Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and ChesterChetham Society., 1888 - Cheshire (England) |
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advowson aforesaid afterwards Alice annual appointed assizes bailiffs barons benefice bishop bishop of Chester borough burgesses chapel charter Cheshire Chester Chetham Tract church of Wigan clerk county of Lancaster dated death defendants died Duchy of Lancaster Earl of Derby Edward Fleetwood Eliz gent granted hath heirs Henry VIII honour Hugh Ibid James de Langton John de Winwick John Ketchyn John Maunsell John Winstanley King's knight Lancashire Lancaster Pleadings lands late Lawrence de Standish lease letter liberties Linacre Linacre's London Lord lordship manor of Wigan Master Adam matter Matthew Paris Mayor Neve's Fasti Newton Nicholas Towneley parson of Wigan parsonage patron pleas prebend present Queen Ralph Langton rector Rector of Wigan reign rent Richard Kyghley Richard Smyth Robert de Langton Rymer's Fadera says Sir Ralph Sir Thomas Langton successors tenants thereof Thomas Gerrard Thomas Linacre tithes town of Wigan tyme unto VIII William Gerrard Winwick
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Page 39 - Langetone, &c., tortiously deforces him of the advowson of the chapel of Wygan, and tortiously for this, that it is his right and heritage, and whereof one of his ancestors, named Ralph, was seized as of fee and of right, in time of peace, in the time of King Richard, cousin of our Lord the King that now is, whom God preserve, who in his lifetime presented his own clerk, Ulf by name, who on his presentation was received and instituted, &c., in the same time, which clerk took the...
Page 132 - ... 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 112 - 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 73 - 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 58 - John, sou of Robert, son of John de Langton and Alice his wife, and Agnes his wife, livery of his lands, taking security of him for payment of their relief. It was found by inquisition that John de Langton, clerk, by fine levied in 32 Edw. I. gave the manors of Walton in le Dale, Newton, and Langton, with the appurtenances, and the advowson of the church of Wigan, to John, son of Robert de Langton, and his wife Alice, and the heirs of the body of the said Alice by the said John begotten, with remainder...
Page 148 - 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...
Page 119 - A discourse wherein is debated whether it be expedient that the Scripture should be in English for al men to reade that wyll.