INDEX.
Reading edition
PAGE.
Adams 211
Addenbrooke 242
Anstice, J. 176, 234
„ J. A. 178
„ Memorial 177
„ R. E. 178
,, William 86, 91, 101, 173
,, W. R 176, 179
Appendix i
Aqueduct 167
Ashwood 211
Assessment for carrying on a vigorous war 57
,, of Lands and Houses 102, 103
Astley 211
Astun 21
Badger 21, 234
Bagnall 192
Ballard, Phillip 159, 206
Banking Co. 352
Banks 192, 364
Baptists 172
Bartlam 241
Battlefield 218
Baugh 225
Beard 192
Beckbury 21
Bedlam Hall 333
Benefactions 217
Benson, Rev. J. 161
Benthall, Lawrence 230
Bicton Heath 248
Billingsley 195
Billy Holyoake 253
Bishton 75
Black Doctor 83
Black Rock 302, 307
Bleak 271
Blisser’s Hill 94, 102
Block House 333
Board of Conservators 268
Boden 192
Booth 239
Botfield 75
Bowdler 34
Bowlegs Tom 118
Boycott 249
Brick and Tile Works 302
Brewer 206
Bridges 236
Brockholes 59, 100
Brooke, Charity 40
,, and Beddow Charities 242
,, Family 10 to 15
,, Arms of 36
,, Pedigree of 39
,, Sir Basil 40
Brown, A. H., M.P. 236
Brown, Thomas 105
Buckland 174, 265, 266
Buckley 230
Burd, G. 241
Burgess 192
Burial without a Coffin 33
Bums, Ann, Jane, and Sarah 192
Burton, E. 241
Burton, John 260
Buy-a-Brooms 232
Caldbrooke 59, 100
,, Smithy 277
Capsi 329
Carolosa, William 45
Chapel of Ease 167
Charities 217
Charity Commissioners 243–4
Chell 192
Cholera and its victims 249
Chune 261
Church Accommodation 167
„ and the Moral and Religious Aspects of the people of Madeley, The 113
„ of England 166
„ of St. Mary 166
,, Register 53
Clark 194
Claverley 12
Clay Industries 181, 367
Cludd 224
Coaches 341
Coal and Iron Industries Coalbrookdale Co. 59
,, description of 274
,, Lum Hole 275
„ Old Hearth Plates 278
„ Origin of Name 276
„ Smithy Place, &c. 277
Coalfield 94
Coalport Chapel 159
Coalport Incline 94
Coalport Works 191
Cobbett 198
Cold October 23rd 19
Collection of Fossils 174
Congregationalists 172
Constables, Instructions to 58, 221
Constablewicks 220
Coneberry 218
Cope 224
Copper Tokens 94
Coracles 270
Cort 61
Counsells opinion 105
County Courts 238
Court House 8, 40
„ „ Chapel of 43
,, Farm 106
„ Leet 240
Courts for the recovery of debts 238
Craneges 60
Crookes 299
Crowther 198
Dace 271
Daniel, The Messrs. 201
Darbys, The 60
„ Abraham, the first 40
„ ,, uses coke in blast furnaces 281
„ Abraham, the second first uses coal in the forge and lays down iron rails 281
,, Abraham, the third, erects first iron bridge 281
Davies, William 230
Dearman, Richard 109
Deerclose 218
Devil, the 120
Dickenson, Henry 210, 260
Discussion on Education 300
Dispensary, the 240
Distress, periods of 74, 95, 108
Domesday 22
Dorsett, William 206
Doughty, J. D. 260
Dundonald, Earl 95
Dyas 192, 194
Dyott 218
Easter Dues 38
Edmonds, Daniel 132
Edmunds, Printer 194
Edwards, E. 260
Eels 266
Erroneous Tradition 44
Evans 192
Events relating to Madeley 102
Exhibition, 1851 202
Explosion of Powder 174
Extinct and Ancient Names 218
Extract from Old Book in Church Chest 116
Farnworth 192
Ferrars 10, 36
Firmstone 242
First Boot Printed at Madeley 194
Fletcher 192
„ Rev. J. W., Sketch of 123 to 156
Fletcher, Mrs. 157 to 160
Flounders 266
Ford 306
Forest of the Wrekin 22, 236
,, Laws 11
Forester 236
Fosbrooke, Roger Appendix
Foster, James 41
Foster, W. O. 100
Fossils 86
Fox, John 266
Fowler, Matthew, Roger 13
Fuller 59, 100
Gaskell 236
Gelson, Mr. 203
George III. 73
Giffard 40
Glazebrook, James 180
Good 262
Goodin 24
Goodwin 214
Goosetree 251
Gower, Earl 65
Graham 299
Grant, Alexander 241
Gray 206
Great Fire 54
Great Land Flood at the Dale 288
Gwyther 215
Hales Farm 106
Hales field pits 174
Hancock 201
Hay 328
,, house 332
Hayes 249
Hayward 225
Harrington 45
Hawking 327
Hawley, Sir Joseph 106–7
Hemmings 342
Heslop, Adam 362
Hibernia, the 341
Hicks 239
Hill 132
Hill’s Lane Pits 174
Homfray 232
Hopyard 218
Hornblower 365
Horton 242
House to house visitation 55
Hunting Lodge 331
Idle Tales 117
Imps 121
Inclined Planes 92–3–4
Invention of Printers’ Rollers by Mr. Dyas 194
Ironbridge 334 to 369
,, Church 168 and 350
Ironworks, first 60
“John Brown’s Dolls” 172
Johnson 194
