. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. he kings booksat £6. 0. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown; im-propriator, the Earl of Gosford. The great titheshavebeen commuted for £400, and the vicarial for £142; theglebe comprises 8 acr
. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. he kings booksat £6. 0. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown; im-propriator, the Earl of Gosford. The great titheshavebeen commuted for £400, and the vicarial for £142; theglebe comprises 8 acres. The church is an ancient struc-ture in the decorated English style, with a square em-battled tower, and contains several monuments to theLeman family. There is a place of worship for Wesley-ans. William Pepyn in 1562, and Reginald Lessey in1563, bequeathed land for the support of a school WENLOCK, or MuchWenlock (Holy Trinity),a borough, market-town, andparish, having separate juris-diction, and the head of aliberty, in theunion of Made-ley, S. division of Salop, 12miles (S. E.) from Shrews-bury, and 148 (N. W.) fromLondon 5 containing 2487inhabitants, of whom 947 arein the township. Of thisplace, which is of consider- Corporation Seal. able antiquity, the British name was Llan Meilien, or St. Milburghs Church ; in the Monasticon it is de-nominated Winnica, or the windy place. Its early. WE N L WENN importance was derived from the establishment of a con-vent, about 680, by Milburga, daughter of King Merwald,and niece of Wulthere, King of Mercia, who presided asabbess, and at her death was interred here. Havingbeen destroyed by the Danes, the convent was restoredby Leofric, Earl of Mercia, in the time of Edward theConfessor, after which it fell into decay. It was rebuilt,or repaired, soon after the Conquest, by Robert deMontgomery, who largely endowed it, converted it intoa priory for Cluniac monks, and dedicated it to St. Mil-burga : at the Dissolution, the revenue was v
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