CONTENTS.

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I.—Willenhall—Its Name and Antiquity

1

II.—The Battle of Wednesfield

5

III.—The Saxon Settlement

11

IV.—The Founding of Wulfruna’s Church, a.d. 996

17

V.—The Collegiate Establishment

22

VI.—Willenhall at the Norman Conquest (1066–1086)

27

VII.—A Chapel and a Chantry at Willenhall

32

VIII.—Willenhall in the Middle Ages

37

IX.—The Levesons and other Old Willenhall Families

41

X.—Willenhall Endowments at the Reformation

48

XI.—How the Reformation Affected Willenhall

52

XII.—Before the Reformation—and After

57

XIII.—A Century of Wars, Incursions, and Alarms (1640–1745)

65

XIV.—Litigation Concerning the Willenhall Prebend (1615–1702)

72

XV.—Willenhall Struggling to be a Free Parish

77

XVI.—Dr. Richard Wilkes, of Willenhall (1690–1760)

82

XVII.—Willenhall “Spaw”

90

XVIII.—The Benefice

95

XIX.—How a Flock Chose its own Shepherd

103

XX.—The Election of 1894, and Since

110

XXI.—Willenhall Church Endowments

116

XXII.—The Church Charities: the Daughter Churches

129

XXIII.—The Fabric of the Church

135

XXIV.—Dissent, Nonconformity, and Philanthrophy

143

XXV.—Manorial Government

148

XXVI.—Modern Self-Government

153

XXVII.—The Town of Locks and Keys

158

XXVIII.—Willenhall in Fiction

167

XXIX.—Bibliography

175

XXX.—Topography

179

XXXI.—Old Families and Names of Note

184

XXXII.—Manners and Customs

187

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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