King Charles’s Visit to and Concealment at Madeley Also see Appendix 45 to 54
Landslips 142, 174
Law of Settlement 55
Lawrence, Sarah 159
Lawson 34
Legge 219
Leigh 192
Lewis 227
L’Hirondelle 340
Lincoln Hill 350
Lister, Thomas 217
Littlehales 34
Lloyds, The 333
Locomotive, the first intended to be used on a railroad 180
Lord Chief Justice Brooke 35
Lord Thurlow 74
Lowe 192
Luccock, Benjamin, Thomas, and Adam 284–5–6
Madbrook 6
Maddison 194
Madeley as part of the Franchise of Wenlock 220
„ China Works 205
„ Church 210
,, Church, subject to mother Church of Wenlock 165
,, Early History of 6
,, Church, Rectors of 21
„ Market 219
,, Origin of Name 5
,, Proposed Improvements 259
,, Religious aspect in Fletcher’s day 161
,, „ at present time 165
„ Union 241
,, Wood 100
„ Works 173
,, ,, Number of Vessels on the Severn 251
Manor House 9
,, Court 9
,, Deed of Sale 23
,, Mill 9
,, Sold to R. Broke 27
Market House 53
Maw, Arthur 24
Melancholy Event 193
Melville Home 122, 164
Methodism 163
Millstone Grit 314
Minton 204
Molyneux 13
Montgomery 79
Morris, Mason 225
Morris, W. 249
Mountford 192
Mount St. Gilbert 8
Municipal Reform Act 234
Mural Monuments 211 to 216
Murchison, Sir R. 174
Murdock 179
Nantgarw 190
Nicholls 214
Norris, W. G. 241
Oaths of Supremacy 56
Old Barn 152
Old Beer 292
Old Book 115
Old Roberts 98
Owen, John 260
Owen, W. Y. 351
Paston, William 109
Pattrick 217
Perambulation of Forests 22
Perch 271
Perks, George 157
Petty Sessions 236
Phillips 202
Pike 271
Polling District 351
Poll Tax 56
Poole 192
Population 167
Potts, E. B. 239
Powell 225
Press Laws 57
Prestwich 174
Primitive Methodists 171
Proctor, J. 241
Public Houses Appendix
Pugh, Charles 203
Pugh, William 201
Purtron 218
Quakers 295
Railways 343
Randall, Martin 206 to 210
Ratcliff, Edmund 203
Rathbone 53, 71
Religious aspect of Madeley 161, 165
Rent and valuation of lands 58
Reynoldses the 60
Reynolds William 81
,, Anecdotes of 97–8
,, Death of 101
,, Predicts Steam Locomotion 91
,, Prophetic Utterances of 179
Riffle Corps 351
Roberts 351, 253
,, William 206
Robin Hood 252
Rock Church 132
Rogers, Arundel 239
Rose, John 196
Rose, Thomas & Fredk. Wm. 201
Rose, John, Presentation to 200
Rose du Barry, re-discovered 201
Rotunda 347
Royal Dessert Service 201
Rushton Farm 106
Sadler 365
Salmon 270
Salopian, young and old 341
“Sammy Walters” 232
Saville 241
Scarcity of Wheat at Madeley 107
Scott, Captain 168
Serfs 18
Severn, the 254
,, As a source of food 262
,, Fish which no longer frequent the river 266–7
,, Fish which now frequent the river 270
,, No. of vessels 256
,, Mundella’s fresh water fishing Act 268
,, Proposed improvements 269
,, The Coracle 270
„ Traffic on the 261
Severn Valley 71
Shad 266
Sheat, George 192
Sheep Stealing 230
Slang 14
Smith, Thomas 217
Smith, W. E. 241
Smitheman 113, 212, 230
Smithy Place 31
Smoke penny 33, 54
Sniggy Oaks 96
Soames 241
Sommerville 236
Sprott 212
Spruce, Barnabas 292
Steam Engine, Infancy of 362
Stephens 224–5
Stephenson, Robert 338
Stringer, John 33
Stubbs 241
Sunday Morning Meetings 159
Superstition 115
Swinfield 20
Tankard, Silver presented by King Charles 53
Tar Tunnel 94, 320
Tax upon Births, Marriages, and Burials 57
Taylor, Jeremy 33
Telford 365
Terrier 32
Tithes 32
Thursfield, T. G. 241
Thompson 229
Tithe Commissioners 106
Titley 300
Tooth, Miss 159, 160
Tramroad subterranean 91
Trilobites 216
Trout 270
Turner, Thomas 205
Tyche’s Nest 348
Urban’s Magazine 364
Vagrants and sturdy beggars 56
Vicar, dispute with 33, 105
Visit to Paupers 248
Wagons covered 340
Wakeley 230
Walker 192, 195
Walters, Rev. S. 218
Walton 351
Warham 229
Washbrook 9
Wayne, Rev. H. 248
Weager, Israel 252
Webb 241
Webb, Capt. 367, 368
Weld 230
Wesley, Charles 163
„ John 159
Wesleyan Methodism 169
,, Places of Worship connected therewith 170
Wheatley 218
Wheeler, Thos. 206
White House 296
Whitfield, Rev. George 163
Wilkinson 365
Willcox 332
Windmill Farm 106
Wintour, Rev. G. 249
Witches 121
Wolfe’s Barn 45
Wolfe, Family of 53
Wood, William 33
Wootton 194
Wrekin 67
Wyley 107
Yate 268
Yate, Joseph 32
York, Thos. 132