Wirral Notes and Queries, Being Local Gleanings, Historical and Antiquarian, Relating to the Hundred of Wirral, from Many Sources, Volumes 1-2Willmer Bros. and Company, Limited, 1893 |
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aforesaid Alice Anne April Backford baptized Bebington Bennet Bidston Parish BIDSTON REGISTERS Birkenhead Bishop bon iiili Bromborough buried Charnock Cheshire Chester Churchwardens Claughton Continued Curate daughter Dean Eastham Edward Elizabeth Ellen Executors FERGUSSON IRVINE Gill Glegg Hancocke Henrico Henry Heswall Hiccock Hockenhull Hooton Hugh Hundred of Wirral id id iiid iiiid James James Anderton Jane January Johe John John Eaton July June Kempe Lord March Margaret Margery married Mary Massey Meoles Moreton Murcot Neston October Oxton Parish Church Pemberton Peter Poole pro iiili pro xls Rathbone Rector Richard Richard Sherlock Rico Robert Robto Rowland Saughall Saughall-Massey Sherlock Shotwick Smyth sonne SUBSIDY ROLL Thomas Thos Thurstaston Tottie Tranmere tyme unto Upton Urmston Vicar Vide burials Vide christenings vide weddings viiis Wallasey West Kirby widow wife Wilcocke Willmo Wilson Woodchurch
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Page 36 - I AB do swear, That I do approve the doctrine and discipline or government established in the church of England, as containing all things necessaray to salvation, and that I will not endeavour by myself or any other, directly or indirectly, to bring in any Popish doctrine contrary to that which is so established, nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans and archdeacons, &c.
Page 36 - Popish* doctrine, contrary to that which is so established ; nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, &c. as it stands now established, and as by right it ought to stand, nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the see of Rome.
Page 57 - ... scattered so abundantly over the South of England are passages across rivers for men and cattle (Bland-ford, Dart-ford, and Walling-ford are examples), but the ' fords ' of the Scandinavian sea-rovers are passages for ships, up the arms of the sea, like the fjords of Norway and the firths of Scotland — these Norse ' fords ' are found on the coasts which were frequented for the purposes of trade or plunder.
Page 44 - Prison again, and his house permitted to be plunder'd by y e souldiers, who despoild him not of his goods only, but of his books and papers, which they exposed to sale at a very low rate ; and so by private directions to some of his friends, he repurchas'd some of the most necessary for his own use.
Page 64 - ... thrice, in pity to the many claims upon my pen. Mrs. Wingfield pressed me to send her brother, Lord Bagot, a copy. However warmly I may approve the existence of the aristocratic link in that chain of subordination, so necessary to the good of every country, I yet feel the extremest reluctance to push myself upon the notice of the great, and somewhat reluctantly consented to her proposal ; but I have had no reason to repent my acquiescence. Lord Bagot has written to me twice on the occasion, with...
Page 62 - ... that suffering Church to which he professed himself so much attached. In conclusion, he boldly desired rather that his representations might be attended to, or that he might be discharged from a service which had become so irksome to him ; and this, it must be remembered, at a time when the regular clergy were starving, and he himself would not have known where to have procured a subsistence. Sir Robert Bindloss had too much generosity to take him at his word, though it is not unlikely that he...
Page 28 - Note are there in it ? 2. Are there any Papists in your Parish, and how many, and of what Rank ? Have any Persons been lately perverted to Popery, and by whom, and by what means ? And how many, and who are they ? Is there any place in your Parish in which they assemble for worship, and where is it ? Doth any Popish Priest reside in your Parish, or resort to it, and by what name doth he go...
Page 60 - Church, where marriage was contracted between them by the utterance of the following mutual promise : he saying, "Joan, I plight thee my troth to "take and hold thee as my lawful wife unto my '• life's end ;" and she replying, "I. Joan, take thee, '' William, as my lawful husband.
Page 15 - The most valuable and important of these test-words is byr or by. This word originally meant a dwelling, or a single farm, and hence it afterwards came to denote a village...
Page 29 - V., declaring that no man, of what estate, degree, or condition whatsoever should assume arms, or coats of arms, unless he held, or ought to hold, them by right of inheritance, or by the donation of some person who had sufficient power to give them ; and that all persons should make it appear, to officers to be appointed by the said king for that purpose, by whose gift they...