The Annals of Willenhall
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Chapters (551)
- 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
- Footnotes:
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