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A Presentment from St. Micheal's Church, Worcester 1674c. Local Saints, Fairs and Markets. St. Georges Roman Catholic Church and a Fine Painting. Saint Augustine's Oak.. The Boundaries of the Worcester Diocese. Rector in Penance at Kemerton. The Enthronement of a Medival Bishop of Worcester. A Penance ordered on Two Clerks of Droitwich. Notes on the Reformation in Worcester. William Tyndale, and the Translation of the Bible into English. Worcester Priors Mitred. High Street Public Houses.
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A Presentment from St. Micheal's Church, Worcester, 1674
The Churchwardens present that;The church is in good order. John Flaye and his wife, Adam Symonds and his wife, John Wood and his wife, Richard Flayer and his wife, John Annen and his wife, Francis Smith and his wife, Mary Stram and Elizabeth Andrews, being more>> |
Local Saints, Fair and Markets
Local fairs were generally held in the churchyard and associated with the feast of a saint; and brought gatherings of people from far distances to a holy shrine, giving opportunity for combining business with religious observances . The following are some more>> |
St George's Roman Catholic Church and a Fine Painting
The present church in Sansome Walk was built in 1829, the year of the Catholic Emancipation Act, on the site of an earlier chapel of 1764. The architect was Henry Rowe, the builder of the Shirehall. A still earlier chapel stood at the corner of Pierpoint more>> |
Saint Augustine's Oak
One of the most historic of meetings was that between Saint Augustine and the Bishop of the Britons in the summer of AD. 603. When the Romans left these shores, Britain was by no means abandoned to paganism. The Christian faith established in the days of more>> |
The Boundaries of the Worcester Diocese
The Boundaries of Mercia was at first co-extensive with the Diocese of Lichfield; the first four Bishops of Lichfield (from 655 to 675) are still recorded as Bishops of Mercia. They were attempting to rule from Lichfield which extended from Yorkshire to the more>> |
Rector in Penance at Kemerton
The Rev. Robery Wotton, Rector of Kemerton in the 16th century had to endure a long and humiliating penance. He was sentenced by Bishop Hooper to stand in his church, stripped to the waist, and bearing a horse's saddle on his back. The nature of his crime more>> |
The Enthronement of a Medieval Bishop of Worcester
The Enthronement of a Bishop in his Cathedral church serves as a formal introduction to the clergy and laity of his diocese. The Enthronement of Bishop William Gainsborough in 1302 seems to have been a strange affair, and not without discord. Before the days more>> |
A Penance ordered on a Sub-Deacon and his woman in 1303
Christian teaching was tactitly accepted as the basis of law. The control of the Church over its people and their morals, was complete. The Church not only taught, but punished when it thought necessary. Below are the deatils of a penance ordered in 1303, more>> |
A Penance ordered on Two Clerks of Droitwich
Two Clerks of Droitwich who reseisted arrest by the Bishop's ministers and the Archdeacon of Worcester. 1304 - 'Order to the Dean of Wych to absolve John Colleware and John Barnard, Clerks, from the sentence of excommunication for violence done in the church more>> |
Notes on the Reformation in Worcester
Among the manuscripts in the Bishop's Registry is one entitled Notitia Dioec Wigorn. It is written by the hand of Chancellor Price in about 1700, and records the changes in Worcester resulting from the Reformation. Extracts from the mauscript were published more>> |
Worcester Priors Mitred
All Worcester Priors were mitred. When a Prior walked in procession with the Bishop in the Cathedral, the Prior's crook pointed inward, the Bishop's outward, that distinguished their spheres of office. But if the See of Worcester fell vacant, the Prior automatically more>> |
High Street Public Houses
In High Street there were two sets of public houses. Opposite the Guildhall, at No 31, was The Golden Lion, and next door at 32, (with the entrance down an entry) was the Bull's Head. Near the Cathedral were the other two; the Stationer' Arms at 102, and more>> |
Miserrimus
In the cloisters of Worcester Cathedral is one of the most pathetic gravestones in the country. It marks a nameless grave, and has but one word on it: "Meserriums", a prayer for the unfortunate whose bones lie below. Wordsworth saw the stone and more>> |
The Anchorite of St. Nicholas
The old church of St . Nicholas was erected in the 12th century and part of the crypt and basement walls appear to date from that period. There exists a record of a female anchorite who attached herself to the east end in the 13th century. There were others more>> |
Mr. Ward's Playhouse, 1752 (Stourbridge)
The first record of a theatre at Stourbridge come's from Aris's Birmingham Gazette of 1752, with the announcement that the playhouse 'would shortly be open by Mr Ward'. This was the grandfather of Sarah Siddons, of the Ward Company of Comedians that played more>> |
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