Barthomley in Letters From a Former Rector to His Eldest Son - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 115054256X ISBN 13: 9781150542565

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. In my memoir of Sir Robert Fulleshurst it is stated that he married Elizabeth Praers after the battle of Poictiers; this proves to be incorrect. Long after the foregoing pages were printed, Mr. Jones, of Nantwich, forwarded to me the following discovery, which arrived too late to enable me to amend what was originally written:-- By an ancient charter, to which the seal of Sir John Griffin, Knt., is appended, bearing date, the 27th year of the reign of King Edward the Third, [1353,] it appears, that the valiant Kobert Fulleshurst, one of Lord Audley's Esquires at the battle of Poictiers, had previously married Miss Elizabeth Praers, the heiress of Barthomley, whose wife she, consequently, must have been three years before that celebrated battle was fought. By way of appendix to our notice of the FuUethurtt Family, the following singular licence may, perhaps, as a relic of a by-gone age, not be unworthy of insertion : Lord of a Manor's ] "Be it knowne untoe all men, That I Robert FullesMarriage Licence. ] " hurst of Crue, in the Countye of Chester Esquire do " herebye gyve and grant untoe Wylliam Bykerton of "Wystaston in the same Countye Licence that he " shal tak to Wyff Isabelle Dawter of Robert Lee my " Tennant of a Message and Lands in Crue. " Witnesses: " Dated the Syxtenth Day of March 1576, "Randell Mynshall, "Signed, Robert Fulleshurst Francis Stanway, Jas. Lee, Thomas Damport" Barthomley Chapel.--At a very early period, there existed, in Barthomley, a chapel, as well as the church, of which chapel, in the reign of King Edward the Fourth (1464), Thomas Smythe was chaplain; Richard Keffes, clerk, being then rector of Barthomley. Nearly a century afterwards, 24th Hen. 8. (1533), Richard Birches was chaplain of this chapel; Robert Fulleshu...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 115054256X
• ISBN 13: 9781150542565
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
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