was sprinkled or dipped in the well, and lastly, he made an offering of a shell, a pin, a rusty nail, or rag, but principally three white stones burnt in the Teanla fire.
Page 173 - Carleton, and of 3 messuages, 20 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, 20 acres of moor and turbary in Carleton — the manor and these being worth £3.